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Auto Repair Shop Pollution Liability Nuts & Bolts: USAssure Insurance Services is offering a new market that includes auto repair shops, as well as: oil change facilities, motor vehicle dealers, tire sales and repair, and auto parts stores. Coverage provides …

News Currents

Report: N.D. has the best roads, Kansas ranks 3rd Nearly 52 percent of U.S. urban interstates are now congested and traffic fatality rates rose slightly, but road surface conditions and bridge conditions improved, according to the Reason Foundation’s latest annual …

Tampa, Fla. Bridge Closed after Inspection

In Florida, Hillsborough County officials closed a lightly used, crumbling two-lane bridge over a suburban creek, days after the collapse of an interstate highway bridge in downtown Minneapolis. The bridge was shut down Aug. 3 after engineers decided Wednesday, two …

People

The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America named Deputy Secretary of Commerce David A. Sampson to serve as the association’s president and chief executive officer. Sampson take over the reins of PCI on Sept. 4. PCI represents more than 1,000 …

News Currents

Minn. groups sue AIG for $100 million in damages for fraud, violations The Minnesota Workers’ Compensation Reinsurance Association (WCRA) and the Minnesota Workers’ Compen-sation Insurers Association (MWCIA) filed suit on July 17, 2007, against American International Group Inc. (AIG) to …

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1. North Dakota 2. South Carolina 3. Kansas 4. New Mexico 5. Montana 6. Georgia 7. Wyoming 8. Oregon 9. Nevada 10. Idaho 11. South Dakota 12. Kentucky 13. Minnesota 14. Indiana 15. Texas 16. Ohio 17. Missouri 18. Virginia …

Business Moves

Safeco Seattle-based Safeco has expanded its sales organization from five to nine regions, and has named executives to lead two of the territories. “Independent insurance agents have consistently told us they want more personal contact,” said Spencer Donkin, senior vice …

My New Markets

Phone Indications on EPLI Nuts & Bolts: International Excess Agency Inc. is offering phone indications on employment practices liability. The company suggests that interested parties provide the number of employees, class of business and loss history, and it will provide …

My New Markets

Phone Indications on EPLI Nuts & Bolts: International Excess Agency Inc. is offering phone indications on employment practices liability. The company suggests that interested parties provide the number of employees, class of business and loss history, and it will provide …

My New Markets

Coin Laundry and Dry Cleaners Nuts & Bolts: Gridiron Insurance Underwriters Inc. is offering a program especially designed for coin laundries and dry cleaners, and similar type risks. 24-hour coin laundries are eligible. Laundry routes at apartment buildings are not …