April 17, 2006
American International Group, Inc. announced that John Q. Doyle, president of American Home Assurance Company, has also been named AIG senior vice president for domestic general insurance and president and chief executive officer of National Union Fire Insurance Company of …
April 17, 2006
ACE European Group is launching an enhanced range of covers as part of its Elite Investment Management Insurance product. This is in response to increased exposure to litigation and a growing demand for the investment and fund management sector to …
April 17, 2006
The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. has named Daniel J. Leonelli, regional vice president for commercial lines for the company’s Connecticut and Rhode Island territory. Leonelli will work out of the The Hanover’s Glastonbury, Connecticut office, reporting directly to Michael Christiansen, …
April 17, 2006
The China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) said it will begin thorough investigations into the country’s insurance companies this month to promote the healthy growth of the fledgling insurance market. The three-year project is aimed at comprehensively examining the practices in …
April 17, 2006
A Philadelphia insurance agent and a Chicago bakery owner, both newly elected to Italy’s parliament, say Italians living abroad should gain new recognition now that they for the first time have their own representatives. “I hope Italians get to know …
April 17, 2006
Max Kothari, owner of a kitchen remodeling shop in Hartford, said it bothers him that some of his 12 employees have to choose between shelling out hundreds of dollars a month in insurance premiums or skipping the coverage altogether. “Some …
April 17, 2006
A bill raising the legal hurdle for medical malpractice plaintiffs was clinically dead after a House committee vote last Wednesday, but was quickly revived with some arm-twisting by the House majority leader. After a hearing pitting representatives of the medical …
April 16, 2006
A Maine judge Friday gave directors of the Dirigo Health Agency less than a month to determine the latest health care cost savings arising from the operation of its state-run insurance program. The agency had missed its statutory deadline of …
April 16, 2006
The board of directors at Beacon Mutual Insurance Co. suspended two executives with pay Friday following an audit report alleging that Beacon, the state’s dominant worker’s compensation insurance provider, improperly gave price breaks to certain companies. Beacon President and CEO …
April 14, 2006
Southfield, Mich.-based North Pointe Holdings Corporation today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Deloitte & Touche LLP as the company’s new independent auditors, replacing the firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. T In a written statement, North Pointe said that …