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Non-franchised Auto DealersNuts & Bolts: DMI Insurance Services Inc. has expanded the range of markets it supplies to producers serving non-franchised auto dealers and automotive specialty shops. The new markets will supply liability and physical damage coverage not been readily …

Teflon, nanotechnology, welding fumes: environmental risks abound

Anticipating and assessing risk, along with defining and assigning value to units of exposure are basic components of an insurance underwriter’s job. Challenging as such tasks are when examining well-known exposures, they become doubly daunting when faced with previously unknown …

New Markets

Universal ExcessNuts & Bolts: The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. introduced Universal Excess, a new excess insurance policy that fits firmly over directors and officers, fiduciary, employment practice, miscellaneous professional and tech errors and omissions products issued by any insurer. …

New Markets

New Markets Nuts & Bolts: DMI Insurance Services Inc. has expanded the range of markets it supplies to producers serving non-franchised auto dealers and automotive specialty shops. The new markets will supply liability and physical damage coverage not been readily …

New Markets

New Markets Nuts & Bolts: The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. introduced Universal Excess, a new excess insurance policy that fits firmly over directors and officers, fiduciary, employment practice, miscellaneous professional and tech errors and omissions products issued by any …

Environmental

Anticipating and assessing risk, along with defining and assigning value to units of exposure are basic components of an insurance underwriter’s job. Challenging as such tasks are when examining well-known exposures, they become doubly daunting when faced with previously unknown …

Sloan Sentenced on W.Va. Workers’ Comp Fraud Charge

Charles Albert Sloan has been sentenced on one count of wrongfully seeking workers’ compensation benefits and one count of fraudulently obtaining a controlled substance, both felonies, according to West Virginia Insurance Commissioner Jane L. Cline. Sloan, of Elkins, W. Va. …

GE Insurance Solutions: Legal Reform Momentum Continues

Victories and defeats in the courtroom can impact the nation’s economy, with potential consequences for decades to come. GE Insurance Solutions has been tracking and shaping efforts to level the litigation playing field – variously called tort reform or legal …

Gov. Rendell Orders Inspections of Pa. Mines Within 30 Days

Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell this week ordered follow-up inspections of the state’s active underground mines in the next 30 days, citing the deaths of 16 mine workers in West Virginia since early January. He also asked mine operators to observe …

M&T Buys Maryland’s Hess Egan

M&T Insurance Agency, Inc. has acquired Hess Egan Hagerty & L’Hommedieu, Inc., a commercial insurance and surety brokerage agency based in Chevy Chase, Maryland, with additional offices in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Hess Egan will operate as a division of …