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Gregg Effner has joined Main Street America Group as assistant vice president of distribution management. Effner, who has 30 years of property/casualty industry experience, will be based at the company’s corporate headquarters in Jacksonville, Fla., and report to Doug Eden, …

My New Markets

Security Guards Nuts & Bolts: Brownyard Group’s program for security guard firms has been expanded to include limits up to $5 million. This broad coverage includes: general liability, excess/umbrella liability, workers’ compensation, property, auto and first and third party dishonesty …

My New Markets

Security Guards Nuts & Bolts: Brownyard Group’s program for security guard firms has been expanded to include limits up to $5 million. This broad coverage includes: general liability, excess/umbrella liability, workers’ compensation, property, auto and first and third party dishonesty …

Allstate awards cities free gas for safe driving records

For the second straight year, an insurance study has found that Sioux Falls, S.D. has the safest drivers in the nation. Researchers with Allstate Insurance Co. analyzed two years of internal crash data to calculate the chance that drivers in …

Gov. Riley halts hike in Alabama auto liability limits

Alabama Gov. Bob Riley decided to veto legislation that would have raised the minimum liability insurance limits that motorists must buy because he was concerned the legislation didn’t give policyholders time to comply. Riley’s communications director, Jeff Emerson, said the …

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Gov. Riley halts hike in Alabama auto liability limits Alabama Gov. Bob Riley decided to veto legislation that would have raised the minimum liability insurance limits that motorists must buy because he was concerned the legislation didn’t give policyholders time …

Declarations

Courageous “Nine brave, heroic, courageous firefighters of the city of Charleston have perished fighting fire in a most courageous and fearless manner, carrying out their duties. To all of their loved ones, our heart goes out to them.” — Charleston …

Figures

27 The number arrested by Florida officials in an ongoing investigation dubbed “Operation TGIF” because the group perpetrated staged accidents on Fridays. The staged accident ring billed auto insurers more than $300,000 in fraudulent Personal Injury Protection claims, according to …

It Figures

27 The number arrested by Florida officials in an ongoing investigation dubbed “Operation TGIF” because the group perpetrated staged accidents on Fridays. The staged accident ring billed auto insurers more than $300,000 in fraudulent Personal Injury Protection claims, according to …

My New Markets

Security Guards Nuts & Bolts: Brownyard Group’s program for security guard firms has been expanded to include limits up to $5 million. This broad coverage includes: general liability, excess/umbrella liability, workers’ compensation, property, auto and first and third party dishonesty …