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The National Association of Insurance Commissioners named its 2007 committee chairs and vice chairs. The new committee assignments are for one year: Life Insurance and Annuities Committee: chair, Julie McPeak, executive director, Kentucky Office of Insurance, and vice chair, Tim …

New Markets

Trucking Nuts & Bolts: AIX Group, Inc., a specialty insurance holding company, has formed a program to provide automobile physical damage coverage to commercial trucking operations. This program will be targeting operations with above average loss experience and fleets between …

New Markets

Long Haul Trucking Program Nuts & Bolts: M.J. Hall and Co. Inc. has a program for long haul truckers garaged in California. It covers liability, physical damage, cargo and trucker’s general liability. The program also covers: Ag haulers, intermodal operations, …

Top 10 tornado cities

The violent thunderstorms in Central Florida in early February, spawned powerful tornadoes that killed at least 20 people is a deadly reminder of the constant threat insurers face against tornado exposures. Tornado-related losses account for 24.5 percent of insured catastrophe …

People and Places

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners named its 2007 committee chairs and vice chairs. The new assignments are for one year: International Insurance Relations Committee: chair, Diane Koken, commissioner, Pennsylvania Insurance Department, and vice chair, Dorelisse Juarbe Jiminez, commissioner, Puerto …

New Markets

N.J. Coastal Property Nuts & Bolts: McSweeny Agency of New Jersey is offering coverage on boardwalk stores, ocean front, bay front, condos, dwellings, and seasonal commercial properties. Dollars: $100,000 to $1 million. Carrier: Rated “A+” by A.M. Best. Non-admitted. States: …

People

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners named its 2007 committee chairs and vice chairs. The new assignments are for one year: International Insurance Relations Committee: chair, Diane Koken, commissioner, Pennsylvania Insurance Department, and vice chair, Dorelisse Juarbe Jiminez, commissioner, Puerto …

New Markets

N.J. Coastal Property Nuts & Bolts: McSweeny Agency of New Jersey is offering coverage on boardwalk stores, ocean front, bay front, condos, dwellings, and seasonal commercial properties. Dollars: $100,000 to $1 million. Carrier: Rated “A+” by A.M. Best. Non-admitted. States: …

People

Chicago-based The Park Group, a wholesale insurance brokerage has announced the promotion of Peter Upjohn to the position of manager of the newly established Professional Liability Brokerage Department. Upjohn is responsible for the majority of the professional liability lines of …

Figures

2,700 The world’s largest kosher slaughterhouse is recalling about 2,700 pounds of potentially underprocessed frankfurters shipped to New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, company and federal officials said. Agriprocessors Inc., based in Postville in northeast Iowa, is ac-cepting returns on …