Merrill, Wis.-based Church Mutual Insurance Co. and its subsidiaries CM Vantage Specialty Insurance Co. and CM Regent Insurance Co. have earned a “positive” outlook for long-term issuer credit rating by A.M. Best. A.M. Best upgraded the long-term issuer credit rating …
The bedbugs are back at a South Carolina fire station one month after an outbreak at four stations. The Charleston Fire Department said in a news release last week that bedbugs have been found at one of the stations that …
Tennis star Venus Williams legally entered an intersection but was cut off by another car, setting off a chain of events that seconds later resulted in a fatal crash with a third car, police say video released Friday shows. The …
Managing general agency and surplus lines insurance broker, J.M. Wilson, has hired Joni Linhart as transportation underwriter in their Carmel, Indiana, office. Linhart is responsible for quoting new and renewal transportation risks, and serving independent insurance agents in Indiana. She …
Texas struggled through its driest year in history in 2011. Four years later was its wettest ever. The Mississippi River rose to all-time-high flood levels in 2011. In 2012, its second-lowest. After a six-year drought that made agricultural irrigation a …
A federal appeals court ruled that Evanston Insurance Co. doesn’t owe a $500,000 settlement that a Florida spa owner agreed to pay to a woman who suffered a stroke during a massage. The decision, issued last month in an unpublished …
Republicans expressed increasing pessimism on Sunday about the prospects for the healthcare bill in the U.S. Senate aimed at rolling back Obamacare as lawmakers prepared to return from a week-long recess. One prominent Republican lawmaker, Senator John McCain, said he …
Editor’s Note: This is the second of two articles by Burand based on his most recent 50-page whitepaper, State of the P&C Insurance Industry 2017. The whitepaper is available from Insurance Journal’s Research and Trends division here. The first article …
The Buckner Co. has named Keith Braxton, the former President of Buckner of Colorado, vice president of acquisitions and development. Braxton will be responsible for helping the organization grow externally through identifying and developing growth opportunities through strategic acquisitions, book …
Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. has named Stephen Glazier vice president and casualty loss control specialist. Glazier is based at Woodruff-Sawyer’s Denver, Colo. office. He will serve as a casualty loss control consultant across the enterprise, working with clients on loss control …
