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Security Guards Nuts & Bolts: Brownyard Group’s program for security guard firms has been expanded to include limits up to $5 million. This broad coverage includes: general liability, excess/umbrella liability, workers’ compensation, property, auto and first and third party dishonesty …

Editor’s Note: Jackpot justice

Few political issues get the business community’s attention like tort reform. Not surprisingly, business owners do not like to be sued any more than they like paying higher insurance costs fueled by lawsuits. One of the most influential business lobbies, …

Berkshire’s Buffet, at Clinton Fundraiser, Tutors Dems on Business

Guests at a high-dollar New York fundraiser for presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton were treated to cocktails, dinner and an hourlong business tutorial from billionaire Warren Buffett. Buffett, the founder of the Omaha, Nebraska-based Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and one …

Report: Calif., Minn., N.J., N.C. Have Worst Traffic; N.D., S.C. Have Best Roads

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 highway performance report. “Gridlock isn’t going away,” said David …

Iowa Hawkeye Honors Agencies with 2006 Chairman’s Award

Iowa-based Hawkeye-Security Insurance, a member of Liberty Mutual Group’s Agency Markets business unit, recently recognized its highest performing agencies with the 2006 Chairman’s Award at meetings held in Kauai, Hawaii. Agencies earn the award when they achieve size, growth, and …

R. Waters Joins Liberty Mutual as Senior Account Executive for Midwest

Boston-based Liberty Mutual recently announced that Raymond Waters has joined the company as a senior account executive for its Major Accounts Division. Waters will be based in Chicago, with responsibilities for meeting the insurance needs of large companies throughout the …

People and Places

Kansas-based Brooke Franchise Corp., a subsidiary of Brooke Corp., elected Kyle L. Garst as its chairman and chief executive officer, and Dane S. Devlin as its president and chief operating officer. Garst was most recently national sales manager and senior …

People Kansas-based Brooke Franchise Corp., a subsidiary of Brooke Corp., elected Kyle L. Garst as its chairman and chief executive officer, and Dane S. Devlin as its president and chief operating officer. Garst was most recently national sales manager and …

Texas Approves 14 Companies to Self Insure for Workers’ Comp Claims

The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation announced that 14 companies with approximately 47,600 employees in Texas recently were approved to self-insure for workers’ compensation claims for a one-year period under the department’s self insurance program. Commissioner of …

Insurance Group Urges Repeal of Mo.’s Workers’ Comp Second Injury Fund