Merrilee Robbins was named senior account executive in The Buckner Co.’s trucking insurance division. Robbins will work from the firm’s Ogden, Utah officce. Robbins has 23 years in the insurance industry, and 16 years as a trucking specialist. Salt Lake …
Swiss Reinsurance Co. and Lloyd’s of London, the world’s oldest insurance market, are among insurance companies being probed by New York’s insurance regulator about their compliance with an expanded Iran sanctions law. The state Department of Financial Services is asking …
La Crescenta, Calif.-based Monarch E & S Insurance named Stefanie McLeod assistant vice president of personal lines heading up the personal liability division. McLeod has been with Monarch for nearly 11 years. Before Monarch she was with Beitler Commercial Real …
U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) has asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency to review rules that resulted in insurance coverage denials for some Superstorm Sandy victims. Gillibrand’s letter last week came after reports that the National Flood Insurance Program is …
Out of a tiny, green shack on a parking lot in an industrial area south of San Francisco International Airport, three teenagers are trying to change the airport car rental business. To do it, all they need are your cars, …
Firefighters are nervous, and ranchers and farmers are hurting as Malheur County enters summer in drought. Gov. John Kitzhaber has issued drought declarations for four Oregon counties, including Malheur, the Vermont-size southeast corner of the state. The Oregonian reported that …
Nearly 290,000 jobs will become available in Idaho by 2020, a new study says. Georgetown University’s Center for Education and the Workforce in a study finds the fastest-growing occupations will be health care support, health care professional and technical positions, …
Liberty Mutual Insurance recently announced S. Colin Dowling will lead the company’s public affairs office in Washington, D.C., as vice president for federal affairs. Dowling brings extensive public affairs experience to Liberty Mutual, having held senior management positions at Travelers, …
Brown & Brown Inc. said it has completed the previously-announced acquisition of Beecher Carlson Holdings Inc. In May, Florida-based Brown & Brown Inc. said it would buy the retail brokerage, program management and captive management business of Georgia-based Beecher Carlson …
The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) elected Don Whitaker, president and owner of Whitaker Insurance Associates Inc. in San Antonio, to serve as chair for 2013-2014 during IIAT’s 116th Annual Conference and Trade Show in Dallas. Whitaker’s term begins …
