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New Builder Construction Nuts & Bolts: Abram Interstate Insurance Services Inc. in Rocklin, Calif., is offering a new owner builder course of construction policy in California. Coverage is written on a homeowners HO-3 Form. Builders Risk policies can be converted …

Mass. AG Reilly opposes FAIR Plan rate hike

Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly has decided to appeal Insurance Commissioner Julianne Bowler’s order allowing the state’s insurer of last resort — the FAIR Plan — to raise home insurance premiums an average of 12.4 percent statewide and 25 percent …

It Figures

$18 to $106 The premium range that lower income single adults will pay a month for health care under a plan approved by the Massachusetts board drafting regulations for the state’s new health care law. Under the plan, people earning …

New Markets

Liability Long Term Care Facilities Nuts & Bolts: Houston, Texas-based London American Risk Specialists Inc. is offering CareSurance, a liability insurance program for skilled, assisted and independent long term care facilities. The program also includes risk management tools from LTCQ …

New Markets

Liability Long Term Care Facilities Nuts & Bolts: Houston, Texas-based London American Risk Specialists Inc. is offering CareSurance, a new liability insurance program designed to meet the needs of skilled, assisted and independent long term care (LTC) facilities across America. …

New Markets

Liability Long Term Care Facilities Nuts & Bolts: Houston-based London American Risk Specialists Inc. is offering CareSurance, liability insurance for skilled, assisted and independent long term care facilities. The CareSurance program also includes risk management tools from LTCQ Inc. Dollars: …

TD Banknorth Agency Promotes 5

Maine-based TD Banknorth Insurance Agency, Inc. announced several personnel moves, including the promotion of Ellen L. Dupuis to senior vice president in the Personal Insurance Division in South Portland, Maine. As a product line/profit center manager, she will continue to …

Regional Carriers Rank Best on Ease of Doing Business Performance

Regional insurance carriers again topped the list of best performers when it comes to ease of doing business, according to a new survey by Deep Customer Connections Inc. based in Acton, Mass. West Bend Mutual, headquartered in Wisconsin, and Grange …

Marsh & McLennan Exploring Possible Sale of Putnam

Marsh & McLennan Cos., the world’s biggest insurance brokerage, says it is checking the market for a possible sale of its Boston-based mutual funds division, Putnam Investments. Michael G. Cherkasky, New York-based Marsh & McLennan’s president and chief executive, said …

Wash. Report Reveals Cost of the Uninsured More than $550 Million

Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has released a report revealing that the cost of providing health care for the uninsured in Washington state has risen to more than half a billion dollars a year. According to the latest report, the …