Wyoming News

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Horse Tracks Nuts & Bolts: A program specifically tailored for horse tracks is available through American Specialty Insurance & Risk Services Inc. Coverages available include: general liability (participant legal liability, volunteers as additional insureds, sexual abuse / molestation); excess / …

My New Markets

Community Associations Nuts & Bolts: Apogee Insurance Group is offering a new program for eligible classes for this product that includes homeowners, town homes and condominium associations, planned unit developments, mobile home parks, office parks and cooperatives. EPLI is included …

Business Moves

Titan, Eastwood THI Holdings (Delaware) Inc., a Nationwide company, through one of its agency subsidiaries, has acquired the assets of Anaheim Hills, Calif.-based Eastwood Insurance Services Inc. for $217 million. Eastwood Insurance operates 47 multi-line agencies in California, Texas, Florida, …

My New Markets

Outbreak Extra Expense Nuts & Bolts: American Underwriting Managers is now offering a product designed to provide businesses with insurance coverage in the event that their business operations are suspended by a public health official due to a covered contagion …

News Currents

Critics: Wyoming medical review panels aren’t lowering premiums Critics of panels that review medical malpractice cases in Wyoming say the oversight has not lowered the cost of medical malpractice insurance. Voters in 2004 amended the state constitution to allow the …

Insurers try to prevent losses in wildfire hotspots

Spooked by devastating wildfire seasons, the nation’s top insurers are inspecting homes in high-risk areas throughout the West and threatening to cancel coverage if owners don’t clear brush or take other precautions. The inspections have angered homeowners and watchdog groups …

My New Markets

Horse Tracks Nuts & Bolts: A program specifically tailored for horse tracks is available through American Specialty Insurance & Risk Services Inc. Coverages available include: general liability (participant legal liability, volunteers as additional insureds, sexual abuse / molestation); excess / …

My New Markets

Ace USA Makes Senior Level Appointments in San Francisco

Ace USA, the U.S.-based retail operating division of the Ace Group of Companies, announced that Brian Witzmann has been appointed senior vice president and regional executive officer for Ace USA’s Northwest Region, and Stephen Dennison has been named client executive. …

HRH to Acquire Denver Broker Urman

Large insurance broker Hilb Rogal & Hobbs Co., based in Richmond, Va., has agreed to acquire the stock of The Urman Co., a Denver-based retail employee benefits and property and casualty brokerage. Terms of the transaction, which is expected to …