Pete Anhalt has been promoted to senior vice president of consumer products for Sentry Insurance. Anhalt will be based in Madison, Wi. He will oversee specialty auto, motorcycle, and standard consumer products. Anhalt began his career at Viking Insurance in …
September is National Preparedness Month, and choosing the well-remembered Sept. 11 date to launch a series of preparedness webinars may have been a good way to drive home the “preparedness” message. On Wednesday Agility Recovery and the United States Small …
The Vermont Department of Emergency Management and Homeland Security is urging people to be prepared for unexpected emergencies. September is National Preparedness Month and Gov. Peter Shumlin has urged Vermonters to prepare themselves for potential disasters. A proclamation signed by …
Risk Strategies Co., a national insurance and benefits brokerage and risk management firm based in Boston, launched a new professional practices group concentrated in California. The group specializes in providing professional liability and errors and omissions insurance, property/casualty insurance solutions …
The new World Trade Center complex is taking shape; The 4 World Trade Center, a 72-story building at the southeast corner of the site being developed by Silverstein Properties, is scheduled to be completed this November and open its doors …
A Jasper County, Miss., man has been indicted on charges of workers’ compensation fraud. Attorney General Jim Hood said 55-year-old David Myrick Cox, of Louin, surrendered to investigators with his office’s Insurance Integrity Unit at the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office. …
PricewaterhouseCoopers US (PwC US) announced that Henry Essert joined PwC’s Actuarial and Insurance Management Solutions (AIMS) practice as a managing director in its New York office. In his new role, Essert will lead the insurance risk practice, where he will …
A north-central Illinois man was sentenced to 12 years in prison after Henry County prosecutors say he was huffing chemicals before a high-speed rollover crash that killed three teenagers. Morgan Blakey was convicted of reckless homicide and aggravated driving under …
The Army general who won acclaim for helping restore order in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina is backing a flood control board’s lawsuit against oil and gas companies. Retired Lt. Gen. Russell Honore (AHN’-ur-ay) endorsed the lawsuit in a full-page …
BP Plc faces the first of almost 48,000 toxic exposure claims from neighbors of a Texas refinery who say they’ll give the billions of dollars in punitive damages they’re seeking to charity if they win at trial. The residents claim …
