Charlie Adams and Angela James have joined the RT Specialty property team in Orange County, Calif. Each brings more than 20 years of experience in the excess and surplus property marketplace. Their expertise in course of construction risks and large …
The tragic gas pipeline explosion in a San Francisco suburb has shed light on a problem usually kept underground: Communities have expanded over pipes built decades earlier when no one lived there. Utilities have been under pressure for years to …
Scores of attorneys will jam a federal courtroom today to argue for almost immediate access to emails and other documents from BP Plc and its business partners as the legal fight over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill heats up. …
Following a gas line explosion in San Bruno, Calif., that damaged more than 120 homes, destroyed 15 acres and left seven dead, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) announced the creation of the “Rebuild San Bruno Fund,” which will make …
New Jersey lawmakers have advanced a bill that would impose heftier fines for talking or texting while driving. The bill approved Monday by the Senate Law and Public Safety Committee would double the fine for first offenses to $200 for …
For some Ohioans, the memory of Hurricane Ike is only surpassed by the damage it caused last Sept. 14 as it made its way across the Buckeye State packing winds at speeds equal to a Category 1 hurricane (up to …
State Compensation Insurance Fund today announced it earned $143 million in net income in 2009, up from $75 million for the prior year. In its 2009 Annual Report, the company noted it has an increase of $161 million in policyholders’ …
The Crescent City, Calif., and Grants Pass, Ore., locations of NorthWest Insurance Agency have joined the Leavitt Group to form Redwoods Leavitt Insurance Agency based in Crescent City, Calif. Bill Cochran is the managing local co-owner of the new agency. …
Wood Gutmann & Bogart Insurance Brokers of Tustin, Calif., announced it has partnered with Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. to present the Fullerton (Calif.) Fire Department with $12,196 to fund the purchase 43 fire shelters. The shelters are built with an …
Ryan Gillispie has joined Highland Risk Services in Chicago as vice president effective Sept.1, 2010. Gillispie is responsible for wholesale brokering of property and casualty insurance for long term care facilities and allied health providers through a network of retail …
