Los Angeles, Calif.-based Topa Insurance Group named Anthony Manzitto executive vice president and chief underwriting officer. Manzitto will be accountable for profit and growth goals, reinsurance, marketing, product pricing, underwriting rules, processes and efficiencies, new product development, programs systems efficiencies …
The fire season has been relatively mild across the West this year, but officials in New Mexico and Arizona are doing what they can to rein in the use of fireworks given the dry conditions plaguing both states. New Mexico …
A moderate earthquake struck in Arizona near the New Mexico line that was widely felt across the region, but no injuries or damages were immediately reported. County sheriffs’ offices on both sides of the state line reported receiving numerous phone …
Hub International Insurance Services Inc. named Jay Corbett as a senior vice president of the commercial division based in Folsom, Calif. In addition to his commercial brokerage production role, Corbett will serve as the site manager in the Folsom office. …
Wood Gutmann & Bogart Insurance Brokers has hired Erik Johansson to head its new division, Performance Bonding Surety & Insurance Brokerage L.P. Johansson will serve as president of the division. He has written bonds on five continents, and has more …
USG Insurance Services Inc., a national wholesaler and managing general agent, named Jenny O’Brien as production manager in commercial lines for the Irvine, Calif. office. O’Brien joined USG in 2012 as a producer/broker. She began her career in the insurance …
New Mexico regulators have denied a temporary operating permit for ridesharing company Uber. The Albuquerque Journal reported that the Public Regulation Commission voted 3-2 on Wednesday to withhold the permit from Uber Technologies. Commissioners say they could not grant the …
The Seattle Catholic Archdiocese says it has agreed to pay $12.1 million to settle 30 sexual abuse claims filed by men who say they were abused decades ago at two archdiocesan schools operated by the Christian Brothers religious order. The …
Dozens of property owners in central Arizona are suing the state, saying it failed miserably in its management of a wildfire that killed 19 Hotshots. The lawsuit filed in Maricopa County Superior Court seeks unspecified damages for emotional distress, property …
Joel Paredes Saldana, 22, owner of Lightning Auto Body in Riverside County, was arrested Wednesday as California Department of Insurance detectives and multiple allied agencies swept up at least 19 co-conspirators associated with an organized insurance fraud crime ring. Those …
