All the headlines from our Hawaii Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 10 2011 // A.M. Best Co. has downgraded the financial strength rating to ‘C++’ (Marginal) from ‘B-‘ (Fair) and issuer credit rating to “b” from “bb-” of New York’s Park Insurance...
Jun 1 2011 // Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie has signed legislation appropriating $42 million from the state’s Hurricane Reserve Trust Fund to the General Fund to help balance the state budget for fiscal year 2011, which ends June...
Apr 15 2011 // The Honolulu, Hawaii, medical examiner’s office said that three of the victims in an underground fireworks blast last week suffered carbon monoxide inhalation before dying.A spokeswoman for the medical...
Apr 13 2011 // Hawaii’s workplace safety regulator has launched an investigation into the company responsible for the fireworks that exploded in a storage facility last week to determine if it has any record of violating safety...
Apr 12 2011 // A Hawaii law protecting journalists from having to reveal anonymous sources and private notes is moving toward being renewed before it expires.The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 5-0 on to extend the protection for two...
Apr 11 2011 // The death toll from an explosion at a fireworks storage site in Hawaii rose to five after a bomb squad recovered the bodies of two missing men, officials said.The blast near the Waikele Business Center at a former military...
Apr 4 2011 // GeoVera Insurance Co. has launched a residential windstorm-hurricane insurance product in Hawaii. The policy will insure residential properties against the single peril of windstorm during a hurricane. GeoVera is...
Apr 4 2011 // Energy Market Detail: Victor O.Schinnerer’s energy and utilities program, Energy P&C offers coverage to companies involved in public utilities, oil and gas, pipeline operations, as well as HVAC contractors, and...
Mar 29 2011 // Hawaii is running out of time to find an estimated $232 million needed to balance the budget over the next three months, leading Gov. Neil Abercrombie’s administration to consider emptying the state’s hurricane...
Mar 21 2011 // Behavioral Health Care Market Detail: Negley Associates is underwriting manager for A+XV Rated carrier. Coverages include workers’ comp, professional and general liability, directors and officers (including EPLI),...
Mar 16 2011 // As states in the West clean up tsunami damage, loss estimates are climbing, according to local officials.In Hawaii, the estimate — tallied by Gov. Neil Abercrombie’s office to be in the millions — combines damage...
Mar 15 2011 // GeoVera Insurance Co. has launched a residential windstorm-hurricane insurance product in Hawaii. The policy will insure residential properties against the single peril of windstorm during a hurricane. GeoVera is...
Mar 11 2011 // The Pacific Warning Tsunami Center said waves that reached Hawaii — up to 7 feet high on Maui — as a result of the 8.9 magnitude earthquake that rocked Japan “are not going to be a major damaging...
Mar 3 2011 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘A’ (Excellent) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) of “a” of First of Hawaii Group and its members. The outlook for all of the ratings...
Jan 10 2011 // Golden Eagle Insurance, a Liberty Mutual Agency Corp. regional company, appointed Spencer J. Donkin president and CEO.Donkin joins Golden Eagle Insurance from Liberty Mutual Agency Corp.’s Regional Companies Group,...
Dec 22 2010 // The Hawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs Insurance Division has posted its annual motor vehicle insurance premium comparison. Based on a driver with one speeding conviction and no accidents with a 2009 Honda...
Dec 16 2010 // A new study ranks Hawaii’s public health emergency preparedness in the bottom half of states, citing in part the inability to adequately staff public labs in the event of an infectious outbreak among the...
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Nov 23 2010 // Sierra Specialty of Clovis, Calif., has added Jean Silberstein as a broker to expand the company’s presence in Hawaii. Silberstein moved to Hawaii in 1978 and worked in the insurance wholesale business before...
Nov 14 2010 // Republicans were not only victorious in the U.S. House but also in state houses across the country.The new GOP power will give the party its largest number of seats in state legislatures since the Great Depression,...