Arkansas News

Liberty Mutual Realigns Agency Companies to Welcome Ohio Casualty

Boston-based Liberty Mutual Group finalized its acquisition of Ohio Casualty Corp. on Friday, Aug. 24, 2007 and immediately announced a realignment of its $5.9 billion net premium regional agency company organization to make room for Ohio Casualty and its $1.4 …

Former Ark. Insurance Agent Sentenced in Theft Case

Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Julie Benafield Bowman announced former insurance agent John Phillip Middleton, a Van Buren resident with an office in Fort Smith, has been sentenced by Judge James Cox, Sebastian County Circuit Court, to twenty years in the Arkansas …

News Currents

Too close for comfort Pro teams grapple with risks of keeping fans close to action Tiger Woods had a rough weekend at the British Open in July, and so too did Jennifer Wilson, the 63-year-old fan who required two stitches …

My New Markets

Youth recreation programs Nuts & Bolts: Markel Insurance Co. is offering coverage for youth recreation programs and camps. Coverage includes general liability, umbrella, sexual abuse/molestation, directors and officers, child abduction, special events, professional liability, property, key employee replacement, auto, crime, …

Too close for comfort

Pro teams grapple with risks of keeping fans close to action Tiger Woods had a rough weekend at the British Open in July, and so too did Jennifer Wilson, the 63-year-old fan who required two stitches to her bloodied head …

My New Markets

Youth recreation programs Nuts & Bolts: Markel Insurance Co. is offering coverage for youth recreation programs and camps. Coverage includes general liability, umbrella, sexual abuse/molestation, directors and officers, child abduction, special events, professional liability, property, key employee replacement, auto, crime, …

Mo. Attorney General Candidate Pushes for Child Product Safety Law

Democratic attorney general candidate Margaret Donnelly on Wednesday called for Missouri to enact a children’s product safety law that could penalize business that don’t quickly inform consumers of product recalls. Donnelly wants Missouri to model its measure on one in …

IISI Offers Courier/Package Delivery Program

Innovative Insurance Solutions, Inc., an insurance advisor specializing in transportation risks, has launched a new program specifically for couriers/package delivery and others in the expedited local delivery industry. IISI is the exclusive program manager, with the authority to quote, bind …

Texas Company Voluntarily Recalls Possibly Tainted Sandwiches

A Longview company has voluntarily recalled more than 4,200 Cloud’s tuna salad and egg salad sandwiches – some of them distributed in Arkansas – because of the possibility they could be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. That type of contamination can …

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