December 15, 2006
Two investigators with the North Carolina Department of Insurance, Chet Effler of Marion, N.C., and Martha Ann Ford of Chester, S.C., have been honored for their work on insurance fraud cases in 2006. Effler received an award from Travelers Insurance …
December 11, 2006
Monoline Auto Classes, Small Commercial Businesses Nuts & Bolts: Zurich’s small business agents now have more than 500 monoline auto classes to sell. The company has opened an additional 257 existing America Premier classes for monoline auto and added 238 …
December 11, 2006
4% The increase in medical malpractice premiums collected by insurers in 2005 over 2004 in Tennessee. Insurers collected $341 million. Insurers paid out about 14 percent more in Tennessee cases in 2005 than the year before, including $119 million in …
December 11, 2006
Coastal Property — Texas Nuts & Bolts: Western Security Surplus has increased capacity to write coastal property coverage in Texas, including wind and hail, Tier 1 and 2 counties. The property coverage is offered via a non-admitted “A” rated market …
December 11, 2006
The Texas Surplus Lines Association Inc. announced the election of the following officers and directors: President Len Kaplan, executive vice president and CFO, Delta General Agency, Houston; Vice President Lana Parks, president, The Parks Group Inc., Arlington; and Secretary/Treasurer Paul …
December 11, 2006
The state’s top elected leaders have agreed to transfer 96 positions from a deteriorating Division of Motor Vehicles call center in Raleigh to a building in southeast North Carolina. The center handles more than 20,000 calls a week from motorists, …
December 11, 2006
Regulators want to make sure that insurers are serving the urban market appropriately, according to Illinois Insurance Director Michael T. McRaith, who spoke at a recent workshop sponsored by the Chicago-based Urban Insurance Partners Institute (UIPI), a nonprofit insurance industry …
December 11, 2006
Trucking Operations Nuts & Bolts: Kansas-based Interstate Insurance Management and Swiss Re’s Commercial Insurance announce the immediate expansion of their insurance program for the trucking industry into Virginia and Indiana. The program, which has been in operation since 1970, provides …
December 11, 2006
Monoline Auto Classes, Small Commercial Nuts & Bolts: Zurich’s small business agents now have more than 500 monoline auto classes to sell. The company has opened an additional 257 existing America Premier classes for monoline auto and added 238 new …
December 11, 2006
The van Aartrijk Group LLC, a Washington, D.C.-area marketing and communications firm, is augmenting its branding and public affairs capabilities with the promotion of one executive and addition of another, according to Peter van Aartrijk, chief executive officer. Maureen P. …