http://www.insurancejournal.com Property casualty insurance news from Insurance Journal en-us Copyright 2009 Wells Publishing Inc. All rights reserved. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:05:20 -0600 http://www.insurancejournal.com/img/insurance-journal-property-casualty-magazine-logo_88x31.gif http://www.insurancejournal.com 88 31 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2009/11/20/105486.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2009/11/20/105486.htm The Missouri Department of Insurance reported that a leader in the U.S. foodservices market has become licensed as a captive insurance company, the result of a new state law making the captive ... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:05:20 -0600 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2009/11/20/105484.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2009/11/20/105484.htm A tour bus driver suffered a ruptured aneurysm before a crash on a southern Minnesota interstate that killed two people and injured 21 others. That's according to a spokesman for Strain Bus Line, ... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:01:39 -0600 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2009/11/20/105482.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2009/11/20/105482.htm A new survey finds Wisconsinites pay more for health insurance than the rest of the country and the cost is rising at a faster rate. The consulting firm Mercer finds employers and their workers in ... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:56:13 -0600 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2009/11/19/105457.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2009/11/19/105457.htm A Nebraska appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit from a former Union Pacific Railroad worker who claims the company should have better protected her from West Nile virus. Vivika Deviney ... Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:09:14 -0600 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2009/11/19/105456.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2009/11/19/105456.htm Des Moines, Iowa-based Principal Financial Group announced that John Aschenbrenner, president of its insurance and financial services division, will retire at the end of 2009 after more than 37 ... Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:06:58 -0600 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2009/11/18/105422.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2009/11/18/105422.htm Clarksville, Mo., is moving ahead with what Mayor Jo Anne Smiley calls the “monumental task” of never again having to worry about the Mississippi River ruining businesses and ... Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:32:22 -0600 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2009/11/18/105420.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2009/11/18/105420.htm The Main Street America Group has introduced its new Main Street Connection for Personal Lines quoting and policy issuance system in Michigan.  The super regional’s independent ... Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:27:48 -0600 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2009/11/17/105395.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2009/11/17/105395.htm Residents living downstream from Fargo, N.D., and neighboring Moorhead, Minn., along the Red River fear their towns would be sacrificed in a diversion plan to save the two larger cities from ... Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:37:01 -0600 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2009/11/17/105394.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2009/11/17/105394.htm A Bismarck state senator says North Dakota's insurance premium tax on nonprofit health insurance companies should be abolished.   Democrat Tracy Potter is drafting the proposal for the ... Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:35:14 -0600 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2009/11/16/105359.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2009/11/16/105359.htm The South Dakota Agriculture Department says wet conditions have delayed what looks like a near-record harvest for many South Dakota farmers and raised concerns about a Dec. 10 harvest deadline ... Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:35:24 -0600 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2009/11/16/105347.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2009/11/16/105347.htm The University of Michigan is paying $1 million to settle a lawsuit with a former dental student who claimed she was illegally kicked out of school, according to a document obtained by The ... Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:06:30 -0600 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2009/11/13/105325.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2009/11/13/105325.htm Programs and environmental insurance veteran David Blum announced the opening of D.S. Blum Inc., a wholesale insurance brokerage headquartered in suburban Chicago. The brokerage will focus on ... Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:31:12 -0600 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2009/11/13/105322.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2009/11/13/105322.htm High-tech mapping technology used to help Fargo-Moorhead, N.D., residents fight a record-setting flood last spring will be made available to the entire Red River Valley. The high-resolution ... Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:55:08 -0600 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2009/11/12/105286.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2009/11/12/105286.htm Wisconsin insurance officials plan to hand $12 million in property insurance credits back to local governments next year. Wisconsin municipalities can pay into a state account in exchange for ... Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:12:10 -0600 http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2009/11/12/105285.htm http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2009/11/12/105285.htm International Excess, headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, has launched a new division dedicated to crop, farm and livestock insurance. Chuck Gabel, divisional vice president of International Excess ... Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:53:12 -0600