Citing the strain of escalating medical costs on the workers’ compensation system, increasingly intense price competition, and the uncertainty over the sustainability of the 2003-2004 legislative reforms due to recent Court decisions, Agoura Hills, Calif.-based Employers Direct has announced plans …
Continental Risk Insurance Services is now offering worker’s compensation coverage for hundreds of classes including contractors, manufacturers, and fitness clubs with a specialization in large accounts. Free help-line services are offered along with an in house claims and audit team. …
Legislation aimed at streamlining and reducing barriers in state regulation of surplus lines insurance and reinsurance has been introduced in the U.S. Senate. The Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act (NRRA) of 2009, or S 1363, would create a uniform regulatory …
The following markets were selected from the MyNewMarkets database of 25,000 coverages and programs. To find additional markets, or to submit markets, go to www.MyNewMarkets.com. Contractors General Liability Market Detail: London American Risk Specialists Inc. brings agents a commercial general …
Virginia Commonwealth University has notified more than 17,000 current and former students that their names, Social Security numbers and test scores may have been exposed after someone stole a computer from the school library. The desktop computer was stolen in …
A downturn in the commodity markets has slowed the number of thefts in the Montgomery, Alabama area. Police in Elmore and Autuaga counties say when scrap copper was selling for $3.50 a pound, they constantly responded to thefts of things …
Liberty Mutual Group’s Agency Markets business unit announced that one of its member companies, Liberty Northwest, has sold the renewal rights for most of its direct-sold workers’ compensation policies written in Idaho, Montana and Oregon. Going forward, Liberty Northwest will …
Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons has signed a bill that will change the funding structure of the Nevada Division of Insurance and strengthen consumer protections in the area of viatical settlements. The bill, Senate Bill 426, passed May 22 in the …
New York-based program manager Insight Catastrophe Group has launched a new division that will provide identity theft programs to personal and commercial lines insurance carriers. The new program includes two supplemental covers: a personal lines product designed to protect a …
The following markets were selected from the MyNewMarkets database of 25,000 coverages and programs. To find additional markets, or to submit markets, go to www.MyNewMarkets.com. Staffing Firms Market Detail: World Wide Specialty Programs was founded 40 years ago to provide …
