Torrent Technologies, Inc., a Marsh company, in coordination with Torrent’s Write-Your-Own (WYO) carriers participating in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), has the availability of a new excess flood insurance option that combines coverage with real-time quoting and binding functionality. …
A judge in West Virginia has approved the distribution of more than $15 million in insurance funds to the families of three workers killed in a plant explosion. The Weirton Daily Times reports that the families plan to dismiss wrongful …
Managing general agency Johnson & Johnson, Inc. (J&J) has acquired John Handel & Associates, Inc. (JHA), located in St. Petersburg, Fla. Under its new ownership, JHA will continue to offer the same products and services throughout the state of Florida, …
Fort Wayne, IN, August 4 2015: American Specialty is pleased to announce the roll out of its latest online insurance program for U.S. based dance schools and studios specializing in the instruction of performance and social dance. Coverage includes $1,000,000 …
Andy N. Siegel, president of Siegel Insurance, Inc., a Trusted Choice insurance agency in Atlanta, was installed as president of the Independent Insurance Agents of Georgia, Inc. (IIAG) on June 13, during the association’s 118th Annual Meeting and Convention in …
Dallas, TX – July 23, 2014 – U.S. Risk Insurance Group, Inc. (www.usrisk.com), the eighth largest managing general agency and surplus lines wholesaler in the nation, announced that it has named Jonathan Hagan an Underwriter for the Dallas Commercial Underwriting …
A recent ruling from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Louisiana clarified that an umbrella policy may be triggered even when the underlying insurance is exhausted by claims that would not be covered by the umbrella policy itself. The …
A.M. Best has revised the outlook to stable from negative and affirmed the issuer credit ratings (ICR) of “a+” of Frankenmuth Mutual Insurance Company and its affiliates, Ansur America Insurance Company, Patriot Insurance Company, based in Yarmouth Maine, ASure Worldwide …
Zurich-based Echo Reinsurance Ltd., wholly owned subsidiary of German mutual insurance group DEVK, announced that it will target writing treaty reinsurance from Latin America in order to further enhance and diversify its portfolio. Echo Re also noted that it has …
Houston-based HCC Insurance Holdings Inc. announced that Parthasarathy Srinivasa has joined HCC as senior vice president and chief information officer (CIO), reporting to William N. Burke, HCC’s president and chief operating officer. Srinivasa has 20 years of information technology (IT) …
