ProAssurance Corporation and Physicians Insurance Company of Wisconsin, Inc. have agreed to merge PIC Wisconsin into ProAssurance through a proposed stock-for-stock transaction. The medical malpractice insurance companies said that the merger will expand ProAssurance’s presence in the upper Midwest and …
Wayne Bates Burns & Wilcox, a national specialty insurance managing general agency, has promoted Wayne Bates to director of the company’s Special Risk Division (SRD), International and promoted him to associate vice president. Bates previously served as director of Burns …
A federal court judge dismissed the final three claims yesterday in an Independent Glass Association (IGA)-backed lawsuit against Safelite Group, Inc., parent company of Safelite Solutions LLC and Safelite Fulfillment, Inc. The ruling was made by Judge Ann D. Montgomery …
ILLINOIS Crop Insurance for African Farmers: Opportunity International, a global microfinance network based in Oak Brook, Ill., announced its partnership with the World Bank and its affiliated IFT Commodity Management Group to provide index-based weather insurance to rural farmers in …
Burns & Wilcox, a national specialty insurance managing general agency, has promoted Wayne Bates to director of the company’s Special Risk Division (SRD), International and promoted him to associate vice president. Bates previously served as director of Burns & Wilcox’s …
Piles of snow and icy roads definitely were not what most Thanksgiving travelers wanted to deal with on their way home from the long holiday weekend. Meantime, tornadoes tore through several states damaging properties. Hundreds of miles of major roadways …
Harleysville Insurance today named the leaders of its new regional field organization, which realigns the company’s existing network of field offices into four geographic zones. The appointments include: Clinton Bothwell, Southeast regional president; William D. Granato, Midwest regional president; Brandon …
The arrests of eight members of an alleged staged-crash-ring, accused of filing more than $100,000 in fraudulent insurance claims from a single staged accident have be announced by Florida’s CFO Tom Gallagher. Brothers and suspected ringleaders Jimmy Desir, 27, and …
Nebraska state employees will pay 22.1 percent more for health insurance next year, after union representatives and administrators failed to reach a compromise. The rising premiums will cost taxpayers about $21.4 million over the next year because the state, as …
Lawmakers Pass Kids’ Health Plan: The Illinois House passed H.B. 806, Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s “All Kids” health insurance program on a 79-28 vote, following Senate approval on a 32-23 vote. The program is aimed at parents who earn too much …
