The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”) said it will support a bill marked up late Thursday in the House Financial Services Committee that would establish national standards on data security. The bipartisan bill, H.R. 3997, …
Quality Planning Corp., has appointed of Beth Olson assistant vice president of global services and strategic partnerships. She will be based in the San Francisco head office and will report to Mike Hallenberger, vice president of sales and marketing. Olson …
Trinity E&S Insurance Services, Bermuda Dunes, Calif., has named John F. Coe vice president brokerage and branch manager for the Petaluma, Calif. office. He will be responsible to growing the Northern California office and for supervising binding contract and brokerage …
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has revised its outlook on Harleysville, Pa.-based Harleysville Group Inc. to stable from negative. Standard & Poor’s also said that it affirmed its ‘BBB-‘ counterparty credit ratings on the company. “We revised the outlook because …
The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., Hartford, Conn., is lowering prices for many Utah drivers under its Dimensions personal auto insurance program, which is available through the company’s network of independent agents. New price adjustments will make the plan more …
California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has announced that Sacramento resident Wayne Allen Sorenson, 35, has been arrested on workers’ compensation insurance fraud charges after an investigation by the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Fraud Division revealed Sorenson allegedly collected Temporary …
American E&S Insurance Brokers, a wholesaler, has named Stephanie J. Smithson executive vice president-branch manager in its San Francisco office. Smithson joined American E&S in 2003 as a broker and most recently was sales and marketing manager. With more than …
Sacramento, Calif., resident John M. Ford, 33, has been arrested on insurance fraud charges after an investigation by the state Department of Insurance’s (CDI) Fraud Division revealed Ford allegedly submitted altered documents to support his automobile insurance claim. Ford was …
The strong winds that pushed wildfires across nearly a million acres of the bone-dry Texas Panhandle were easing early on Thursday, March 16, but in Oklahoma, the fire danger was picking up. A series of wind-whipped grass fires broke out …
Civil courts in New Orleans, La., have begun trying to speed up storm-related lawsuits – many of them against insurance companies – that deal with who should pay for property damages caused by hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Normally, plaintiffs wait …
