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Oct 15 2018 // Two recent decisions from the Florida Supreme Court that reversed rulings by the same District Court of Appeal will have a serious impact on the insurance industry.The consequential rulings came on Sept. 20, 2018 in the...
Oct 8 2018 // MLMIC Insurance Company, formerly known as Medical Liability Mutual Insurance Company, has completed its conversion from a property and casualty mutual insurance company to a property and casualty stock insurance company...
Oct 2 2018 // Two recent decisions from the Florida Supreme Court that reversed rulings by the same District Court of Appeal will have a serious impact on the insurance industry.The consequential rulings came on Sept. 20, 2018 in the...
Oct 1 2018 // JLT Re (North America) Inc., part of the global provider of reinsurance broking and consultancy, has appointed Alain Bizet as senior vice president in Miami. Alain will join the property treaty team in Miami and focus on...
Sep 18 2018 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) has opened a new office in Munich, Germany, the latest advance in BHSI’s expansion of its global footprint. The insurer has named two key underwriters for the office. The...
Sep 10 2018 // A series of human errors led to a BNSF Railway train striking and killing two railroad workers in South Dakota last year, federal investigators said.The National Transportation Safety Board released its report on Sept. 6...
Aug 13 2018 // BNSF Railway has acknowledged that flooding played a role in a derailment that loosed thousands of gallons of oil into northwest Iowa floodwaters.Railroad spokesman Andy Williams wouldn’t say whether the train...
Aug 6 2018 // BNSF Railway has agreed to pay the U.S. government $200,000 and spend up to $750,000 on road repairs to settle claims that the company failed to pay for damages caused by a 2011 train derailment in northwestern Montana,...
Aug 6 2018 // This year’s looking brighter for Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s insurance businesses after 2017’s hurricanes led to the first annual underwriting loss in more than a decade.Auto insurer Geico and the...
Aug 6 2018 // GEICO’s Board of Directors has promoted Rick Hoagland to senior vice president.Hoagland first joined GEICO in 1994 as a telephone claims representative in Fredericksburg, Md. He advanced through several positions and...
Jul 26 2018 // Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Insurance Companies is now offering professional liability insurance for accountants in Texas.The new accountants’ professional liability product is designed to meet the needs of smaller...
Jul 23 2018 // The GEICO Board of Directors has promoted Jeremy Connor to vice president of the company’s regional office in Buffalo, N.Y., and its claims office in Marlton, N.J.Connor had served as assistant vice president of...
Jul 9 2018 // GEICO’s Board of Directors has promoted Rick Hoagland to senior vice president. Hoagland first joined GEICO in 1994 as a telephone claims representative in Fredericksburg, Md. He advanced through several positions...
Jul 9 2018 // The GEICO Board of Directors has promoted Pionne Corbin to senior vice president. Corbin will manage the regional office in Lakeland, Fla., where she will be based, and oversee the company’s Southeast and Midwest...
Jun 26 2018 // BNSF Railway Co. on Monday said it could resume service Tuesday on a stretch of northwestern Iowa track damaged when a train left the track and crude oil spilled from derailed cars.The crude oil train derailed near Doon,...
Jun 25 2018 // An estimated 230,000 gallons (870,619 liters) of crude oil spilled into floodwaters in the northwestern corner of Iowa following a train derailment, a railroad official said Saturday.BNSF spokesman Andy Williams said 14 of...
Jun 18 2018 // Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC (MMA), the middle market agency subsidiary of Marsh, has appointed Gary Ivey as Southeast regional CEO.In this role, Ivey will oversee MMA offices in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky...
Jun 4 2018 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) has appointed Mark Lingafelter as president, BHSI, Australasia. He assumes responsibility for the BHSI Australasia region from Chris Colahan, who is moving into the role of...
May 6 2018 // Warren Buffett lost money but had a pretty good quarter.Berkshire Hathaway Inc. on Saturday reported an unusual quarterly net loss, the result of an accounting change that Buffett had warned would produce...
May 3 2018 // A southwest Missouri man who was injured twice at the BNSF Railway Co. rail yard in Springfield has been awarded more than $5 million in damages.A Greene County jury found for former conductor James Mitchell last week...