January 28, 2007
Real Estate Appraisers Nuts & Bolts: San Diego-based AMIS (Alliance Marketing and Insurance Services) is offering broader package policies for real estate appraisers handling residential and commercial property. This policy offers commercial general liability coupled with errors and omissions and …
January 26, 2007
Insurance may be local, but it doesn’t have to be handled exclusively in the state, or even the country, where it’s needed. For the surplus lines market that means Lloyd’s, which explains the annual visit to London of the top …
January 26, 2007
A bulletin from the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) confirmed that the island had “recorded a three-year high for (re)insurance company incorporations during 2006, with an almost 10 percent increase in the number of new (re)insurance companies incorporated in the jurisdiction …
January 26, 2007
Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Julie Benafield Bowman has been elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Southeastern Zone of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), her office announced. Becoming an officer of the Zone elevates Bowman to the Executive Committee of the NAIC. …
January 25, 2007
A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘A’ (Excellent) of Main Street America Group (MSAG) and its four members led by NGM Insurance Co. and including affiliated insurers Main Street America Assurance Co., MSA Insurance Co. (South …
January 22, 2007
Four families have sued News Corp. and its MySpace social-networking site after their underage daughters were sexually abused by adults they met on the site, according to lawyers for the families. The law firms, Barry & Loewy LLP of Austin, …
January 19, 2007
The Hon. Tommy G. Thompson, former governor of Wisconsin and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, has accepted an invitation to be the keynote speaker at an annual executive conference sponsored by the American Association of Insurance Services (AAIS). …
January 8, 2007
GL for Builders, Contractors, Artisans Nuts & Bolts: Golden Insurance Co. RRG extended its commercial general liability coverage for builders, general contractors and artisans to $1 million/$1 million. Coverage is offered on a claims-made basis, and most builder trade classes …
January 8, 2007
The new year will force about a third of South Carolina’s drivers to dig deeper into their wallets to pay for auto insurance. A little-debated change in state law requires drivers to buy minimum liability coverage of $25,000 for a …
January 8, 2007
Professional Liability Beauticians Nuts & Bolts: All policies are packaged premises and professional. $3million aggregate is available. Program is self-rating. Dollars: $100,000 to $3 million. Carrier: Lloyds of London, rated “A” XV by A. M. Best. Non-admitted. States: All. Contact: …