Health care plays a significant role in Pennsylvania’s economy; however, the future of patient care is uncertain as problems with insurance and supply of services as well as increased demand for care combine to severely stress the system. The number …
British track and field athletes will need to sign performance-based contracts in order to get funding under a new sponsorship agreement aimed at producing champions for the 2012 London Olympics. The five-year, 50-million-pound (US$87.5 million; euro71.4 million) deal announced Wednesday …
A judge has approved a $2.65 billion (euro2.18 billion) class-action settlement of claims that advertising revenue was counted in a fraudulent manner prior to the merger of America Online Inc. and Time Warner Inc. U.S. District Judge Shirley Wohl Kram …
The man behind the wheel of Progressive Insurance’s independent agency brand, Drive Insurance, has resigned. The Progressive Corporation in Mayfield, Ohio announced on April 7th that it had accepted the resignation of Robert T. Williams, effective May 17. Williams is …
Willis Group Holdings, Ltd. has appointed five new insurance professionals to its Canadian operations. Ayesha Navarro, Murray Kammer, Charles Fogden, Matthew Cook, and Douglas Bundock are based in Toronto, Canada. “The addition of these leading industry professionals to our business …
NAS Insurance Services Inc. now offers architects and engineers errors and omissions insurance through qualifying wholesale brokers. Target classes include, but are not limited to, Architects/Building Design, Civil Engineers, Construction Staking, Electrical Engineers, HVAC, Interior Designers (industrial), Land Surveyors, Landscape …
Aon appointed Kathy Burns as chief executive officer, Aon Risk Services Americas (ARS-A) eSolutions Group. With this appointment, Burns returns to Aon where she served from 1987 to 2002, after having spent the past three and a half years at …
Giles Insurance Brokers, Scotland’s largest independent insurance broker, announced the opening of its first American office in the Chicago area. According to its written statement, Giles US Insurance Brokers, based in Northbrook, Ill., will specialize in commercial insurance and risk-management …
Carol Sipe has been named senior vice president and general manager of operations for Summit, a provider of workers’ compensation insurance services in the Southeast. The new position is part of a reorganization designed to help the firm continue to …
First Bank, a Mo. state chartered bank and wholly owned subsidiary of First Banks, Inc. headquartered in St. Louis, Mo., and Adrian N. Baker & Company, a Del.corporation, jointly announced the signing of a Stock Purchase Agreement on March 30, …
