Burns & Wilcox appointed Frances Nicole Taylor as an assistant broker for the company’s Dallas/Fort Worth office. Announced by Vice President/Branch Manager Don Carson, the addition represents Burns & Wilcox’s continuing growth strategy to offer global insurance resources through local, …
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., an international insurance brokerage and risk management services firm headquartered in Itasca, Ill., recently declared a regular quarterly cash dividend and announced the continuation of its stock repurchase plan. Gallagher’s Board declared a regular quarterly …
Safety advocates are urging lawmakers to include new automobile safety requirements in a long overdue highway bill. Among the issues they want addressed are ways to reduce deaths from accidents when vehicles roll over and when people are thrown from …
Some of Harvard Medical School’s top teaching hospitals may add a lesson for their doctors: how to say sorry. A national specialist on patient safety, Dr. Lucian Leape, has led a group of physicians, patients, and hospital executives in drafting …
Burns & Wilcox appointed Nancy Ryan as a commercial underwriter for the company’s San Diego office. Ryan will be responsible for production and marketing to the company’s network of agents. Ryan joins Burns & Wilcox with previous experience as an …
A recently-launched new Code of Practice for the Australian insurance industry will mean general insurers will meet higher, measurable performance standards for dealing with customers, including settling claims in specific time periods and providing clearer information about policies. Developed by …
Crane Co., a Stamford, Conn. manufacturer of engineered industrial products, has agreed to settle its insurance coverage claims for asbestos and other liabilities against underwriters at Lloyd’s of London reinsured by Equitas Limited for a total payment of $33 million. …
Self-employed Floridians in need of health insurance can obtain it through an open-enrollment period during the month of August. The open enrollment period requires insurance companies and Health Maintenance Organizations to offer applications for coverage to the self-employed on a …
Gov. Joe Manchin III has announced a new program that offers health insurance coverage to West Virginians who have pre-existing, severe or chronic medical conditions as well as for those who have lost their insurance through the closing of their …
Volunteer firefighters in Vermont say they were inappropriately left out of a new law that gave their full-time, professional colleagues benefits that they believe they also deserve. Passed on the final day of the session, the firefighter protection act rewrites …
