All the headlines from our Aviation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 12 2005 // Lockton Companies Inc., the nation’s largest privately owned insurance broker, has appointed Robert Hopson as a vice president, aviation specialist in its commercial insurance group, property/casualty division in its...
Jul 21 2005 // Acordia Inc. announced it has named Charles (Charlie) Tooley as vice president – Aviation Practice. Based in Acordia’s Cincinnati, Ohio, office, Tooley will be focusing on the production of aviation-related...
Jul 19 2005 // Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste S.A. de C.V. (ASUR) announced that its Cancun, Cozumel, and Merida airports were temporarily closed as a safety precaution in anticipation of Hurricane Emily.The three airports have since...
Jul 18 2005 // The sole survivor of a 2004 plane crash that killed three men is demanding the aircraft’s insurer cover more than $46,000 in unpaid medical bills, but the insurance company is resisting.AIG Aviation Inc., the...
Jun 6 2005 // ARKANSASPre-License CE Requirements Modified The Arkansas Insurance Department announced that a portion of the Arkansas Insurance Code ad-dressing education hours for applicants for Arkansas insurance agent, broker or...
May 27 2005 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland announced that Top Flight Insurance Company, an auto insurance carrier, has been placed into permanent receivership. The company previously was placed in temporary receivership...
May 13 2005 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland announced that she has filed an application with the Oklahoma County District Court to be appointed receiver for Top Flight Insurance Company, an auto insurance carrier. The...
Apr 28 2005 // The Airbus A380, the largest passenger airplane ever built, successfully took to the air in cloudless skies over the Southern French City of Toulouse yesterday, April 27, 2005. Pilots, engineers and ground crews reported...
Apr 21 2005 // GE Insurance Solutions announced that Hubert Oeckl has been appointed to lead the reinsurer’s Aviation Excess of Loss Treaty team.The appointment comes as part of the group’s efforts to better serve customers...
Mar 23 2005 // A New York man who sought workers’ compensation benefits after his same-sex partner of more than 20 years was killed in an airplane crash has been denied his claim.The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the...
Mar 21 2005 // When the 1970s began, Bill Moloney was afraid of flying.When the 21st century dawned, he had his own aviation brokerage based in an airport and flew his plane as often as he could. Moloney, a self-described...
Mar 18 2005 // Aeroports de Paris (ADP), the authority that owns and operates both the Charles de Gaulle airport and Orly airport in the French capital, has determined that the entire roof structure of Terminal 2E must be torn down and...
Feb 21 2005 // Officials with the city of Los Angeles announced that they reached a $5.9 million settlement with their insurers due to the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, according to the Associated Press. The Federal Aviation...
Feb 17 2005 // Trusted Choice advertising will return to a television set near you next month when a two-week, nationwide ad flight airs, according to Ronald Smith, chairman of the consumer branding program’s Board of Directors.The...
Feb 16 2005 // Both structural and design faults caused a large section of the newly constructed Terminal 2E at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport to collapse last May, killing 4 people and injuring 3.An investigative commission...
Feb 8 2005 // AIG Aviation Inc., a member company of American International Group, Inc. (AIG), is expanding its Specialty Workers’ Compensation offering to cover the risks associated with Fixed Base Operators (FBOs) at private,...
Feb 2 2005 // Five insurance companies are set to recover 2.3 million euros ($3 million) from the French government, while Air France will collect 850,000 euros ($1.1 million) as the result of a court ruling in Marseille stemming from...
Jan 24 2005 // With the introduction last week of the 555-passenger Airbus A380 aircraft, an Aon aviation expert said the world’s aviation industry must now look to the past to accommodate what may be its future.Wayne Wignes,...
Jan 21 2005 // The crash of a corporate jet that killed the son of NBC Sports Chairman Dick Ebersol and two other people has contributed to a 48 percent increase in Colorado-based Montrose Regional Airport’s liability insurance...
Dec 9 2004 // Allianz Marine & Aviation, the Allianz Group brand for specialist transportation, shipping and aviation insurance, has confirmed its strategy of focused specialization within selected markets based on strong technical...