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Robert G. Whitlock Harleysville Group Inc. has appointed Robert G. Whitlock Jr. as senior vice president and chief underwriting officer. He will assume senior management responsibility for Harleysville’s commercial lines and personal lines underwriting operations, along with its reinsurance organization. …

Hotel Crisis Management Coverage

Nuts & Bolts: Insurance Company of the West will offer admitted stand-alone property terrorism coverage for most states around the country. Additional states, including New York, New Jersey, Vermont, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and the District of Columbia …

FLOOD PROTECTION RULES HIT:

Despite three major Delaware River floods in the past 13 months, the Department of Environmental Protection is reneging on promises to revise rules that would make it tougher for developers to build in flood-prone areas, environmental groups charged. Representatives of …

Forged State Check Scam Centers on Ark.

Arkansas Attor-ney General Mike Beebe’s office said it is among several state and federal agencies investigating an international scam involving forged copies of State of Arkansas checks. Operating from Turkey and possibly Latvia, the scam artists send out counterfeit checks, …

Harleysville Group Inc. has appointed Robert G. Whitlock Jr. as senior vice president and chief underwriting officer. He will assume senior management responsibility for Harleysville’s commercial lines and personal lines underwriting operations, along with its reinsurance organization. The Pennsylvania-based company …

News Briefs

MASSACHUSETTS Fed Probe Firing of MassMutual CEO: Federal prosecutors are investigating the conduct that led to the firing of former MassMutual Insurance Comany chief executive Robert J. O’Connell, the company disclosed in court documents. The company acknowledged the federal probe …

New Markets

Preferred Club Program Nuts & Bolts: Venture Insurance Programs has expanded its Preferred Club Program through an exclusive program alliance with The Hanover Insurance. Co. Effective immediately, The Hanover Insurance Company, rated “A-” (Excellent), Financial Size Category XII by A.M. …

News Briefs

ARKANSAS Forged State Check Scam Centers on Ark. Arkansas Attor-ney General Mike Beebe’s office said it is among several state and federal agencies investigating an international scam involving forged copies of State of Arkansas checks. Operating from Turkey and possibly …

Former Okla. Poultry Worker Ordered to Pay Restitution in Fraud Case

A Jay, Okla., woman received a three-year deferred sentence and was ordered to pay $3,692.50 in restitution after pleading guilty in Delaware County District Court, state Attorney General Drew Edmondson said. Gregoria Lopez, also known as Gloria Lopez, 51, was …

Del. Captive Insurance Association Applauds New State Legislation

At a ceremonial bill signing held earlier in the week, the Delaware Captive Insurance Association (DCIA) commended the Delaware General Assembly and Delaware Gov. Ruth Ann Minner for the recent passage of House Bill 218, which amends the state’s legislation …