November 16, 2016
San Diego, CA, November 16, 2016- Arrowhead General Insurance Agency, Inc. (Arrowhead), one of the largest program administrators in the country, announced this week that its Architects & Engineers (A&E) Professional Liability Insurance Program is now available on an open-market …
August 18, 2016
Rocklin, CA, August 18, 2016- Builders & Tradesmen’s Insurance Services, Inc. (BTIS) is pleased to announce the launch of a new instant online quote Commercial Auto program, available in 30 states. “We’ve been committed to the small artisan contractor for …
July 7, 2016
National insurance distribution firm Confie has acquired two insurance brokerages in New York State – Lloyd D. Sprague & Son Inc. and J.N. Mason Agency Inc. Confie, a portfolio company of ABRY Partner, has completed 11 acquisitions thus far in …
February 18, 2016
Location, Inc., a provider of location-based data and tools used by corporations for risk analysis, has introduced a new risk index to help insurers address structure fire losses due to human negligence. Insurers often associate structure fires with catastrophic events, …
December 21, 2015
Global consulting and actuarial firm Milliman, Inc. has announced the availability of two new reports detailing embedded value (EV) results for 32 major insurance companies in Europe and Japan and 14 major insurance companies operating in Asia. The reports examine …
December 16, 2015
The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation’s (IICF) 9th annual Northeast Benefit Dinner, held on Dec. 9 at New York City’s Waldorf Astoria Hotel, raised more than $1.26 million for regional charities. More than 900 insurance professionals attended the annual event, which …
October 29, 2015
With fresh news out on the global economic cost of climate change, an enticing climate fiction contest and a sweet victory for this column, it would take until Christmas to individually cover it all in a bimonthly space. So I’ll …
October 23, 2015
In a decision handed down in mid-October, the Louisiana Supreme Court reversed an appeals court decision assigning 100 percent liability to a grocery store in a customer slip and fall case. Louisiana’s Third Circuit Appeals Court in Thompson v. Winn-Dixie …
October 13, 2015
The Florida Department of Financial Services’ Division of Insurance Fraud (DIF) announced the arrest of Darley Caridad Carballeira, 50, for her involvement in a scam in which she allegedly overbilled Key International Inc. more than $167,000 during the sale of …
September 25, 2015
USI Insurance Services has acquired the employee benefits business of Benefit Controls of the Carolinas, Inc. This is the first acquisition in North Carolina for USI. An employee benefits consulting firm, Benefit Controls of the Carolinas, Inc. designs and manages …