PMC Insurance Group has named Tim Viccari regional vice president in the West region. Viccari will be responsible for growth in the region focusing on agency development, market relationships and overseeing the firm’s new business underwriting team. He comes to …
The New York Insurance Association (NYIA) is urging the New York state government to stop its practice of diverting assessments levied on New York-domiciled insurers to fund non-insurance programs and operations. NYIA said this month marks the five years since …
Florida’s insurance regulator’s tenure could be coming to an end after more than a decade as the newly re-elected governor looks to shake up his administration by replacing the heads of state agencies. Rumors have been circulating that Insurance Commissioner …
Allied Insurance Brokers, a retail property/casualty insurance broker in Pittsburgh, has promoted Jeff McGeary to president. McGeary will also be responsible for Allied’s underwriting and wholesale division known as Ascinsure Specialty Risk. McGeary has been with Allied for over 25 …
Nearly a decade after Missouri last limited some civil lawsuit awards, Republican lawmakers are organizing to reinstate caps overturned by the state’s highest court. Businesses can now face lawsuits with unlimited punitive damages in civil injury lawsuits after the Missouri …
A state group says a steep increase in earthquakes in south-central Kansas likely is caused by the disposal of waste water from an oil and gas extraction process often called fracking. The state recorded more than 120 earthquakes last year, …
The U.S. Geological Survey has recorded a 4.1 magnitude earthquake near Cherokee in north-central Oklahoma. The USGS reports the quake occurred at 4:19 a.m. on Jan. 21 about nine miles east of Cherokee in Alfalfa County — about 95 miles …
Scrap metal dealers are getting help combatting theft from a new data-sharing arrangement through the Ohio Courts Network. Under a December agreement between the Ohio Supreme Court and the Ohio Department of Public Safety, a “Do Not Buy from Convicted …
Wildfires scorched thousands of acres of land in central Oklahoma on Jan. 18, prompting evacuations, damaging buildings and forcing the closure of busy Interstate 35 in Logan County for more than an hour. Two fires began near Guthrie in the …
Police in Lake Charles, La., say they have broken up a crime ring that would scout banks for people leaving with money, follow them, then burglarize their unattended vehicles. The American Press reports Lake Charles Police Chief Don Dixon discussed …
