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Alliant Insurance Services Promotes Hagemeier to Executive VP

Specialty insurance brokerage firm, Alliant Insurance Services, has promoted senior vice president Todd Hagemeier to executive vice president and managing director of Alliant Healthcare Solutions, the firm’s national healthcare practice. He is based in Dallas. Hagemeier, who joined Alliant in …

Oklahoma’s Gooszen & Associates Joins SIAA

The Strategic Insurance Agency Alliance (SIAA) announced it signed a new member agency based in Oklahoma during the month of June. Gooszen & Associates Insurance of Oklahoma City, Okla., is among 25 new member agencies that signed with SIAA during …

Texas-Based LevelFirst Adds Harris as Senior Broker

LevelFirst, a wholesale insurance broker and managing general agency based in Dallas, Texas, announced that Lawana Harris has joined the firm as a senior broker. Harris brings 27 years of insurance experience, with 12 of those in excess and surplus …

Iowa Egg Farms Settle Suit Over Salmonella Recalls

The Iowa egg producers blamed for a 2010 salmonella outbreak have settled a lawsuit brought by a California distributor that lost profits from the foodborne illnesses and the resulting product recalls, court records show. Quality Egg and Hillandale Farms reached …

N.J. Post-Sandy Buyout Offers Start in South River, Sayreville

New Jersey is making the first post-Hurricane Sandy buyout offers to South River and Sayreville homeowners this week, Governor Chris Christie said.The state plans to spend $39 million of federal funds on the first 129 homes, Christie said in South …

MTA Plans Catastrophe Bond Sale Linked to Storm Damage, S&P Says

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans to use bonds designed to help New York City’s subway operator guard against storm surge damage after suffering $4.8 billion in wreckage from Hurricane Sandy.The largest U.S. transit agency will buy protection from MetroCat Re …

SIAA Signs 11 Midwest Agencies in June

The Strategic Insurance Agency Alliance (SIAA) announced that among the 25 new member agencies that signed with the group during June, 11 are located in the Midwest. New SIAA members based in the Midwest are: Grand Slam Insurance Agency of …

IMA Names Bovasso Director of Public Company and Large Risk in Colorado

IMA Inc. named Brian Bovasso director of the its public company and large risk practice. This is a new practice that will be part of IMA’s Executive Risk Solutions. Bovasso will lead the continued development and expansion of IMA’s executive …

New Jersey Man Admits to Running Vehicle Theft Ring

A New Jersey man has admitted to supervising an auto theft ring that authorities say stole over 100 vehicles worth a total of more than $550,000. The Attorney General’s office says 33-year-old Jose D. Lopez of South Amboy pleaded guilty …

N.Y. Approves NYCIRB’s Revised Workers’ Comp Loss Cost Filing

The New York Department of Financial Services on Monday approved a revised loss cost filing from the New York Compensation Insurance Rating Board (NYCIRB) with an effective date of Oct. 1, 2013. As a result, policyholders in New York State …

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