Monthly Archives: February 2008

The Spillover of Bond Insurer Downgrades

By Rep. Paul E. Kanjorski
The House Capital Markets Subcommittee [wants] to learn about the causes and effects of recent bond insurer ratings downgrades. We...

It Figures

166 The Minnesota Department of Public Safety announced recently that 166 people were killed in alcohol-related crashes in Minnesota in...

Kansas Insurance Claims Drop

A tornado wiped out 95 percent of Greensburg. Hail storms rattled the south-central part of the state, damaging roofs. An...

People

Burns & Wilcox announced that Jeffrey Brown has joined the company’s Farmington, Mich., office as a broker. Brown will be...

Declarations

Big Brother is Watching “To me, it’s just a Big Brother thing …no smoking has become like Prohibition was, and...

Business Moves

Meadowbrook, U.S. Specialty Underwriters Southfield, Mich-based Meadowbrook Insurance Group Inc. announced it terminated the management agreement associated with its acquisition...

New Markets

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