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Liberty Mutual Alternative Markets Adds Three Execs to Management Team

Liberty Mutual Alternative Markets has appointed Chris Ridge as managing director of captive management, Sue Urie as captive management consultant and Eliot Pardee as underwriting manager. Ridge, Urie and Pardee increase the company’s U.S. captive management operations and its focus …

Romney Auto Reforms Hit Roadblocks from Mass. Agents and Court

When the chief executive officer of the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America spoke before the Virginia Big “I” recently, he snuck in several digs at liberal-leaning Massachusetts, at one point expressing disapproval of a state where government sets …

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MASSACHUSETTS Romney Would Require Insurance: Gov. Mitt Romney would require every person in the state to have health insurance under his plan for universal health coverage, which he has dubbed the Safety Net Care proposal. The Safety Net plan is …

Nationwide’s Allied Insurance Looking for Agents in South and East

The independent agency arm of giant Nationwide Insurance is expanding and looking for agents in the East and South. Allied Insurance now has more than 4,500 independent agency locations in the West and Midwest. It began writing personal and small …

Romney Auto Reforms Hit Roadblocks from Mass. Agents and Court

Mass. Agents Oppose Competitive Rating; Court Blocks Residual Market Reform When the chief executive officer of the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America spoke before the Virginia Big “I” recently, he snuck in several digs at liberal-leaning Massachusetts, at …

WORKERS’ COMP REFUNDS EXPECTED:

The New Hampshire Insurance Department reported that a number of businesses should be getting workers’ compensation insurance refunds beginning next month. The workers compensation rating organization, the National Council on Compensation Insurance, is recalculating the rates because of errors in …

Nationwide’s Allied Insurance Looking for Agents in South and East

The independent agency arm of giant Nationwide Insurance is expanding and looking for agents in the East and South. Allied Insurance now has more than 4,500 independent agency locations in the West and Midwest. It began writing personal and small …

Kemper Auto and Home Unveils Real-Time Rating in Conn. Via SETWrite

Rackley Solutions has joined with personal lines carrier Kemper Auto and Home (KAH) to launch a real-time connection allowing KAH’s Connecticut agents access to auto rates through SETWrite, Rackley’s new Web-based rating product which allows agents to enter information once …

AIA Throws Support Behind Mass. Workers’ Comp Competitive Rating Bill

A bill that would bring a competitive rating system to the Massachusetts workers’ compensation system would be good for the state’s economy, according to the American Insurance Association (AIA). AIA testified before the legislature’s Joint Labor and Workforce Development Committee …

Vt. Governor Signs Bills for Firefighters’ Workers’ Comp, Fire-Safe Cigarettes

Vermont Gov. James Douglas has signed into law two bills, one designed to prevent cigarette-related fire deaths and the other to financially protect firefighters who suffer heart attacks in the line of duty. One law calls for all cigarettes sold …