Hawaii News

Island Insurance Appoints Kim Agency Partners Program Manager

Honolulu-based Island Insurance Co. Ltd., has appointed Nova Kim as Agency Partners Program manager. In this newly created position, Kim will be responsible for the company’s Agency Partners Program (APP), which includes training and educational programs for APP participants, in …

And the Best, Worst States for Tort Liability Costs Are…

Alaska, Hawaii and North Carolina get thumbs up while New Jersey, New York and Florida get thumbs down for their tort liability costs in the latest ranking by a free-market think tank. The states with the worst performance had the …

Hawaii Insurance Commissioner Schmidt Resigns

J.P. Schmidt, Insurance Commissioner of the State of Hawaii, announced he be leaving his position to join the Honolulu law firm of Bays Deaver Lung Rose Holma, effective July 1. Schmidt will be practicing general business, corporate and government regulatory …

20% A little more than 20 percent of the nation’s drivers would flunk a drivers test but drivers in the Midwest are among the most knowledgeable, according to a recent survey. The 2009 GMAC Insurance National Drivers Test found that …

20% of Drivers Would Flunk Test

The nation’s most knowledgeable drivers are in Idaho, Wisconsin, Montana and Kansas, while the least knowledgeable are in New York, New Jersey, Hawaii and California. That’s according to results from the 2009 GMAC Insurance National Drivers Test, which found that …

It Figures

$6 Million Attorneys for Lloyd’s of London, which is paying jailed Texas financier R. Allen Stanford’s legal bills, say the company has spent more than $6 million on lawyers from 10 firms to defend him from allegations that he orchestrated …

People

Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based LaBarre/Oksnee insurance brokers promoted Jeff Leane to the newly created vice president of sales position. He is charged with leading the development and implementation of sales strategy and growing the company’s sales organization. He has more than …

New Markets

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Hiscox USA Adds Underwriters to Los Angeles Regional Office

Hiscox USA has expanded its business in its Los Angeles, California office with the addition of underwriters in the allied healthcare professional and general liability; architects, engineers and construction managers professional liability; kidnap and ransom and miscellaneous professional liability product …

Why Some Volcanic Eruptions Produce Ash Clouds and Others Don’t

Volcanoes exist in many parts of the world, and their eruptions can be terrifying and devastating, as Aon Benfield’s Professor Russell Blong discusses in the previous article at: https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2010/06/04/110441.htm. However, not all volcanic eruptions produce clouds of gritty ash that …