Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Christopher Swift was named to the additional post of chairman in a transition that occurred earlier than the insurer had initially planned. Swift, 53, replaces former CEO Liam McGee, 60, as chairman, …
Rarely do any insurance practitioners, even hard core ones, undertake to read an entire policy. Generally, they are seeking a specific answer or researching a problem, undertakings that require them to review only individual parts of the coverage form and/or …
Cook Maran & Associates, an insurance broker with offices in New York and New Jersey, has hired Meaghan Sullivan and Caetlyn Fallon as client advisors. Sullivan and Fallon will both work in Cook Maran’s Personal Insurance division. Sullivan is based …
A disabled New Jersey teenager’s lawsuit against Six Flags Great Adventure over access to the amusement park’s rides will go forward after a judge declined to dismiss the action. Joseph Masci and his parents filed the suit in 2012 after …
Duffy Insurance Agency, a family-owned, independent agency with offices in Lynn, Peabody and Gloucester, Massachusetts, announced its acquisition of Connolly Insurance Agency, a family-owned agency in Peabody, Massachusetts. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Connolly Insurance will move its …
The Louisiana Department of Insurance (LDI) has launched a new website aimed at providing improved services to consumers, insurance agents and other groups regulated by the department. According to the department’s announcement, among the features of the new website are …
As anyone who has grown up around snow knows, part of the fun of sledding is the risk of soaring off a jump or careening around a tree. But faced with the potential bill from sledding injuries, some Iowa cities …
Survivors of a fire at a senior-living complex near San Antonio that killed five people say false alarms were routine at the 11-story building. Residents of the Wedgwood Senior Living apartments told the San Antonio Express-News in a story published …
Brown & Brown Inc., through its subsidiary, Texas Security General Insurance Agency Inc., has acquired Hall-Wright General Agency Inc. (Hall-Wright) and related affiliate companies. With origins dating back to 1971, Hall-Wright is a managing general agency with annual revenues of …
CNA announced that its $2.9 billion Specialty Lines business, specializing in professional and management liability, financial and other specialized property and casualty insurance products and services, will begin offering specialty products in Canada effective January 1, 2015. John Hennessy, president …
