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Nationwide Launches New Online Quoting System for Small Business Agents

Dec 11 2015 // Nationwide is launching FastPath, a quicker commercial quoting system for insurance agents serving small-business clients.Features of FastPath include: Faster quoting with an average of 80 percent fewer screens Streamlined...

New York-Based Freedom Specialty Rebranded as Nationwide

Oct 12 2015 // Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company announced that the New York-based Freedom Specialty Insurance Company is taking on the Nationwide name, effective Oct. 8.Freedom Specialty’s rebranding aims to leverage...

Nationwide Insurance to Raise Its Minimum Hourly Wage to $15

Sep 9 2015 // Columbus, Ohio-based Nationwide Mutual Insurance said it will raise its minimum pay rate to $15 per hour over the next nine months. The change affects approximately 900 current employees across 25 locations for jobs in...

66% of Small Businesses Lack Business Interruption Coverage: Survey

Sep 2 2015 // Nearly 75 percent of small businesses say they don’t have a disaster recovery plan in place. For companies with fewer than 50 employees, just one in five – or 18 percent – have one, according to a new...

Nationwide Rebrands Crestbrook, Expands Affluent Client Offerings to 4 States

Aug 26 2015 // Nationwide Private Client insurance products and services for affluent clients are now available in four new states: Alaska, Idaho, Minnesota, and Tennessee, bringing the total number of states served to 16.Nationwide...

Penn. Lawyer Indicted for Insider Trading Ahead of Nationwide-Harleysville Deal

Jul 20 2015 // A former partner at a Philadelphia law firm has been charged with insider trading linked to a client’s merger with another insurance firm.Federal prosecutors have charged Herbert Sudfeld with making $75,000 by...

Nationwide to Pay West Virginia $5.75M in Farm Bureau Discount Suit

Jul 20 2015 // West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has reached a $5.75 million settlement with Nationwide Insurance regarding a discount on certain insurance products for the state’s Farm Bureau members.Former Attorney...

Nationwide to Pay West Virginia $5.75M in Farm Bureau Discount Suit

Jul 5 2015 // Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has reached a $5.75 million settlement with Nationwide Insurance regarding a discount on certain insurance products for West Virginia Farm Bureau members.Morrisey announced the settlement...

Massive Copper Theft in NYC Latest Example of Troubling Trend Nationwide

Jun 3 2015 // Longtime New York City subway cops have seen copper thefts before, but last week’s heist on a stretch of open-air tracks was particularly brazen: 500 feet of inch-thick cable stripped from the rails in the middle of...

Top 10, Bottom 10 Housing Markets in U.S.: Nationwide

Mar 31 2015 // The U.S. housing market is at its healthiest level since 2001, according to a new index from economists at insurer Nationwide who evaluated the housing market nationally and for 373 metropolitan areas.Housing markets in...

Nationwide to Close Virginia Call Center; 340 Jobs to Leave Area

Feb 23 2015 // Nationwide Insurance says it will close its Lynchburg, Virginia, call center by the middle of 2016.The News & Advance reports that the move means 340 jobs will leave the area. Nationwide spokesman Eric Hardgrove says...

Child Safety Ad Gone Wrong?

Feb 9 2015 // Nationwide Insurance ran into some social media backlash to its Super Bowl commercial that the company says was intended to spark a “fierce conversation” about preventing childhood deaths.The insurer issued a...

Nationwide to Move 175 Jobs from Iowa to Ohio

Feb 2 2015 // Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. has plans to move 175 jobs out of Des Moines, Iowa, to its Ohio headquarters. Company spokesman Eric Hardgrove tells the Des Moines Register the company’s home mortgage operations will...

Nationwide on the Darker Side in Super Bowl Ad

Feb 2 2015 // Nationwide Insurance ran into some social media backlash to its Super Bowl commercial that the company says was intended to spark a “fierce conversation” about preventing childhood deaths.Late last night, the...

BTIS Expands Workers’ Compensation Program Nationwide

Jan 9 2015 // Builders & Tradesmen’s Insurance Services, Inc. (BTIS) has expanded its Victory Workers’ Comp program into all U.S. states except for Alaska, North Dakota, Ohio, Washington, and Wyoming. The program offers...

Former Washington Adjuster Pleads Guilty to $135,000 Theft

Dec 15 2014 // Former Nationwide Insurance claims associate Fariborz Romeo Rahrovi, 40, in November pled guilty in King County Superior Court in Washington to two counts of theft, criminal conspiracy and money laundering related to the...

Nationwide, Hartford Steam Boiler Offer Cyber Cover for Small Business Owners

Nov 24 2014 // As more than half of all U.S. small businesses have experienced a data breach, Nationwide has joined forces with Hartford Steam Boiler (HSB) to offer cyber insurance coverage for small business owners. The services and...

Former Washington Adjuster Pleads Guilty To $135,000 Theft

Nov 21 2014 // Former Nationwide Insurance claims associate Fariborz Romeo Rahrovi, 40, on Friday pled guilty in King County Superior Court in Washington to two counts of theft, criminal conspiracy and money laundering related to the...

U.S. Safety Regulator Wants Nationwide Recall of Air Bags

Nov 19 2014 // The U.S. auto safety regulator has told Japanese supplier Takata Corp. and five automakers to expand nationwide a regional recall of potentially lethal air bags, increasing pressure on the industry to move faster in a...

Best Agency to Work For – Overall

Oct 6 2014 // Teamwork. Respect. Opportunity. Commitment. Those are a few of the words used to describe the atmosphere in the nation’s overall Best Agency to Work For – McGriff-Williams Insurance based in Gainesville, Fla.One...