All the headlines from our District Of Columbia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 21 2011 // The Washington, D.C., Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking is advising consumers to be mindful of con artists who lurk in the virtual shadows in online social networking sites.People should make sure they know...
Oct 17 2011 // Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority recently filed a lawsuit against its insurer Lexington Insurance Co. of Boston charging that that the insurer failed to indemnify for the revenue losses in the train...
Oct 4 2011 // Lockton Companies, a Kansas City, Mo.-headquartered insurance broker, hired Jenna Kirkpatrick Howard for its Washington, D.C., brokerage team as a producer. Prior to joining Lockton, she was construction practice leader in...
Oct 4 2011 // An insurance agency founder was recently placed on four years of supervised release and fined $10,000 in Washington, D.C., after earlier pleading guilty to insurance fraud, according to officials.Washington, D.C.,...
Sep 30 2011 // Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has recently filed a lawsuit against its insurer Lexington Insurance Co. of Boston charging that that the insurer failed to indemnify for the revenue losses in the train...
Sep 22 2011 // Ames & Gough, an insurance broker and risk management consultant specializing in serving design professionals, law firms and other professional organizations and consulting firms, has promoted four officers.Ames &...
Aug 29 2011 // The nation’s capital has prepared for emergencies with sleek communication systems, intelligence fusion centers and chemical detention centers at train stations.What showed during the 5.8-magnitude quake that shook...
Aug 24 2011 // The Hanover Insurance Group added a new District of Columbia Metro branch office in Reston, Va.Located in the Reston Executive Center at 12100 Sunset Hills Road, the new branch office will address commercial insurance...
Aug 16 2011 // The number of workers covered by workers’ compensation dropped by 4.4 percent in 2009, the biggest decrease in two decades.Also, according to a report by the nonprofit National Academy of Social Insurance, employer...
Jun 2 2011 // Insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Independent Fiduciary Services Inc. (IFS), a Washington-based institutional investment advisory firm.Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1986,...
May 2 2011 // Hays Cos. of Washington, D.C. has named Shari Pataky senior vice president. She will focus on professional liability insurance and affinity programs for non-profits and associations as well as other business development...
Mar 11 2011 // New Jersey-based broker Couch Braunsdorf Insurance Group has hired Todd Routzahn as a regional sales director for its professional liability division. Routzahn will focus on the Washington D.C. area, and help grow the...
Feb 8 2011 // Bill White has been named as the next director of insurance, securities and banking in Washington D.C. White has 35 years of experience in the insurance industry. He most recently served as a consultant with Prism...
Jan 26 2011 // House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) will give the keynote address to members of the Big “I” during the group’s annual D.C. conference later this year.Boehner is scheduled to speak on Thursday, April 14,...
Dec 28 2010 // Interim D.C. Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson says damage to a northwest Washington school is severe after a three-alarm fire, and plans are being made to move students elsewhere when they return in January.D.C. Fire...
Dec 23 2010 // American International Group Inc. (AIG) has agreed to pay $146.5 million in fines and additional taxes to state insurance regulators for alleged under-reporting of premiums to states more than a decade ago.The company will...
Nov 14 2010 // A federal judge has limited the D.C. Metro’s potential liability in a suit brought by survivors of those killed in the 2009 crash on the red line by ruling that the transit agency can’t be faulted under federal...
Nov 10 2010 // A judge has limited the potential liability of the public transit agency in the District of Columbia in a suit brought by survivors of those killed in the 2009 crash on the Metro red line by ruling that the transit agency...
Sep 29 2010 // The U.S. Treasury is looking for a Director of the Federal Insurance Office. The full-time job pays $119,554 to $179,700 per year depending on experience. Applications will be accepted from all qualified individuals until...
Aug 13 2010 // Insurance broker Lockton Cos. has expanded its Construction Services Group with the addition of four construction insurance and surety experts in its Washington, D.C. operations.Douglas A. Crowe, Jr. and Alexander N. Crowe...