A trucking company service manager from the New Orleans, La.-area has won a customized Peterbilt “big rig” in Ohio-based Great American Insurance Group’s annual giveaway. Todd Turner’s first trip to the Mid-America Trucking Show was more exciting than he could …
National Interstate Insurance Co. has expanded its community & medical transportation (CMT) insurance program to include best-in-class fleet taxi operations. The product will be offered exclusively through National Interstate’s network of independent retail brokers. Originally launched in 2003, the CMT …
Officials with the Louisiana Highway Safety Commission say collisions at rail crossings in Louisiana fell in 2011from 106 in 2010 to 96 last year. The Louisiana Operation Lifesaver program also reported that deaths from such incidents fell from 13 to …
Months after their state-certified vehicle inspection station was cited by federal authorities for failing to notice defects in a bus that crashed in North Texas, killing 17 passengers, brothers Alam and Cesar Hernandez shuttered their firm. But that didn’t mean …
Norman-Spencer Agency Inc. announced that Phil Keeter has joined its Marine Insurance Services Division as vice president of dealer services. A formers marine dealer, Keeter retired as president of the Marine Retailers Association of the Americas (MRAA) in 2011 after …
Texas-based independent insurance and financial service firm, Higginbotham, has appointed commercial insurance broker Jack Shell to develop its new transportation unit. Shell, hired in April 2011 at Higginbotham’s Houston branch office, has concentrated experience mitigating the exposures that characterize the …
Legislation is on a fast track in the Missouri Senate to make the state comply with federal standards for commercial truckers and drunken driving sentences in an effort to avoid penalties that could dock tens of millions of federal road …
All Risks Ltd. has obtained a new market for charter bus companies of all sizes effective Jan. 1, 2012. The coverage will be available through the company’s York, Penn.-based livery unit, which will serve as the program administrator. The carrier …
Lawmakers responded to pleas from industry and foreign governments on Friday with a tentative agreement to block the Obama administration from requiring that air shipments of lithium batteries be treated as hazardous cargo because of the danger of fires during …
The marine insurance unit at XL Group plc has added Michael Perrotti as senior vice president, marine field operations. He is based in Cleveland, Ohio. Perrotti joins XL from Zurich North America where he managed the expansion of the company’s …
