All the headlines from our Allied Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 9 2018 // Nationwide has made an investment in Betterview, a machine learning insurtech startup that focuses on analyzing data from drones, satellite and other aerial imagery.Betterview said it will use the undisclosed amount of...
Apr 24 2018 // The Travelers Companies boosted its net income for the quarter ended March 31, 2018, by 10 percent to $669 million compared to $617 million in the prior year quarter despite unusually high catastrophe losses in...
Apr 16 2018 // Independent agents take note – Nationwide may be on your side.Nationwide on Monday announced its intention to shift to an independent agency distribution model over the next two years. The Columbus, Ohio-based carrier,...
Apr 12 2018 // Cal Inspection Bureau of Tarzana, California, and Legacy P&C of Camden, South Carolina, have formed a new firm offering premium audit services to insurers for commercial accounts nationwide. The joint firm has been...
Apr 6 2018 // Mike Miller, the long-time president and chief operating officer of excess and surplus lines giant Scottsdale Insurance Co., is launching a new specialty property/casualty insurance company named Ategrity Specialty...
Apr 2 2018 // Nearly one in eight U.S. motorists is driving around uninsured and putting insured drivers at greater risk in the event of an auto accident, according to a study.The study, directed by the Insurance Research Council (IRC)...
Mar 5 2018 // A former Mississippi insurance agent will serve 10 years in prison for embezzling $117,863.74 from a customer and converting the money for his own use, Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood announced in January.Charles...
Mar 5 2018 // All 15 surplus lines service offices across the United States experienced increases in excess and surplus (E&S) lines insurance premium in 2017, the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX) reports. U.S. surplus...
Feb 26 2018 // A former Mississippi insurance agent will serve 10 years in prison for embezzling $117,863.74 from a customer and converting the money for his own use, Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood announced last month.Charles...
Feb 21 2018 // State laws banning hand-held cellphone calls while driving can be effective in reducing teens’ hand-held conversations while driving, but texting bans are not effective in reducing texting while driving, according to...
Feb 19 2018 // All 15 surplus lines service offices across the United States experienced increases in excess and surplus lines insurance premium in 2017, the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas reported. U.S. surplus line premium...
Feb 19 2018 // All 15 surplus lines service offices across the United States experienced increases in excess and surplus (E&S) lines insurance premium in 2017, the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLTX) reports. U.S. surplus...
Feb 8 2018 // Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. and clean energy developer Sol Systems are investing $100 million into a fund they are forming to acquire U.S. solar projects.The Helios Infrastructure Fund plans to buy more than 330...
Jan 25 2018 // A digital startup private flood insurance provider, Neptune Flood, has secured $2 million in seed round funding and has plans to “aggressively expand” nationwide by offering its platform to carriers, agencies...
Jan 22 2018 // Salt Lake City, Utah-based Leavitt Group Insurance Advisors has named Mike Scott a senior risk advisor and director of program business.Scott will focus on middle markets, large accounts, and hard-to-place specialty risks....
Jan 19 2018 // Columbus, Ohio-based insurer, Nationwide, announced that Chief Information Officer Michael Keller will retire from his role later this year. Keller has been the CIO for Nationwide since 2001.The company anticipates it will...
Jan 10 2018 // Paul VanDenBosch has been named president of Nationwide Private Client. Nationwide Private Client business operations are based in Scottsdale, Arizona. VanDenBosch has more than 25 years of experience in the insurance...
Dec 27 2017 // The Institutes’ work with insurers in the blockchain space has led to a debut product – a tool designed to establish proof of auto insurance. Nationwide is the first carrier to bring it to production and is already...
Oct 25 2017 // Brit Global Specialty has appointed Courtney Mocio as vice president, Cyber & Technology. In this role, Mocio will be responsible for helping to grow Brit’s cyber and technology portfolio in the U.S. Mocio brings...
Sep 18 2017 // A number of Philadelphia-area law firms are setting up practices to serve the cannabis industry despite concerns of an uncertain future.Many of the city’s biggest law firms — including Duane Morris, Fox...