Utah News

Liberty International Offers Travel Professionals’ E&O Program

Liberty International Underwriters (LIU), a division of Liberty Mutual Group, and Travel Professionals Insurance Network (TPIN), a service of MPP Co. Inc., have partnered to offer a new travel professionals errors and omissions insurance product, which is available in 32 …

Effort to Block Wal-Mart, Berkshire Hathaway Banks Gaining Support

With Wal-Mart and Home Depot among a record number of companies awaiting federal approval to open banks, legislation to block this special kind of bank is gaining momentum, a senior House lawmaker said. Thirteen companies, a record number, have joined …

Berkshire Hathaway, Wal-Mart Among 14 Firms Lining Up to Start Banks

Thirteen companies, a record number, have joined controversy-stirring Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in the pipeline for approval from federal regulators to establish a special kind of bank, agency records show. The companies, which include The Home Depot Inc. and Warren Buffett’s …

Business Moves

Arthur J. Gallagher, Lemac & Associates Itasca, Ill.-based Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced that its subsidiary, Risk Placement Services Inc., acquired Lemac & Associates Inc., headquartered in Los Angeles, Calif. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in …

New Markets

Outdoor Sports Nuts & Bolts: Markel’s Outdoors is a niche program for guide and outfitting professionals, private sporting clubs and hunting/fishing lodges. Marketed through select retail insurance agents. Dollars: Limits $300 to $1 million. Minimum premiums based on $1 million …

New Markets

Equipment Policies Nuts & Bolts: Britt Paulk Insurance Agency Inc. is offering an equipment policy program that includes agriculture, forestry, construction and lawn and garden. The coverage is first party physical damage for contractors’ equipment. Classes include contractors, agricultural, forestry, …

Lawyers Overseeing Layers

No country has as many lawyers as the United States — more than 152,000 in California alone — three times as many as in all of France. Nor does any other country rely as heavily on the legal profession to …

New Markets

Outdoor Sports Nuts & Bolts: Markel’s Outdoors is a niche program for guide and outfitting professionals, private sporting clubs and hunting/fishing lodges. Marketed through select retail insurance agents. Dollars: Limits $300 to $1 million. Minimum premiums based on $1 million …

Lawyers Overseeing Lawyers: Can lawyers police themselves? A new look at self-regulation

No country has as many lawyers as the United States – more than 152,000 in California alone – three times as many as in all of France. Nor does any other country rely as heavily on the legal profession to …

Risk and Insurance Management Society Hosts Western Conference

Risk and Imsurance Management Society is hosting its Western Regional Conference in Park City, Utah, on Oct. 1-4, 2006. Speakers will include: Carol Fox, Convergys Corp.; Mike Keeting, Crisis Management International; Steve Legg, Starbucks Coffee Co.; Mike Fenlon, UPS; Janice …