Cleveland, Ohio-based employee benefits and accounting services firm CBIZ, Inc. has acquired MeyersDining, LLC, an insurance agency located in Boulder, Colorado, the company announced. Founded in 2005 with the merger of firms owned by Gary Meyers and Elizabeth Dining, MeyersDining …
Investors in a class-action lawsuit against Bank of America Corp. over the Merrill Lynch & Co. takeover are trying to collect “billions of dollars” in damages, Ohio’s attorney general said Monday. Attorney General Richard Cordray spoke after filing a 155-page …
Cincinnati, Ohio-based Great American Insurance Company’s Executive Liability Division (ELD) has added professional liability coverage for small accounts. The company introduced as part of its ExecPro suite of management liability products the ExecPro Professional Liability Solution, designed to address a …
Beginning Jan. 1, 2010, workers’ compensation premiums for Ohio’s Public Employer Taxing Districts (PECs) will drop by an average of 17 percent. The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) Board of Directors, which announced the rate increase, said the PECs …
The State Auto Insurance Companies, based in Columbus, Ohio, now offer customized Marriage Identity Services, enhancing the lineup of identity protection services available to State Auto policyholders. Through a partnership with Identity Theft 911, a provider of identity theft management, …
Aggressive Insurance, based in Irving, Texas, has announced a new aircraft insurance program. Aggressive is initially introducing the program in Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Oklahoma and Texas. The program administrator expects approvals in up to 40 states during the …
A former university student says in a lawsuit she was raped by a bus driver hired as part of Antioch University’s overseas study program. The student alleges in a lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court that she was raped …
A.M. Best Co. has assigned a debt rating of “a-” to the new issuance of $300 million 7.35 percent 10-year senior unsecured notes of W. R. Berkley Corporation, and has assigned them a stable outlook. Proceeds from the current offering …
Starting Nov. 2, 2009, Ohio regulators and all insurance companies that do business in the state will begin new procedures designed to protect policyholders’ personal information. Insurance companies will be required to report any loss of policyholder information within their …
Regulators Say Fingerprinting Keeps Criminals Out of the Business Don’t be alarmed, but there are convicted criminals roaming around the country acting as insurance producers. They could be robbers, forgers, possibly even rapists. They got their producer licenses in states …
