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Coastal communities only halfway ready for a major storm

Jul 24 2006 // Survey finds Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia most preparedAverage insured homeowners throughout Gulf and Atlantic coastal communities have taken just half the steps which would best position them to recover...

Unitrin Specialty Offering Agents a Tool to Help Plan for Disaster

Jul 23 2006 // Dallas-based Unitrin Specialty announced it is now providing its agents with a new tool that helps small businesses plan for and recover from disaster.Open for Business, an Internet-based disaster recovery and risk...

Unitrin Specialty Helps Agents Plan for Disaster

Jul 21 2006 // Dallas, Texas – At least one in four small businesses that close because of a major disaster never reopen. That’s why Unitrin Specialty is providing its agents with a new tool that helps small businesses plan...

Californians Eligible, But Don’t Often Sign Up for Health Insurance

Jul 18 2006 // Approximately 43 percent of the reported 6.7 million California residents that qualify for government-sponsored health insurance aren’t signed up, according to statewide studies. Upon discovering this information,...

Study: Pa. High Schoolers Risking Driving Under Influence

Jul 14 2006 // Pennsylvania high school seniors are increasingly drinking to excess and getting behind the wheel after drinking alcohol or taking drugs, according to a statewide survey. It also found that about one in five has gone to...

International Insurance Society Hosts 42nd Annual Seminar

Jul 13 2006 // The International Insurance Society will host its 42nd Annual Seminar in Chicago at the Westin Chicago–River North on July 15-19.The theme of this year’s program is “Insurance: Now and the Future-Profile...

Survey Shows Texans 50% Ready for Major Hurricane

Jul 7 2006 // Insured homeowners in Eastern and Southern Coastal Texas have, on average, taken roughly 50 percent of the steps to prepare their homes and property to recover from a major hurricane, according to a new Hurricane Readiness...

Tudor Enhances Non-Profit Policy

Jul 5 2006 // Tudor Insurance Company has introduced an enhanced version of its non-profit organization liability policy. A separate limit of liability will now be available for employment practices liability claims (generally available...

California State Fund Raised $50,000 for Community Programs in Past Decade

Jun 22 2006 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund’s Santa Rosa District Office employees have raised nearly $50,000 during the past decade for various charities including $3,000 at the recent 25th annual...

CPCU Institutes Select Miller as New President

Jun 20 2006 // The board of trustees of the American Institute for CPCU and the Insurance Institute of America has selected Peter L. Miller as the new president and chief executive officer of the Malvern, Pa. institutes, replacing Terrie...

Gallagher & Co. Brings Robert Keith & Associates Aboard

Jun 5 2006 // Itasca, Ill.-based Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced the acquisition of Robert Keith & Associates, Inc. of Naperville, Ill. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Established in 1984, Robert Keith &...

Agency spreading good works in Mass., Conn.

Jun 5 2006 // GoodWorks Insurance, LLC, a Massachusetts insurance agency that promises to donate 50 percent of its profits to local charities, has expanded into Connecticut with a branch office in Granby.The Granby agency will sell...

Mich. Blues Extend Deadline for Awards Honoring Top Senior Volunteers

May 31 2006 // The nomination deadline for an annual Community Recognition Award sponsored by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and Blue Care Network honoring outstanding senior citizen advocates has been extended to Friday, June 30....

Lexington Enhances LexElite Homeowners Coverage

May 31 2006 // Lexington Insurance Company, a member company of American International Group, Inc. (AIG), has expanded its LexElite homeowners insurance policy to now include coverage for mechanical breakdowns, identity theft and...

Federal Disaster Aid Available for Flood Victims in Mass., N.H. and Maine

May 26 2006 // The head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced that federal disaster aid has been made available in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine to help people...

Philanthropic Agency GoodWorks of Mass. Opens in Conn.

May 23 2006 // GoodWorks Insurance, LLC, a Massachusetts insurance agency that promises to donate 50 percent of its profits to local charities, has expanded into Connecticut with a branch office in Granby. The Granby agency, located at...

Hurricanes Wrecked Many Retirement Dreams

May 22 2006 // Jim and Evelyn Burke’s Pensacola Bay, Fla. home provided a dream retirement for 13 years, evenings watching purple and pink sunsets on their private dock and mornings glimpsing dolphins frolicking outside their...

Oct. 1 Deadline for Agents to Register in Fla. Licensing System

May 16 2006 // Florida insurance agents have until Oct. 1 to complete their registration in the Department of Financial Services new Agency Licensing System. Hazel Muhammad, director of the Bureau of Licensing, told participants at the...

W.Va. Nonprofit’s Reimbursements 11 Times Higher Than Premiums

May 13 2006 // A Fairmont, W.Va. nonprofit group paid $47,334 in premiums to a state-run insurance agency over two years and was reimbursed more than 11 times that amount for three claims, state documents show.The bulk of the...

Aon Subsidiary Acquires JLT Services

May 12 2006 // Aon’s Affinity Business Expanded Through Acquisition of JLT Services Corporation DivisionAffinity Insurance Services Inc., a subsidiary of Aon Corp., has acquired a division of JLT Services Corporation (JLT)...