April 12, 2016
The Hilb Group, a middle market insurance agency based in Richmond, Virginia, announced Tuesday that it has acquired Clark-Mortenson Insurance, a New Hampshire-based insurance and financial services agency. The terms of the transaction, which became effective April 1, were not …
April 12, 2016
The U.S. Department of Labor’sOccupational Safety and Health Administration has cited a Louisiana food manufacturing company for 25 serious and one other violation for exposing workers to hazardous chemicals, electrical dangers and fall hazards. Proposed fines total $124,000. OSHA discovered …
April 12, 2016
State transportation records show an increase in wrong-way highway crashes in Ohio, with more deaths so far in 2016 than in all of 2014. The Dayton Daily News reports Ohio Department of Transportation records show 47 wrong-way interstate highway crashes …
April 12, 2016
Amtrak has filed a federal lawsuit against a southwest Kansas feed yard, accusing it of gross negligence in relation to a train derailment that injured 32 passengers in March. In the suit filed by Amtrak and BNSF, the plaintiffs allege …
April 12, 2016
For the third time in a month large hail and damaging winds pummeled north Texas causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage, the Insurance Council of Texas reported. The storms caused the most damage in cities just north of …
April 12, 2016
A group of investors led by Matthew Sackett, former senior vice president of national sales for K&K Insurance and former president and CEO of Leisure Sports Specialists, has announced the formation of DOXA Insurance Holdings LLC (DOXA). The Fort Wayne, …
April 12, 2016
Church Insurance Agency recently joined Valley Insurance Agency Alliance (VIAA), a cohesive family of nearly 100 independent insurance agencies in Missouri and Southern Illinois. Church Insurance Agency, based in Paris, Ill., is a full-service insurance agency that specializes in home, …
April 12, 2016
New York state’s health exchange expects to enroll more than 470,000 New Yorkers in its new low-cost option for coverage this year. Testifying at an Assembly hearing last week, exchange Executive Director Donna Frescatore said New York chose to participate …
April 12, 2016
IFG Companies announced that its Board of Directors has approved the promotion of Christopher M. Lewis to group president. Lewis is based in IFG’s Hartford, Connecticut, office. Lewis has been serving as interim president for the past two months after …
April 12, 2016
The Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina (IIANC) announced that E. Stuart Powell Jr., MA, CPCU, CIC, CLU, ChFC, ARM, AMIM, AAI, ARe, CRIS will retire on July 31, 2016 from his current position as vice president of Technical Affairs …