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Big Boat Insurance for Racers and Cruisers Nuts & Bolts: The U.S. Sailing Association, the national governing body for the sport, and Gowrie Barden & Brett have teamed up to offer a new big boat insurance program for U.S. Sailing …

Nationwide’s Allied Insurance Looking for Agents on East Coast

The independent agency arm of giant Nationwide Insurance is expanding its reach and looking for agents in the East and South. Allied Insurance, which currently has more than 4,500 independent agency locations in the West and Midwest, began writing personal …

People & Places

Susan Kearney Venture Programs, a national provider of insurance programs based in West Chester, Pa., has promoted two senior staff members to vice president positions. Jim Sfaffer Susan Kearney was appointed vice president of Venture Hospitality, and will be responsible …

Undercover on Underwriting: Spitzer Spills AIG’s Secrets in Civil Complaint

AG Targets Ex-Execs Greenberg and Smith; AIG Restates Financials; Is Settlement Next? From the 1980s until recently, insurance giant American International Group and its top executives “routinely engaged in misleading accounting and financial reporting, projecting an unduly positive picture of …

Manufacturers’ Liability

Nuts & Bolts: Kansas City-based underwriting manager and claims administrator Euclid Managers LLC launched ProtoType, an insurance product for manufacturers. The product features errors and omissions, Web site protection, security coverage, copyright and trademark infringement, defamation, privacy and other personal …

Susan Kearney

Mark Hagan Gerald O’Neill Venture Programs, a national provider of insurance programs based in West Chester, Pa., has promoted two senior staff members to vice president positions. Susan Kearney was appointed vice president of Venture Hospitality, and will be responsible …

Undercover on Underwriting: Spitzer Spills AIG’s Secrets in Civil Complaint

AG Targets Ex-Execs Greenberg and Smith; AIG Restates Financials; Is Settlement Next? – Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, AIG CEO, 1992 From the 1980s until recently, insurance giant American International Group and its top executives “routinely engaged in misleading accounting and financial …

People

Venture Programs, a national provider of insurance programs based in West Chester, Pa., has promoted two senior staff members to vice president positions. Susan Kearney was appointed vice president of Venture Hospitality, and will be responsible for sales, marketing, underwriting …

Nationwide’s Allied Insurance Looking for Agents on East Coast

The independent agency arm of giant Nationwide Insurance is expanding its reach and looking for agents in the East and South. Allied Insurance, which currently has more than 4,500 independent agency locations in the West and Midwest, began writing personal …

N.Y. Eyes Extending Assessment Deadline For Storm Damaged Homes

New York Superintendent of Insurance Howard Mills has urged the state legislature to extend the deadline to give Broome County homeowners whose properties were damaged in last month’s floods more time to file for reassessments. The measure before lawmakers would …