Monthly Archives: <span>July 2020</span>

Missouri Won’t Shut Down Summer Camps Despite Virus Outbreaks

Missouri leaders knew the risk of convening thousands of kids at summer camps across the state during a pandemic, the state’s top health official said, and insisted that camp organizers have plans in place to keep an outbreak from happening. …

Iowa’s BrokerTech Ventures Gains 4 New Carrier, Wholesale Partners

BrokerTech Ventures, an insurance broker-led platform and accelerator program based in Des Moines, Iowa, has added four super-regional and national insurance firms as partners: The Cincinnati Insurance Companies, Fairfield, Ohio RT Specialty LLC, Chicago, Ill. Amerisure Mutual Insurance Co., Farmington …

13 Hawaiian Airlines Employees Test Positive for COVID-19

Hawaiian Airlines Inc. says 13 of its employees have tested positive for the coronavirus following an annual training course. The employees who tested positive for COVID-19 took part in flight attendant training at the airline’s Honolulu headquarters about two weeks …

Colorado Files Suit Against Juul for Marketing to Minors

Colorado has filed a lawsuit against an e-cigarette manufacturer saying the company marketed products to children and downplayed health risks. The lawsuit filed in Denver District Court this week says Juul Labs Inc. violated the Colorado Consumer Protection Act, The …

Profile: MGA Nexus Group Sets Sights on U.S. Growth, Even During COVID-19 Crisis

Nexus Group, the UK-based managing general agent, is looking to the U.S. for growth opportunities, despite the raging COVID-19 crisis. “With the political landscape and Brexit, it was an obvious choice for us to focus our attention on the U.S.,” …

Chubb Unveils Public-Private Program for Pandemic Business Interruption

Chubb unveiled a proposal for the insurance industry and federal government to partner on covering future pandemic-related business interruptions—and to get money to small businesses quickly—following through on an earlier promise from CEO Evan Greenberg. Documents shared with Carrier Management …

London Workers Seek Assurance Transport System Is Safe Before Returning to Offices

Workers in the City of London need to have greater confidence that traveling on the capital’s public transport system is safe before they will return to their offices amid “mixed messages” from officials, financial industry representatives said. More than 80% …

CBIZ Inc. Acquires Assets of Virginia’s Prince-Wood Insurance

CBIZ Inc. has acquired substantially all of the assets of Prince-Wood Insurance L.L.C. (PWI) of Woodbridge, Va., effective July 1, 2020. Established in 1967, PWI provides property and casualty insurance to small and mid-sized businesses in Northern and Central Virginia, …

World Insurance Associates Acquires Rhode Island’s Bentsen Combies Insurance

World Insurance Associates LLC (WIA) has acquired Bentsen Combies Insurance Inc. of East Greenwich, R.I., on June 1, 2020. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Bentsen Combies is an independent insurance agency that has been serving the local community …

Sanity Trial in Maryland Newspaper Shooting Postponed Amid Pandemic

Court proceedings to determine criminal sanity for a man who pleaded guilty to killing five people at Maryland newspaper have been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic. Jarrod Ramos’ pre-trial hearings have been moved to August and a sanity trial …