They go by many names — networks, alliances, franchises, clusters and aggregators — but all have similar goals. Aggregator groups have been around the insurance industry for more than three decades but in the past few years they have become …
Bowing to pressure from insurers and agent groups, Massachusetts safety regulators have eased new, workers’ comp paperwork requirements for some out-of-state contractors. At issue is a form used by inspectors to verify whether a non-Massachusetts company doing business in the …
Connecticut-based managing general agency Business Risk Partners has named Mark Bradway as director of broker relations. He has worked in specialty liability for over a decade. He began his career at wholesale insurance broker Swett & Crawford in Los Angeles …
Republicans were not only victorious in the U.S. House but also in state houses across the country. Tuesday night’s GOP power will give the party its largest number of seats in state legislatures since the Great Depression, according to the …
A Manhattan woman has failed to persuade a U.S. appeals court that Starbucks Corp should be held liable for severe burns she suffered after spilling tea served in a double cup. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Tuesday …
The Professional Insurance Agents of New York honored the late Camilla Belser, former vice president and regional manager of Merchants Insurance Group, as its executive of the year from the Hudson Valley region. Belser died of cancer earlier this year. …
Insurer American International Group will get up to $22 billion more in U.S. taxpayer funds in a restructuring that will pay off the Federal Reserve in full and allow taxpayers to begin profiting from the firm’s bailout, the Treasury Department …
A Long Island woman claims her one night at the Waldorf Astoria hotel has cost her $13,000 because her room was infested with bedbugs that came home with her. Susanne Igneri filed a lawsuit against the upscale Manhattan hotel last …
A New York judge held former American International Group Inc. Chief Executive Maurice “Hank” Greenberg liable for damages on a reinsurance transaction that state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said helped the insurer hide losses. New York State Supreme Court Justice …
A suburban New York City man has filed a lawsuit that claims he got mercury poisoning from eating 10 cans of tuna a week. Lee Porrazzo, of White Plains, filed the suit against Bumble Bee Foods. He’s asking for unspecified …
