Connecticut News

Latin Insurance Agent Groups Growing, Going Mainstream

A group of New York insurance agents has launched a new trade group for Latin insurance producers as well as brokers who serve the Hispanic community in the Northeast. LABA is not the first group geared toward insurance agents with …

Brown & Brown Acquires Eberhart & Co. of Georgia

Florida-based agency Brown & Brown has acquired Eberhart & Company Insurors, Inc.of Roswell, Georgia. With revenues of approximately $1 million, Eberhart has served the insurance needs of individuals and businesses in the Atlanta metropolitan area since 1969. Eberhart principals Ralph …

Connecticut Jury’s $2.5 Million Award Recognizes Same-Sex Marriage

A jury awarded $2.45 million Friday in a malpractice case to the estate of a Connecticut woman who had also that claimed botched cancer treatments damaged her same-sex relationship, attorneys said. Margaret Mueller and Charlotte Stacey sued two doctors in …

Brown & Brown Acquires Meridian Group of New York

Florida-based insurance agency Brown & Brown has acquired Meridian Group of New York, Inc. Meridian Group, with annual revenues of approximately $1.3 million, provides life, health, and other employee benefits products and services to individuals, businesses, public entities, non-profit organizations, …

Connecticut Warns Agents over Surplus Lines Placements

The Connecticut Insurance Department is warning producers against placing coastal homeowners in the surplus lines market if an admitted insurer has offered to renew their policies. Doing so violates Connecticut law, and in a recently released bulletin, the state says …

Declarations

It’s a Twister? “It was a noise I never heard before… Everything was pitch black and going in a circle down the road.” —Edward Beardsley of Bridgeport, Connecticut, where a rare tornado tore through the city, ripping off roofs, knocking …

It Figures

$3 Million Settlement reached between City of Boston the parents of a Boston Celtics fan who stopped breathing and later died after police took him into custody during the 2008 NBA championship celebrations. David Woodman, 22, died 11 days after …

Business Moves

Alteris, Insurent Alteris Inc., a provider for the managing general agency community, has partnered with Insurent Agency Corp. to offer an insurance program focused exclusively on guaranteeing residential leases. Established in 2008, the Insurent Lease Guaranty Program offers financial guarantees …

Business Moves

Arthur J. Gallagher, Joseph James & Associates Illinois-based insurance brokerage and risk management services firm, Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., has acquired Joseph James & Associates of Dublin, Ohio. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in 1989, Joseph …

New Markets

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