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Wedding Insurance Nuts & Bolts: Travelers recently launched Wedding Protector Plan, which provides coverage with no deductible for a variety of unfortunate occurrences associated with a wedding event. For example, coverage is provided if a hurricane causes the necessary and …

My New Markets

Wedding Insurance Nuts & Bolts: Travelers recently announced the launch of the Wedding Protector Plan, an insurance policy covering weddings. The Wedding Protector Plan provides coverage, with no deductible, for a variety of unfortunate occurrences associated with a wedding event. …

Semi-Annual Premium Total Dividend Amount

Indiana 14.4 $41.9 million Iowa 21.8 $25.4 million Kansas 15.1 $19.8 million Michigan 3.4 $18.8 million Minnesota 25.0 $72.0 million Missouri 7.3 $21.8 million Nebraska 16.1 $15.8 million North Dakota 22.8 $5.2 million Ohio 12.6 $57.9 million South Dakota 14.9 …

My New Markets

Wedding Insurance Nuts & Bolts: Travelers recently announced the launch of the Wedding Protector Plan, an insurance policy covering weddings. The Wedding Protector Plan provides coverage, with no deductible, for a variety of unfortunate occurrences associated with a wedding event. …

Business Moves

Carpenter Moore, USI Southwest Houston-based USI Southwest and Car-penter Moore, a subsidiary of The Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., are partnering to provide executive liability services to public companies in Texas, Louisiana and New Mexico. They will provide an array of …

My New Markets

Wedding Insurance Nuts & Bolts: Travelers recently launched Wedding Protector Plan, which provides coverage with no deductible for a variety of unfortunate occurrences associated with a wedding event. For example, coverage is provided if a hurricane causes the necessary and …

Jury Awards Iowa Man $10 Million for Back Injury

A federal jury has awarded a man $10 million after ruling that his employer’s insurance carrier acted in bad faith in denying his claim for benefits from a 1999 back injury. The jury is still deliberating whether to award the …

Senate Finance Chairman Wants $50 Billion Increase for Children’s Health Insurance

The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee said Tuesday that he is pushing for an additional $50 billion over five years for a health care program that insures millions of children. That is more than double what the Bush administration …

Wis. American Family Pays Record $1.1 Billion in Storm Claims

A string of spring storms across the Midwest caused American Family Insurance Co. to pay a record $1.1 billion in storm losses last year. Other insurers, including the nation’s largest insurer, State Farm Insurance, paid out less in storm claims …

Ohio Motorists Insurance Group Names Iowa Executive to Senior Post

Susan E. Haack, president of Iowa Mutual Insurance Co. in DeWitt, Iowa, has been chosen to succeed Thomas C. Ogg, as secretary of the companies of The Motorists Insurance Group headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. Ogg currently plans to retire in …