Zurich has named Mario P. Vitale as chief executive officer of its Global Corporate North America operations, effective Oct. 2. In this newly created position, Vitale will report to Geoff Riddell, CEO of Zurich Global Corporate, and will work closely …
Marshall & Swift / Boeckh (MSB) promoted Karen Linnell to assistant vice president, Personal Lines Insurance Technologies. Previously, she was the director of MSB’s Residential Estimating Products and the InterChange product offering. Linnell is based at MSB’s New Berlin, Wisc., …
Western National Insurance Group (WNIG), based in Edina, Minn., today announced that its President and CEO Stuart C. Henderson, JD, CPCU, has been re-elected for a three-year term as a director for the Insurance Federation of Minnesota. He will also …
The Phoenix Group, an independent insurance agency and employee benefits company based in Ripon, Wis., recently purchased Union Bank Insurance Group, based in Peru, Ill., marking the agency’s fifth acquisition in five years. The purchase, according to The Phoenix Group …
Markel Amerincan Insurnace Company (MAIC) iannouned recently that Nancy Kane has been named to the newly-created position of business development director and Kevin Behringer is a new marketing associate. Kane comes to MAIC with more than 20 years of marketing …
Hawkeye-Security Insurance, a member of Liberty Mutual Group, has added Blue Valley Insurance Agency located in Overland Park, Kan., and Garry & Associates Insurance Agency located in North Kansas City, Mo. to its growing family of appointed independent agents. Blue …
Test results linking two bags of Dole brand baby spinach to a deadly E. coli strain have helped health officials hone in on a specific batch from a San Juan Bautista, Calif., processing plant that may be the source of …
Spinach grown outside California’s Salinas Valley got the all-clear from U.S. health officials, but it could be days before the leafy green returns to store shelves. An ongoing outbreak of E. coli linked to spinach has sickened 166 people in …
The nationwide recall of bags of fresh spinach due to the contamination of some brands by the E. coli virus might not have affected Popeye at all — he ate his essential greens out of a can. However, it’s obvious …
A California natural foods company has been linked to a nationwide E. coli outbreak that has killed one person and sickened nearly 100 others. Food and Drug Administration officials said that they received reports of illness in 19 states. Twenty-nine …
