Monthly Archives: <span>January 2019</span>

Beecher Carlson Taps ACM to Handle Claims for National Client

San Diego, CA, January 7, 2019 – DS Services of America, in partnership with their broker Beecher Carlson, recently selected American Claims Management (ACM) to handle claims management in a portion of the states in which they operate. “In our …

Warren G. Bender in California Names Amano Commercial Lines Account Executive

Sacramento, Calif.-based Warren G. Bender Co. has named Kaz Amano an account executive in its commercial lines department. He has more than 12 years of prior experience in commercial insurance. He was previously an account executive with Church and Casualty …

Central Mississippi Hit by Flooding from Heavy Rains

Parts of Mississippi continue to deal with river flooding as rains continue to fall. The National Weather Service had a flood warning through Sunday night for Tallahala Creek at Laurel in Jones County. A warning was also in effect for …

Associated Agencies Taps Shapiro to Expand Southeast Presence

Associated Agencies, Inc. has hired Stuart Shapiro as an account executive on its sales team. Shapiro will be responsible for expanding Associated Agencies’ presence in the Southeast, specifically in the Atlanta market. He will focus on building insurance programs for …

5 Children in Church Van Killed in Fiery Crash on Florida Interstate

A church van packed with children was headed to Walt Disney World when it got caught in a fiery pileup involving two 18-wheelers. Seven people, including five of the youngsters, died in the crash. On Friday, investigators tried to determine …

AGCS, Praedicat to Offer Product Safety Resource to Industrial Companies

Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS), and Praedicat, an insurtech analytics company based in Los Angeles, have expanded their partnership to provide access to ChemMeta, Praedicat’s software product delivering science and regulatory risk analytics for industrial companies. ChemMeta allows both …

Libertate/Risk MD Merges With Ballator Group of Florida

Ballator Insurance Group (BIG) of Orlando, Fla., and Libertate Insurance/RiskMD have merged to offer support with insurance placements and data management for professional employer organizations (PEO’s). BIG and its senior management team have created multiple risk-bearing entities with specialization in …

Not#YouToo

How Not to Become Part of the #MeToo Conversation, and Where to Look for Help If You Do Not long ago, if someone asked you if you had heard about Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey, you would assume they were …

CoverWallet Opens Its Tech Platform, Carriers to Independent Agents

“We give you a login and password, and then every time that you talk to a customer, you can use our platform to sell faster, simpler, quicker,” said CoverWallet CEO Inaki Berenguer, referring to insurance agents he hopes will use …

How Property/Casualty Insurance Is Becoming Less Valuable

I wrote about this some months ago and received many interesting comments. I decided to follow up on the same subject because it is so important. Value is a relative term often specific to a given asset. For example, if …