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Accident Site and Public Response Nuts & Bolts: AIG Specialty Excess, an umbrella and excess casualty underwriting unit of the AIG Companies, announced the addition of Accident Site Advisor and PublicResponse to its excess liability insurance. The built-in enhancements, catering …

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Accident Site and Public Response Nuts & Bolts: AIG Specialty Excess, an umbrella and excess casualty underwriting unit of the AIG Companies, announced the addition of Accident Site Advisor and PublicResponse to its excess liability insurance. The built-in enhancements, catering …

Storm Closes Cheyenne Government Offices, Interstates

A major winter storm hit southeastern Wyoming on Wednesday, closing interstate highways, stranding travelers and sending government workers home early in Cheyenne. Mike Sowko, forecaster with the National Weather Service in Cheyenne, said Wednesday evening that the storm was the …

Insurers Remind Holiday Shoppers about Dangers of Identity Theft

Des Moines, Iowa-based Hawkeye-Security Insurance and Indiana Insurance, both members of the Liberty Mutual Group, are urging holiday shoppers to raise their awareness of identity theft, the fastest growing crime in America. Consumers’ increased use of credit and debit cards …

Minn. Taco John’s CEO Offers to Pay Medical Bills for E. Coli Victims

The head of Taco John’s International offered this week to pay medical bills for customers who got ill from E. coli bacteria at three of the chain’s Mexican restaurants. Some 76 people were sickened after eating at Taco John’s in …

Oregon Archdiocese Reorganization Plan Calls for $75 Million Settlement

Settling nearly 170 claims of priest sex abuse would cost the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland about $75 million under a reorganization plan proposed to end the first bankruptcy in the nation filed by a diocese. Insurance companies have agreed …

Iowa Hawkeye-Security Insurance Expands Agent Network in Mo.

Hawkeye-Security Insurance, a member of Liberty Mutual Group, recently announced the recent appointment of six new agencies to its group of independent agents in Missouri. The following appointments broaden Hawkeye-Security Insurance’s personal and small-to-medium size commercial lines business in the …

Regulator Study Shows Iowa Motorists Rank 50 Nationwide

Iowa motorists’ ability to avoid accidents has made the state one of the cheapest place to buy auto insurance, an industry report says. A survey by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, found that in 2003-04 Iowa drivers paid an …

Portland Archdiocese, Sex Abuse Claimants Agree to Settle

Nearly all the some 170 people claiming they were sexually abused by priests who once worked in Western Oregon have agreed to settle their lawsuits against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland, a federal judge who mediated the deal announced …

Study Shows Iowa with Significant Insurance Industry Job Growth

A recent 48-page study by the Connecticut Economic Resource Center Inc. said that Iowa now surpasses Connecticut for insurance company job growth. From 1995 to 2005, insurance jobs in insurance companies in Connecticut increased by 2.4 percent, from 51,820 to …