Workers’ compensation insurer, United Heartland, in New Berlin, Wis., has appointed Rick Bartelme as director of Loss Control. Bartelme is responsible for implementing United Heartland’s comprehensive approach to loss control, which involves customizing a results-based program to each company and …
New York regulators are pursuing a reincarnation of the New York Insurance Exchange, a Lloyd’s of London-style insurance market that lasted for several years the last time it was tried. New York Insurance Superintendent James Wrynn said the exchange would …
A.M. Best Co. has downgraded the financial strength rating to B+ (Good) from B++ (Good) and issuer credit ratings to “bbb-” from “bbb” of Interstate Bankers Casualty Company of Chicago, Ill. The rating outlook has been revised to negative from …
Fast food giant McDonald’s has withdrawn a petition to the Kentucky Supreme Court over a $6.1 million award to a former fast food worker who was forced to strip after someone called posing as a police officer. The Louisville Courier-Journal …
Illinois-based Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has agreed to acquire substantially all of the insurance brokerage business of FirstCity Partnership Ltd. of London, England. The transaction is expected to close in April 2010. Terms were not disclosed. FirstCity Partnership Ltd. …
Heffernan Insurance Brokers announced that Simonne de Villiers has joined the firm’s Chesterfield, Mo., office as a benefits specialist. Heffernan is a full-service insurance brokerage in the St. Louis and Metro East Illinois areas, offering property and casualty, and life …
Minnesota ranks the best in the nation in terms of workers’ compensation performance, according to the Encinitas, Calif.-based Work Loss Data Institute (WLDI), which recently released its 2010 State Report Cards for Workers’ Compensation. Using eight years of data from …
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has appointed workers’ compensation attorney Mitchel R. Weisz as acting chairman of the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission. Amy Masters, who has been heading the organization since the retirement of Paul Rink in late February, will return …
Giant insurance broker Marsh says its main brokerage unit will not accept contingent commissions on business for U.S. or Canadian clients but its Marsh & McLennan Agency and its affinity and personal lines business units will. The decision to not …
Insurance transportation MGA and wholesale broker Transportation Risk Services (TRS) in Barrington, Ill., has added Sandra Bailey as vice president. Bailey has more than 25 years of experience in the insurance industry. The majority of her career focused on the …
