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EPIC adds Benefits Consultant Locricchio in San Francisco

EPIC (Edgewood Partners Insurance Center), a retail property, casualty and employee benefits insurance brokerage, has added Alisa Locricchio as an employee benefits consultant in its San Francisco office. Her responsibilities will include all aspects of developing and growing business including …

Florida Insurance Council Names New President

The Florida Insurance Council¹s (FIC) Executive Board announced today that it has selected Cecil Pearce as the trade association¹s new president. He will succeed Guy Marvin, who announced his retirement earlier this summer. Pearce joins FIC from the American Insurance …

Equity Risk Partners Names Fitzpatrick Director-Executive Liability

San Francisco-based Equity Risk Partners (ERP), an insurance brokerage and consulting firm focusedon the needs of the private equity industry, has added Joseph Fitzpatrick as director – executive liability. He will focus his efforts on the firm’s financial institutions practice …

European Life Insurers Hope Accounting Change Will Woo Investors

British life insurers reporting half-year results this month plan to simplify their notoriously complex financial statements in a move that could lift their flagging shares. Standard Life, Britain’s fourth-biggest life insurer, two weeks ago became the latest to say it …

McLane Joins GCube Insurance Services as Senior VP

Newport Beach, Calif.-based GCube Insurance Services Inc., a global insurer of renewable energy technologies, announced today that John McLane has joined the company as senior vice president. McLane will be responsible for growing GCube’s renewable energy business held by utilities …

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires Houston’s Benefits Unlimited

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Benefits Unlimited Inc. in Houston, Texas. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in 1994, Benefits Unlimited offers employee benefits consulting and brokerage services for its Texas clients. The firm specializes in …

Marsh Revenue Up 9% in Q2

Global insurance broker Marsh’s revenue in the second quarter of 2010 rose 9 percent to $1.2 billion from the same period in 2009. Revenue growth in international operations was 6 percent, reflecting 3 percent growth in Europe, the Middle East …

August 25th 2010 Lunch Discussion: Workers’ Compensation in a Changing Environment and a Challenging Economy

San Diego – The Insurance Brokers & Agents of San Diego along with the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation of San Diego will be hosting a lunch discussion on August 25th, 2010 with guest speaker Jan Frank, President and COO of …

Conn. AG Barred from Releasing Agents’ Commission Data

The Connecticut Supreme Court said state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal cannot publicize confidential business documents obtained under subpoena in an antitrust probe, prompting him to say he might try to have the ruling overturned. Monday’s unanimous decision reversed a Feb. …

New Jersey Agent Pleads Guilty to $300K in Thefts

A New Jersey insurance broker has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $300,000 in premium payments from his clients, according to the state’s attorney general. Under a plea agreement with prosecutors, the state will recommend a five-year prison sentence for …