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Wanted: Young Insurance Professionals to Help Recruit Others

Insurance industry executives and groups working to attract millennials to the sector are now actively targeting their younger colleagues to help get the word out. On Dec. 2, the recruiting initiative held a webinar designed to appeal to younger property/casualty …

Transportation Insurer National Interstate Promotes Skuggen, Adds AIG’s Blankenship

National Interstate Insurance Co. announced the promotion of George Skuggen to senior vice president and the hiring of Steve Blankenship as vice president, Passenger Transportation. In his new role, Skuggen will oversee National Interstate’s Truck and Environmental, National Accounts and …

Vanliner Insurance Promotes Grimm to President

Vanliner Insurance Co. said that Matt Grimm has been promoted to president of the insurance provider for the moving and storage industry. Prior to assuming the role of president at Vanliner, Grimm served as vice president, Passenger Transportation, at National …

Massachusetts Women Sue After Being Hit by Drone at New Hampshire Event

Two women are suing a groom and the event company that ran his wedding reception after they allege he flew a drone that hit them in the head at the New Hampshire event. Kneena Ellis, of Seabrook, and Kelly Eaton …

Appeals Court Allows Suit Against Firm in Pennsylvania Flood Deaths

An appeals court has cleared the way for refiling of a lawsuit against an engineering firm in the deaths of four people killed in flash flooding in Pittsburgh more than five years ago. Judge R. Stanton Wettick Jr. earlier dismissed …

Maine-Based MEMIC Group Promotes Sabatino

Workers’ compensation specialist The MEMIC Group, headquartered in Portland, Maine, has promoted Deb Sabatino to the position of director of human resources. In this role, she is responsible for planning and managing human resources operations and programs. Sabatino has more …

Q&A with FEMA’s Fugate: Capitalism, Socialism and Disaster Mitigation

In January, Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator Craig Fugate gave states a choice for dealing with climate change. Option A: Do nothing about the rising toll of extreme weather, and hope Congress’s threats to restrict disaster aid — by raising …

Chubb Appoints Updyke to Lead Commercial Insurance Operations

Chubb, the world’s largest publicly traded property and casualty insurance company, has appointed Jeffrey Updyke as regional manager for the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Regions of the company’s commercial insurance division in North America. In this role, Updyke will be based …

D&O Prices Down, Auto Up in Q3; Other Commercial Lines Stable

Price decreases accelerated for directors and officers insurance in the 2016 third quarter, a period during which commercial insurance prices generally remained flat once again overall. The latest Willis Towers Watson’s Commercial Lines Insurance Pricing Survey showed prices charged on …

Some Bangladesh Bank Insiders Helped Hackers Steal $81M: Investigator

Some Bangladesh central bank officials deliberately exposed its computer systems and enabled hackers to steal $81 million from its account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in February, a top police investigator in Dhaka told Reuters on Monday. …

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