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AAIS Files New Standardized Personal Auto Program Nationwide

Sep 22 2016 // American Association of Insurance Services (AAIS), a national not-for-profit insurance advisory organization governed by its member companies, announced the filing and approval of a new standardized Personal Auto Program...

Fix to Pipeline Leak Responsible for Southeast Gas Shortage Expected Today

Sep 21 2016 // A main gas line is expected to restart Wednesday with a temporary bypass after a leak and spill in Alabama led to surging fuel prices and some gas shortages across the South, a company official said Tuesday.The roughly...

XL Catlin Updates Coverage for Design Professionals to Address Emerging Risks

Sep 16 2016 // XL Catlin has enhanced its design professional insurance policy form to address architects’, engineers’ and other design businesses’ changing professional liability insurance needs.According to Doug...

New York to Provide $5M in Grants to Prevent Workplace Injuries

Sep 14 2016 // New York state is providing $5 million in grants to improve safety conditions in low-wage industries. Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the program Saturday after participating in a Labor Day parade in New York City. The...

Louisiana Receives $19.5M Federal Disaster Recovery Grant

Aug 11 2016 // State health officials say Louisiana has received a $19.5 million federal grant to help communities that are still recovering from devastating floods this past spring. The Disaster Case Management grant is from the Federal...

Massachusetts, New Hampshire Nonprofit Insurer Sues Over Federal Assessment

Aug 3 2016 // A nonprofit health insurer with 25,000 customers in Massachusetts and New Hampshire has filed a federal lawsuit claiming it is being illegally punished for offering lower-cost products.Under the Affordable Care Act’s...

2 State AGs Refuse House Republicans’ Subpoenas Over Climate Change

Jul 28 2016 // The New York and Massachusetts attorneys general are refusing to comply with congressional subpoenas seeking records about their investigations into whether Exxon Mobil misled investors about man-made climate change.In an...

Graduate of Disabled Veterans Insurance Careers Hired to Florida Insurance Agency

Jul 27 2016 // Disabled Veterans Insurance Careers (DVIC), the non-profit organization that helps train, educate and create employment opportunities within the insurance industry for disabled veterans, celebrated the graduation of Joanne...

G2 Insurance Services Names Fox-Foster Claims Manager in California

Jul 19 2016 // G2 Insurance Services has named Martin Fox-Foster claims manager.Fox-Foster will be located in the company’s San Francisco office He will serve as a resource to G2 Insurance’s commercial clients, advocating on...

SBA Sets August Deadline for Mississippi Disaster Loans From Spring Floods

Jul 18 2016 // People whose south Mississippi homes or businesses flooded in late April or early May have until Aug. 8 to apply for Small Business Administration disaster loans.The low-interest loans are available in Harrison, Hancock,...

Insurance Society of Philadelphia to Honor Starr’s Greenberg with Leadership Award

Jul 11 2016 // The Insurance Society of Philadelphia (ISOP) announced that Maurice R. “Hank” Greenberg, chairman and CEO of C.V. Starr & Co. Inc., is the recipient of its 2016 Distinguished Leadership Award.The...

Illinois Stepping in to Help Struggling Insurance Co-Op

Jul 8 2016 // The state of Illinois has tried an unusual maneuver to save a health insurer with 49,000 Illinois policyholders from possible financial failure by blocking it from paying a $31.8 million bill to the federal...

Trucking Firm Won’t Face Criminal Charges in Crash that Killed 5 Georgia Students

Jul 8 2016 // A Georgia prosecutor says he’s dropped the criminal case against a trucking company charged in a deadly interstate crash last year that killed five nursing students.Tom Durden is district attorney for southeast...

Collapse of Utah Insurance Co-Op Leaves Millions in Claims Unpaid

Jul 5 2016 // The collapse of Utah’s nonprofit insurance cooperative is leaving Utah hospitals with millions in unpaid claims.Arches Mutual Insurance Co. owes $33 million that the Utah Department of Insurance says will likely...

Nenezian to Retire from Florida-Based NSI Insurance, Seikaly Becomes Chairman

May 20 2016 // Oscar Seikaly has purchased the remaining stake in Florida-Based NSI Insurance Group from long-time partner and company founder George Nenezian, who concurrently announced his retirement. A privately held insurance agency,...

Obama Administration Finalizes Rules on Company Wellness Programs

May 17 2016 // A federal agency on Monday released final rules on how employers can offer workers financial incentives of up to 30 percent of the cost of their cheapest health insurance plans to participate in wellness programs without...

Willis Programs Launches DroneGuard for Unmanned Aircraft Systems

May 2 2016 // Willis Programs, a unit of Willis Towers Watson, and the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI), an industry association for unmanned systems, have partnered to develop DroneGuard, an insurance...

Key Florida Players to Highlight Importance of Catastrophe Reinsurance

Apr 25 2016 // Although the role of catastrophe reinsurance in a wind exposed region is intuitively obvious to an insurance professional and most insurer rating agencies, the need for transparency, education and open dialogue on this...

Ruschlikon Expands Global Reach in 2015; Use of ACORD Standards Rises 20%

Apr 21 2016 // Ruschlikon, the global community of insurers, brokers and reinsurers with a mission to optimize industry administrative costs and enhance client services, announced achieved several important milestones in 2015 — a...

PURE Insurance Launches Non-Profit D&O Coverage

Apr 14 2016 // Privilege Underwriters Reciprocal Exchange (PURE), the policyholder-owned property and casualty insurer designed for high net worth individuals and families, has made several enhancements to its personal excess liability...