Nuts & Bolts: DMI Insurance Services Inc. has expanded the range of markets it supplies to producers serving non-franchised auto dealers and automotive specialty shops. The new markets will be available immediately through admitted and non-admitted carriers in select states. …
NAS Insurance Services has broadened its Non-Standard Medical Malpractice Insurance in several areas. The coverage is now available to virtually all physicians specialists — plastic/cosmetic surgeons, emergency room physicians, lasik surgeons, orthopedics, etc. — except for obstetrics and bariatric surgeons. …
Burns & Wilcox, a national specialty insurance managing general agency, has promoted Wayne Bates to director of the company’s Special Risk Division (SRD), International and promoted him to associate vice president. Bates previously served as director of Burns & Wilcox’s …
Heartland Marketing Group Inc. recently introduced a new market for lower valued homes, including mobile/manufactured home, travel trailer and stand-alone dwelling fire risks. Offered through Aegis Security Insurance Company, the program is available to HMG’s Texas agents, but the company …
Backed up at an intersection? Wary of those tough left-hand turns against oncoming traffic? A new roundabout might solve your traffic headache. Roundabouts, or modern traffic circles, have grown in acceptance in recent years, cropping up across the country as …
Non-Franchised Auto Dealers Nuts & Bolts: DMI Insurance Services Inc. ha expanded the range of markets it supplies to producers serving non-franchised auto dealers and automotive specialty shops. The new markets will be available immediately through admitted and non-admitted carriers …
According to conventional wisdom, 2004 was the first year in the past 16 where insurers finally broke through and made an underwriting profit on commercial lines auto. The breakthrough came after a year, 2003, which saw the countrywide combined ratio …
ILLINOIS Crop Insurance for African Farmers: Opportunity International, a global microfinance network based in Oak Brook, Ill., announced its partnership with the World Bank and its affiliated IFT Commodity Management Group to provide index-based weather insurance to rural farmers in …
Piles of snow and icy roads definitely were not what most Thanksgiving travelers wanted to deal with on their way home from the long holiday weekend. Meantime, tornadoes tore through several states damaging properties. Hundreds of miles of major roadways …
Insurers like writing commercial auto business, and most lines of business, in the Midwestern states because of market stability and a favorable legislative and regulatory climate. But even in this typically stable line of business, tort reform is needed to …
