June 4, 2015
Lake Mary, Fla.-based AssuredPartners Inc. has acquired CoLiance Risk Advisors through its AssuredPartners of Indiana subsidiary. The Indianapolis-based agency will operate under the local leadership of Managing Director Judd Feldman. CoLiance is a full service commercial property and casualty and …
June 4, 2015
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration said Tuesday it has formally applied to take over the operation of Pennsylvania’s health insurance marketplace as the Democrat seeks a bulwark against the potential loss of health insurance subsidies for hundreds of thousands of …
June 4, 2015
Hurricane Blanca weakened slightly off Mexico’s Pacific coast on Thursday but could restrengthen as it continues moving toward tourist resorts at the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Blanca, the second hurricane to …
June 4, 2015
Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s catastrophe model development team, has released its latest Global Catastrophe Recap report for the month of May. The report highlights the “powerful thunderstorms” that caused “major flooding across the U.S. states of Texas and Oklahoma during …
June 4, 2015
The husband and the son of a pregnant woman who died in a rollover crash seek up to $18 million in a wrongful death lawsuit filed against three businesses, including the maker of a tire that blew during an Oregon …
June 4, 2015
Hub International Ltd. has acquired the assets of New Mexico-based Shofner, Lynch & Shulse. SLS will become part of the operations of Hub International New Mexico, which is based in Albuquerque. SLS will maintain its operations in Alamogordo, marking Hub …
June 4, 2015
More than 6.6 million homes on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts are at risk of hurricane storm surge with a total reconstruction cost value estimated to be nearly $1.5 trillion, according to a report released today. Property analytics and data …
June 4, 2015
Ascot Underwriting Ltd., the London-based Lloyd’s managing agency, has appointed Scott Beall as chief underwriting officer of casualty facultative and Lex Smart as senior vice president of Ascot Fac. The team will report to Rory Cline, president of Ascot Fac, …
June 4, 2015
EXOR, the Turin, Italy-based investment company and a suitor in the ongoing takeover battle of PartnerRe, filed a lawsuit on June 1 in the Supreme Court of Bermuda, seeking to obtain PartnerRe’s list of shareholders in order to make sure …
June 4, 2015
The owner of a ship that capsized on China’s Yangtze River with 456 people aboard has been ordered to suspend operations of a second boat and carry out safety probes on its entire fleet, an official at the Yangtze river …