The 10th edition of the European Insurance Forum wrapped up proceedings on Tuesday night. The two-day conference, held at Dublin’s Four Seasons Hotel and sponsored by the Dublin Insurance & Management Association (DIMA), focused on some major issues of worldwide …
Explosive eruptions and noxious gas emissions at Kilauea Volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii have prompted scientists to work around the clock to understand what will happen next and how to keep the public out of harm’s way. Scientists …
Atlanta-based Assurant Specialty Property, expanded the benefit choices available through its First Protector® mortgage protection product and launched a redesigned Web site. Recent enhancements to the supplemental homeowner insurance program include: -A broader coverage definition to allow for condominiums, multifamily …
Explosive eruptions and noxious gas emissions at Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii this week have prompted scientists to work around the clock to understand what will happen next and how to keep the public out of harm’s way. Scientists are monitoring …
Specialists arrived in Port Wentworth, Ga., Tuesday to help extinguish a five-day-old sugar-refinery fire burning too intensely and deeply for standard firefighting to douse, and officials feared the deadly blaze could once again trigger explosions. Thick masses of molten sugar …
$62,000 Los Angeles-based Farmers Group Inc. announced it gave $62,000 to the La Jolla Band of Mission Indians to help rebuild after the Southern California fires of 2007. Farmers Executive Vice President of Field Operations Jerry Carnahan said over half …
Development has surged in parts of the Big Island at high risk of being covered in lava ever since the state started providing homeowner’s insurance to such areas. The 15-year-old program provides more than 2,400 policies to homes that private …
A small state like Alaska sometimes has trouble convincing the property/casualty insurance industry of creating opportunities in its state. So Alaska Director of Insurance Linda Hall relies on her experiences as a former high school English teacher to school others …
A powerful earthquake off western Indonesia triggered warnings of a potentially destructive tsunami across much of the Indian Ocean region Wednesday, meteorological agencies said. [IJ Ed. Note: Several powerful aftershocks also triggered Tsunami warnings, but as of 7:00 a.m. EDT, …
Hawaii lawmakers are prepared to approve a bill Tuesday that brings back government oversight of health insurance rates a year after they deregulated them. Members of both houses of the Legislature have agreed on a final bill, and Gov. Linda …
