Six Flags and Cedar Fair shut down eight more thrill rides around North America on Friday after a teenage girl’s feet were sliced off during a ride in Kentucky. State inspectors were at the Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom to examine …
Bermuda-based Hiscox Ltd. has acquired – subject to regulatory approval – ALTOHA, Inc. an insurance holding company, and its subsidiaries, including American Live Stock Insurance Company, the premier live stock insurer in the US. Hiscox also acquired Harding & Harding, …
The family of a Glen Ellyn, Ill. man who died at a dentist’s office has settled a lawsuit against the dentist and clinic for a combined $1.135 million. Robert Pauly, 73, died in the dental chair at Glen Ellyn Family …
Associated Risk Managers (ARM) recently announced the addition of three new members to their Board of Directors. The members are Robert E. Weaver, vice president, Jackson, Dieken & Associates, Westlake, Ohio and Past ARM chairman 2002-03; Kelly Shea, president, Landmark …
An 11-year-old girl whose family says she became ill after eating peanut butter contaminated with salmonella received a kidney donated by her father on Monday (June 18). Krystina Brugh and her father, John Brugh Jr., were both doing well after …
A federal judge has sided with the state of Oklahoma on several legal challenges brought by the poultry industry in an attempt to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson. After two days of hearings in federal …
A federal judge in Alabama wants a prominent lawyer involved in a Hurricane Katrina insurance case charged with criminal contempt for what he said was circumventing his order to give up documents secretly copied by two whistleblowers. U.S. District Judge …
Today’s demands on independent agents are plentiful: competition, risk management, compensation disclosure, quality markets and carrier’s demands for premium quotas, to name a few. Such demands could be one reason some agencies today have increased their use of market access …
Francis L. Dean & Associates, a national underwriting facility specializing in sports and entertainment, has opened two offices: one in El Segundo, Calif., and the other in Ocala, Fla. The two offices will be managed by underwriters who relocated from …
Blackstone Group, Alliant Alliant Insurance Services Inc., one of the nation’s largest insurance brokerage firms, announced that The Blackstone Group, in partnership with Alliant’s management and employees, will acquire the company from its current owners comprised of the investment firm …
