April 4, 2017
More than 40 years after the theft of Norman Rockwell’s Boy Asleep with Hoe – also known as Lazy Bones or Taking a Break – the painting has been returned to the family of its original owners following a ceremony …
April 4, 2017
QBE North America announced two executive appointments in the Property & Casualty business. Jamie Luce will lead the Commercial Insurance business as senior vice president. He will oversee all of the QBE North America commercial business. Luce built middle market …
April 4, 2017
Faced with too much trash in one of the world’s biggest – and arguably dirtiest – subway systems, New York transit officials tried an unusual social experiment. They removed garbage bins from 39 out of the more than 400 stations, …
April 4, 2017
Cook Maran & Associates (Cook Maran), one of New York and New Jersey’s largest insurance brokers, will acquire Gundermann & Gundermann (Gundermann), a third-generation, family-owned company that’s grown into a top 25 New York insurer since it was founded in …
April 4, 2017
Marianna Wilson has been hired to serve as professional liability director for national accounts for the Big ‘I’ Advantage program of the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America. The organization created the position to service and expand the program, …
April 4, 2017
Paragon Insurance Holdings LLC (Paragon), an Avon, Conn.-based multi-line specialty program manager, has added Justin Faust to the Paragon executive management team as Chief Financial Officer. “Justin will lead Paragon’s efforts to enhance its rapid organic expansion through the acquisition …
April 4, 2017
The State Corporation Commission’s Bureau of Insurance (Bureau) in Virginia has named Julie S. Blauvelt deputy commissioner of its Life and Health Division. In this capacity, she oversees a staff that reviews insurance policy rates and forms, performs market conduct …
April 4, 2017
American International Group Inc.’s chairman reaffirmed support for the course charted by Peter Hancock, even after the CEO announced he was stepping down because of insufficient investor backing. Chairman Doug Steenland, in his annual letter Monday, said that the board …
April 4, 2017
Mercedes-Benz owner Daimler and supplier Robert Bosch are teaming up to develop self-driving cars in an alliance aimed at accelerating the production of “robo-taxis.” The pact between the world’s largest maker of premium cars and the world’s largest automotive supplier …
April 4, 2017
PERILS AG, the independent Zurich-based company that provides industry-wide catastrophe insurance data, has released the 2017 update of the PERILS Industry Exposure Database (IED). The updated database is composed of more than 200,000 individual data entries defining property sums insured …