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Trucking Auto Physical Damage Nuts & Bolts: AIX Group Inc., a specialty insurance holding company, has formed a new program to provide automobile physical damage coverage to commercial trucking operations. This program will be targeting operations with above average loss …

It Figures

$520,000 The amount Citizens Property Insurance Corp. paid out in claims payments to policyholders affected by the Feb. 2 tornadoes in the first few days, according to the company. Tim Loftin, senior vice president of claims for Citizens, said the …

Declarations

No need to be unkind “It’s not a popular position. I’ve had people who have said unkind things. I’ve had people who say I need to be replaced.” — Arkansas State Sen. Kim Hendren, R-Gravette, commenting on the unlikelihood that …

Editor’s Note: (Un)funny money

Hawaii may have its hurricanes, California has its earthquakes and floods, and Colorado (at least this year) has cumulative snowfalls nearly a mile high. Yet in 2006, the Midwest — not West — won in the unfortunate disaster lottery. While …

New Markets

Hospitality Program Nuts & Bolts: Underwriters at PLIS are offering The Hospitality program, written on Lloyd’s paper covering named perils ranging from Aeromonas hydrophila to Yersinia enterocolotica. The policy has the benefit of: a “trade name trigger;” up to 25 …

My New Markets

Trucking Auto Physical Damage Nuts & Bolts: AIX Group Inc., a specialty insurance holding company, has formed a new program to provide automobile physical damage coverage to commercial trucking operations. This program will be targeting operations with above average loss …

Declarations

Robber baron “We’re looking a robber baron in the face. State Farm is not a responsible corporate citizen.” Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood fighting a recent decision by State Farm Insurance Co. to stop writing new home and commercial property …

Figures

$520,000 The amount Citizens Property Insurance Corp. paid out in claims payments to policyholders affected by the Feb. 2 tornadoes in the first few days, according to the company. Tim Loftin, senior vice president of claims for Citizens, said the …

New Markets

Trucking Auto Physical Damage Nuts & Bolts: AIX Group Inc., a specialty insurance holding company, has formed a new program to provide automobile physical damage coverage to commercial trucking operations. This program will be targeting operations with above average loss …

Business Moves

Royal & Sun A state hearing officer recommended Delaware’s insurance commissioner approve the proposed management buyout and eventual dissolution of Royal and Sun Alliance Insurance Group’s U.S. operations. The subject of a lengthy hearing last month, the proposed buyout awaits …