Cunningham Lindsey U.S. Inc. (CLUS), headquartered in Dallas, Texas, announced that David J. Repinski has been named president and chief executive officer. Repinski has held several key operations and sales positions at CLUS over the past 11 years. He will …
Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Julianne Bowler has issued clarifications and minor revisions to her November decision creating a new auto insurance residual market, assigned risk plan to be known as the Massachusetts Automobile Insurance Plan (MAIP). The new plan went into …
South Carolina’s teenage drivers were involved in fewer car crashes during the past four years according to Russ Rader, a spokesman for the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The institute compares the effect of the nation’s driving laws on youth …
With only one upheld complaint, Amica Mutual Insurance Co. of Rhode Island, a perennial top 10 finisher, ranked the best among 49 auto insurers or groups ranked by the New York State Insurance Department in its most recent complaint report. …
Gov. John Baldacci’s nationally touted health insurance program went into effect Saturday with 1,800 Mainers signed up as the first card-carrying members of DirigoChoice. But the number is far below the 31,000 people the administration hopes to enroll by year’s …
A Long Island insurance think-tank has licensed Volkswagen of America Inc. to offer the industry’s first no- charge insurance policy to customers who purchase or lease selected models during a three-month test in Illinois and Wisconsin. The VW In the …
The Starr Foundation, a charitable trust managed by AIG, announced that it will donate $2.5 million to disaster recovery and humanitarian efforts in the wake of the December 26 earthquake and tsunamis in Southeast Asia. Individual donations have been earmarked …
Germany’s Allianz joined a growing list of insurance companies that are contributing to relief efforts in Southeast Asia. The company announced that it would donate 1 million euros ($1.36 million) and would reveal further details of its plans in the …
When is outlawing discrimination discriminatory? The European Commission (EC), the European Union’s regulatory authority, has been wrestling with that question for two years, and has finally come down on the side of common sense. The EC has just announced that …
Roanoke, Ind.-based sports and entertainment insurance broker American Specialty Cos. has been acquired by Brown & Brown Inc. American Specialty has annualized revenues of about $13 million and will continue to operate from its Roanoke corporate headquarters.
