Colemont Insurance Brokers has promoted Tara Plourde to broker in the company’s Hartford, Connecticut office. She joined Colemont in 2008. Prior to Colemont, she was a commercial lines underwriter at a standard lines carrier. She specializes in casualty accounts, focusing …
Flooding Costs Are Outweighed by Regional Economic Benefits There are hundreds of levees around the United States that protect vulnerable areas and tens of millions of people from potentially devastating floods each year. Yet hardly anyone gives them a second …
Flooding Control Costs Are Outweighed by Regional Economic Benefits, Study Finds There are hundreds of levees across the U.S. — from Miami to Los Angeles and Detroit to New Orleans- that protect vulnerable areas and tens of millions of people …
Hopes for stronger world action in 2010 to curb climate change have dimmed after the U.S. Democrats lost a key Senate seat to a Republican opposed to capping emissions, experts said Wednesday. The election of Republican Scott Brown, an opponent …
Liberty Mutual Group is expanding its program offerings for Wisconsin schools available through its partnership with the Wisconsin Association of School Boards (WASB) Insurance Plan. Effective immediately, the WASB Insurance Plan will offer insurance coverage through Pewaukee-based Indiana Insurance, a …
Somali pirates released a Greek supertanker and its crew of 28 on Monday after a rival pirate group attacked the pirates onboard in an unsuccessful attempt to steal the ransom, the spokesman for the European Union’s anti-piracy force said. Cmdr. …
Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland has fined a Tennessee company and two of its affiliates $25,000 each for violating a cease and desist order she issued in November of last year. According to the order, the company has been illegally …
The Hanover Insurance Group Inc.’s CEO Frederick H. Eppinger expects the western United States to be a key growth driver for the super-regional insurer in the next several years. Having just entered into a renewal rights agreement with OneBeacon Insurance …
Troops and planeloads of food and medicine trickled in to Haiti Thursday to aid a traumatized nation still rattled by aftershocks from the catastrophic earthquake that flattened homes and government buildings and buried countless people. The Haitian Red Cross said …
Los Angeles-based Mercury General Corp. will will release results for its fourth quarter and 12 month period ended Dec. 31, 2009, on Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. The company will host an investor conference call and Webcast that same day at …
