Vermont News

Recreational Watercraft

Nuts & Bolts: BVSA Marine Insurance is now offering coverage for recreational watercrafts up to 32 feet. Dollars: Liability limits of up to $500,000 are available. Deductibles range from 1 to 3 percent with no minimum premiums. Carrier: American Reliable …

Nonprofits’ Insurance Alliance of California Celebrates 15 Years

Nonprofits’ Insurance Alliance of California (NIAC), a nonprofit, charitable risk pool specializing in 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations, recently celebrated its 15th anniversary. NIAC, based in Santa Cruz, Calif., offers liability insurance to nonprofit entities of all sizes and estimates that it …

People & Places

Camilla Marlowe Camilla A. Marlowe was appointed vice president of Irvine, Calif.-based SullivanCurt-isMonroe Insurance Brokerage. Marlowe specializes in employee benefits consulting. She has 23 years of experience in the insurance industry. She previously spent six years with Calco in Orange, …

Recreational Watercraft

Nuts & Bolts: BVSA Marine Insurance is now offering coverage for recreational watercrafts up to 32 feet. Dollars: Liability limits of $500,000 are available. Deductibles range from 1 to 3 percent with no minimum premiums. Carrier: American Reliable rated “A,” …

VT. RULES IN SAME-SEX CUSTODY:

A Vermont Family Court judge has ruled that both members of a same-sex civil union are the legal parents of a child. Judge William Cohen’s decision is the latest twist in a nationally watched custody dispute that has produced conflicting …

Maine, N.H., Vt. Rules May Spur Attorney Competition

For Conn. Agents, Concern Over Privacy in Disclosure The ongoing investigation of brokerage commissions and alleged bid-rigging that started in New York is being felt everywhere, nowhere more so than neighboring Connecticut. Despite an agenda that ranged from identity theft …

Hilb Rogal & Hobbs Completes Acquisition of Vt.-based Smith, Bell & Thompson

Hilb Rogal & Hobbs Company announced the completion of the previously announced acquisition of the stock of Smith, Bell & Thompson Inc., a Vermont-based managing general underwriter (MGU) with 2003 revenue of more than $13.5 million. With national specialty programs …

FirstComp Lands Spot on Inc.’s 500 List

Omaha, Neb.-based workers’ compensation carrier FirstComp Insurance Co. has landed a spot Inc. magazine’s 23rd annual list of the 500 fastest-growing private companies in the country. FirstComp, which serves small- and medium-sized businesses through independent agencies, was awarded its first-ever …

Smith Named Beecher Carlson Managing Director

Beecher Carlson Holdings Inc. of Atlanta has announced the appointment of Robert “Robbie” C. Smith as a managing director. Smith will focus on acquisition opportunities and talent recuritment. Smith spent the majority of his career working with insurance agencies and …

Coloring by Numbers

The vote tallies in the presidential and congressional races suggest this is a blue region (with the exception of Virginia) but that is probably not true of the insurance community here or elsewhere. Purple, maybe; blue, doubtful. Blue voters can …