Upstate South Carolina-based insurance organization, Rosenfeld Einstein, named Rod Martin as Director of Large Group Underwriting at the regional brokerage and consulting firm. A member of the National Association of Health Underwriters, and a native of Knoxville, Tenn., Martin joined …
Montgomery Insurance, a member of Liberty Mutual Group, announced the recent addition of Virginia personal and commercial field underwriting specialists, territory managers, and underwriting staff in Central and Southern Virginia to support its appointed agents and targeted growth in that …
American International Group, Inc. and Liberty Mutual Group have each been been granted approval by the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) to establish a wholly owned subsidiary in China. AIG said that its subsidiary, AIU Insurance Co. (AIU), has been …
The federal Terrorism Risk Insurance Revision and Extension Act moved out of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises this week and on to the full House Financial Services Committee. The measure (H.R. 2761) …
The Hartford Risk Management Division announced the appointment of Dean Butler as Risk Management Sales Practice leader for the company’s Dallas office. Butler will be responsible for national accounts/loss sensitive production underwriting and marketing to the division’s network of risk …
The Central Texas Chapter of the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters (CPCU) Society announced the newly elected officers for 2007-2008. The new officers are: President – Stephanie Harvey, senior underwriter of Texas Municipal League – IRP; President-elect – Kim Kimball, auto …
A federal jury in Oklahoma convicted the owners of a Norman employment service of defrauding businesses by billing them for workers’ compensation insurance coverage that didn’t exist. The panel found Justin Bruner, 36, of Norman, and Paul W. Voyles Jr., …
Following a series of burglaries at insurance agencies in Arkansas, Insurance Commissioner Julie Benafield Bowman issued a reminder to all insurance companies of the notification requirements concerning security breaches. Should such a breach occur, companies are required to disclose the …
The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) announced it will hold a stakeholder meeting at 9:30 a.m. on Aug. 1, 2007, to allow for comment on informal working draft rules concerning reimbursements for hospital facility services provided …
U.S. Reps. Melissa Bean, D-Ill., and Ed Royce, R-Calif., have reintroduced their National Insurance Act of 2007, the so-called optional federal charter bill that proposes letting insurance companies choose federal over state regulation. The Royce-Bean bill is similar to Senate …
