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

It Figures

6% The decrease in traffic fatalities on Tennessee’s roadways since 2004, the year after the state lowered the minimum blood-alcohol content to 0.08 percent for drunken driving offenses in 2003. A year later the state began allowing police officers to …

New Markets

Long Haul Trucking Program Nuts & Bolts: M.J. Hall and Co. Inc. has a program for long haul truckers garaged in California. It covers liability, physical damage, cargo and trucker’s general liability. The program also covers: Ag haulers, intermodal operations, …

New Markets

N.J. Coastal Property Nuts & Bolts: McSweeny Agency of New Jersey is offering coverage on boardwalk stores, ocean front, bay front, condos, dwellings, and seasonal commercial properties. Dollars: $100,000 to $1 million. Carrier: Rated “A+” by A.M. Best. Non-admitted. States: …

People

Chicago-based The Park Group, a wholesale insurance brokerage has announced the promotion of Peter Upjohn to the position of manager of the newly established Professional Liability Brokerage Department. Upjohn is responsible for the majority of the professional liability lines of …

New Markets

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

Figures

6% The decrease in traffic fatalities on Tennessee’s roadways since 2004, the year after the state lowered the minimum blood-alcohol content to 0.08 percent for drunken driving offenses in 2003. A year later the state began allowing police officers to …

People

Privately owned insurance and risk management firm, McQueary Henry Bowles Troy L.L.P., has named Mike Rutledge a partner. Rutledge is a vice president in MHBT’s Fort Worth, Texas, office. Rutledge’s career in the insurance field spans 30 years. Prior to …

Business Moves

Aon, Footman James Chicago-based Aon Corp. completed the acquisition of Footman James from Alchemy Partners Ltd. based in Guernsey. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The transaction will have no effect on existing policies, and client service will continue …

New Markets

Long Haul Trucking Program Nuts & Bolts: M.J. Hall and Co. Inc. has a program for long haul truckers garaged in California. It covers liability, physical damage, cargo and trucker’s general liability. The program also covers: Ag haulers, intermodal operations, …