Matt Coleman, president-commercial lines of Denver’s Van Gilder Insurance Corp., has been elected treasurer of Assurex Global. Coleman has served as a director of Assurex Global since 2005 and was elected as an officer by the board at its meeting …
Robert E. Coates Jr., an insurance broker in Pasadena, Calif., for more than 50 years and resident of La Canada Flintridge died Saturday, Nov. 4. A former blimp pilot for the Navy, he joined Jimmy Ingham and Gleeson “Tige” Payne …
The Phoenix branch office of wholesale insurance broker Worldwide Facilities Inc. has relocated to a larger office. The company signed a five-year lease with Parkway Properties LP for 4,200 square feet of corporate space at Squaw Peak Corporate Center, 7740 …
Encino, Calif.-based NAS Insurance Services has a newly designed Web site to make it easier to access its insurance products, with downloadable policy form and applications, such as EPLI, tenant discrimination and others. The Web address is: www.nasinsurance.com.
Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has fined Verizon Wireless Services LLC of Bedminster, N.J., $25,000 for failing to sell service contracts under its legal corporate name, a violation of state insurance law. State law requires the company to conduct business …
Los Angeles-based Mercury General Corp. announced that George Joseph, CEO and chairman of the board, will resign as CEO effective Jan. 1, 2007. The Board of Directors has appointed Gabriel Tirador to serve as president and CEO at that time. …
Liberty Mutual Property, a business unit of Liberty Mutual Group, opened a new office in Orange County, Calif., in response to what it’s calling a growing book of middle-market commercial property business in Southern California. The office includes a team …
Balboa Insurance Group, which specializes in lender-placed auto and hazard insurance, added three industry veterans to its staff: Mark DeLoach, Gary Flowers, and David Lipps — who have experience in helping financial institutions manage their risks. DeLoach, will be executive …
Casino mogul Steve Wynn lost $139 million but got to keep one of his favorite paintings when he accidentally poked a hole in a Picasso last month. Now it will cost Wynn $85,000 to repair the damage to the art …
Amtrak trains returned to a normal schedule through the Sierra Nevada mountains Saturday, two days after the fatal derailment of a runaway maintenance train spilled thousands of gallons of diesel and hydraulic fluid and damaged 600 feet of track in …
