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Outdoor Sports Nuts & Bolts: Markel’s Outdoors is a niche program for guide and outfitting professionals, private sporting clubs and hunting/fishing lodges. Marketed through select retail insurance agents. Dollars: Limits $300 to $1 million. Minimum premiums based on $1 million …

New Markets

Equipment Policies Nuts & Bolts: Britt Paulk Insurance Agency Inc. is offering an equipment policy program that includes agriculture, forestry, construction and lawn and garden. The coverage is first party physical damage for contractors’ equipment. Classes include contractors, agricultural, forestry, …

Uninsured Drivers Increasing; Vary by State; Miss. Highest, Maine Lowest

New Markets

Outdoor Sporting Program Nuts & Bolts: Markel’s Outdoors is a niche program for guide and outfitting professionals, private sporting clubs and hunting/fishing lodges. Marketed through select retail insurance agents, this program is available on a licensed and admitted basis in …

People and Places

PMA Insurance Group has promoted Elaine Manchonto assistant vice president for commercial markets underwriting. Manchon, who will join PMA’s corporate headquarters staff in the company’s Blue Bell, Penna. office, will be responsible for helping to generate profitable revenue growth in …

New Markets

Outdoor Sporting Program Nuts & Bolts: Markel’s Outdoors is a niche program for guide and outfitting professionals, private sporting clubs and hunting/fishing lodges. Marketed through select retail insurance agents, this program is available on a licensed and admitted basis in …

People PMA Insurance Group has promoted Elaine Manchon to assistant vice president for commercial markets underwriting. Manchon, who will join PMA’s corporate headquarters staff in the company’s Blue Bell, Penna. office, will be responsible for helping to generate profitable revenue …

Montana’s Morrison loses race for Senate

Montana State Auditor John Morrison lost in the primary election to become the Democratic nominee for a U.S. Senate seat. Morrison placed second in five-person field, with 38,380 votes. The winner, State Senate President Jon Tester, D-Big Sandy, received 65,722 …

Study: 18 Million Americans May Be Unfit for Roads

Results from the second annual GMAC Insurance National Drivers Test suggest licensed Americans lack basic driving knowledge and exhibit alarming behaviors on the road. The study revealed that one in eleven drivers–nearly 18 million people–would fail a state drivers test. …

Business Moves

Pierson & Fendley, CAA Combined Agents of America LLC, Austin, announced that Pierson & Fendley Insurance Agency LLC of Paris, Texas, joined CAA as the group’s 34th member. Pierson & Fendley has served Paris and surrounding areas for over 70 …