January 14, 2015
State Treasurer John Kennedy says audits of life insurance company policies have uncovered more than $31 million in unclaimed property for beneficiaries in the past eight years. The Treasury Department discovered the benefits after comparing the outstanding policies of a …
January 14, 2015
Prosecutors say a former insurance agent in Kansas has been sentenced to 42 months in prison for stealing from his clients. The U.S. attorney’s office said that 43-year-old Jason Matthew Pennington of Wichita pleaded guilty to two counts of wire …
January 14, 2015
A former top deputy of Republican Gov.-elect Greg Abbott is taking over the Texas Department of Insurance. David Mattax was named commissioner on Jan. 12. He is currently a deputy attorney general who took the lead defending Republican-drawn Texas voting …
January 14, 2015
A DuPont and Co pesticide plant where four people died in a gas leak in November had been cited for emissions violations by a state agency on several occasions before the accident, the Houston Chronicle reported. The newspaper cited public …
January 14, 2015
Fidelis Group Holdings LLC (FGH) and its subsidiary, Continental Underwriters Ltd., a have formed an ocean cargo division and named Doug Fischer and Crystal Prout as managing directors of the unit. The new ocean cargo division will be based out …
January 14, 2015
Insurance brokerage and risk management firm Integro has promoted Ethan Crain to Boston operations leader, and hired Peter Lavery as a principal in the Boston office.
January 14, 2015
A Virginia judge has ordered a new trial on damages in a coal contract dispute between Massey Energy and the owner of three defunct coal companies. In May 2014, a jury in Buchanan County, Virginia, awarded $4 million to Hugh …
January 14, 2015
Stateline Insurance & Financial Services, an independent agency in East Providence, Rhode Island, has hired Kellie Dougherty as commercial lines representative.
January 14, 2015
Three executives charged in last January’s West Virginia chemical spill have pleaded not guilty in federal court. The pleas came a day after an FBI affidavit was unsealed, saying Freedom Industries knew about critical flaws at its Charleston plant more …
January 14, 2015
The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation has approved the removal of up to 93,000 personal residential policies and 500 commercial residential polices from Citizens Property Insurance Corp. as part of the state’s ongoing effort to reduce the number of policies …