Utah News

Texas Best, Vermont Worst Tort Climate for Jobs, Capital Investment, Claims New Study

In the competition for jobs and capital investment among the states, those states that suffer from high tort costs will continue to lose jobs and businesses to states with superior tort systems, according to a new report by the Pacific …

IJ’s Top 100 Highlights Nation’s Largest Privately-Held Independent Agencies

Insurance Journal released its third annual Top 100 Property Casualty Independent Agencies list late last month and one of the nation’s largest networks of retail agencies came in as number one. Leading the pack of the nation’s largest privately-held P/C …

Networked Insurance Agents Appoints Staffhorst as Territorial Sales Vice President in the Rocky Mountain Region

Networked Insurance Agents, a professional account placement organization headquartered in Grass Valley, Calif., has appointed Will Staffhorst as territorial sales vice president, in Colorado, New Mexico and Utah. Staffhorst previously was with Fireman’s Fund, where he was business development manager …

People

Carol Sipe has been named vice president and general manager of operations; Francis “Fran” Graham has been named Southeast director of sales; and Chris Neyrey has been named Southwest director of sales and agency relations of the Lakeland, Fla.-based Summit, …

New Markets

HO-3 Homeowners in Texas Nuts & Bolts: The Republic Group, based in Dallas, introduced a new Homeowners Form 3 product in Texas. The company said the HO-3 is modeled after the ISO Homeowner form and is an all-perils product with …

Report: Intermountain HealthCare Doesn’t Engage in Unfair Practices

Utah’s largest owner of hospitals and commercial health plans doesn’t appear to engage in unfair business practices, according to a consultant’s report. In a 94-page study of the state’s insurance and hospital markets, as well as physician and other health-care …

New Markets

HO-3 Homeowners in TexasTITLE: Nuts & Bolts: The Republic Group, based in Dallas, introduced a new Homeowners Form 3 product in Texas. The company said the HO-3 is modeled after the ISO Homeowner form and is an all-perils product with …

People and Places

Carol Sipe has been named vice president and general manager of operations; Francis “Fran” Graham has been named Southeast director of sales; and Chris Neyrey has been named Southwest director of sales and agency relations of the Lakeland, Fla.-based Summit, …

Business Moves

CBIZ, Burnham, Colman, Kaelin, & Walker CBIZ Inc. announced it has acquired Burnham, Colman, Kaelin & Walker of St. Joseph, Mo., effective April 1, 2006. Originally founded in 1899 and with offices in St. Joseph and Kansas City, BCK&W is …

RiskMeter’s Distance to Fire Station Report Adds Six States

Boston, Mass.-based CDS Business Mapping LLC., an online property risk mapping, announced that AR, KY, NM, OK, TN, and UT have been added to the RiskMeter Online’s (www.RiskMeter.com) Distance to Fire Station Report, bringing the total number of states to …