The director of the West Virginia Governor’s Highway Safety Program says arrests for driving under the influence increased in the past year, contradicting earlier reports. The Charleston Gazette reported that Highway Safety Director Bob Tipton said that 2011 produced about …
Why do some great ideas fail and others succeed? The unique innovations pioneered by someone like Apple CEO Steve Jobs may have less to do with “out of the box” creativity than with mastering—and overcoming—a set of fundamental constraints that …
A New York court has ruled that a worker taking a short break does not constitute an interruption of employment, thus a worker injured during such a break is still entitled to workers’ comp benefits. The Appellate Division of the …
St. Petersburg, Fla.-based LIG Marine Managers is opening a new office in Philadelphia. The office will cover businesses from the states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. The office will be headed by Richard Zolty, who …
Exceptional Risk Advisors, a Lloyds’ of London managing general underwriter in Mahwah, N.J., appointed Chris Lack to head up its sports and entertainment division. Lack will lead Exceptional Risk Advisors’ sports insurance division and assist the executive team in guiding …
Global reinsurance broker U.S. RE Corp. appointed reinsurance veteran James Nelson as senior vice president. Nelson is a reinsurance executive with more than 30 years of experience. He served more than 30 years at Guy Carpenter, where he rose from …
PSA Insurance & Financial Services acquired the Baltimore office of San Mateo, Calif.-based Edgewood Partners Insurance Center (EPIC), a provider of risk management and insurance services. Insurance veteran Craig Routson and Brian Marx, who have been working at the EPIC’s …
Digital Insurance, an employee benefits agency in Atlanta, acquired Strategic Employee Benefits Services (SEBS) of Virginia. SEBS, which has offices in Richmond, Charlottesville and Roanoke, will now operate under the banner of Digital Benefit Advisors (DBA), a division of Digital …
Philadelphia Insurance Companies announced three promotions: Sean Sweeney to president and chief operating officer; Robert O’Leary to executive vice president and chief marketing officer; and John Glomb to executive vice president and chief underwriting officer. Sweeney has been with Philadelphia …
New York financial regulators are reportedly investigating several major banks to find out whether they fraudulently steered homeowners into more expensive home insurance. According to The New York Times, the office of Benjamin Lawsky, the superintendent of New York State’s …
