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Synergy Professional Associates Announces New Policy, Focusing on Small Hard-to-Place Law Firms

August 26, 2009 – Kinnelon, NJ – Synergy Professional Associates announces new broadened policy language to their Lawyers Professional Liability Program, which focuses on small hard-to-place law firms. The new policy provides the following coverage enhancements include Loss of Earnings; …

Tropical Storm May Form Today

The U.S. National Hurricane Center said an area of disturbed weather centered about 470 miles east of Nassau in the Bahamas could become the season’s latest tropical depression, or more likely, tropical storm, later Wednesday. But forecast tracks so far …

Total U.S. Workers’ Compensation Payments to Injured Workers Slow

Employers Direct Sheds Direct Calif. Workers’ Comp; Will Return with Brokers

Just a short time after announcing it was leaving the California workers’ compensation insurance market because it was not profitable, Employers Direct Insurance Co. is announcing it is back. The Southern-California-based company said yesterday that it has signed a definitive …

Bailed Out Firms Making Compensation Subject to Government Approval

Citigroup Inc., Bank of America Corp. and AIG are forging new employment contracts that let them void compensation agreements if they are challenged by the U.S. government, according to a person familiar with some recent contracts. According to excerpts of …

Krauze Named President for North American Retail Unit Willis HRH

Global insurance broker Willis Group Holdings has named Vic Krauze as president of Willis HRH, its North American retail business. Krauze will retain his current responsibilities as chief operating officer of Willis HRH and will continue to report to Don …

Huge Hacking Case Highlights Companies’ Vulnerability to Breaches

Consumers and companies are vulnerable to hackers and identity thieves even after U.S. authorities arrested a man they said was a master hacker who stole 170 million credit and debit card numbers. Estimates on the total financial impact of breaches …

Hurricane Bill to Pass Between Bermuda, U.S. Coast Saturday

Hurricane Bill became less organized Friday as it pursued a path that would take it between Bermuda and the eastern United States, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Bill, a Category 3 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale with steady 120 …

Hurricane Bill Continues on Course; Bermuda on Alert

Hurricane Bill continues to follow the trajectory forecast by the National Hurricane Center in Miami. The storm remains a Category 3 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of around 115 mph, 185 km/hr, with higher gusts. According to the latest NHC …

Hurricane Bill Could Bring Dangerous Swells, Rip Currents to U.S. East Coast

Powerful Hurricane Bill, a dangerous Category 4 storm with 135 mph winds, raged across the open Atlantic Wednesday, days from land but on a path that could menace Canada’s eastern provinces next week. Sweeping past the Caribbean islands and posing …