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Gulfstream Insurance of Florida Appoints Thompson as General Counsel, VP of Legal & Compliance
Sep 19 2019 // Gulfstream Property and Casualty Insurance Co. has appointed appointment of Lisa B. Thompson to general counsel, vice president of Legal & Compliance. Prior to joining Gulfstream, Thompson served as senior vice...
Board of Iowa Public Entities Insurance Pool Criticized for Out-of-State Travel, Expenses
Sep 18 2019 // Board members of an Iowa government insurance program have frequently held public meetings at posh out-of-state resorts, costing tens of thousands of dollars while making it harder for the public to attend, a review by The...
Florida-Based We Insure Group Adds Plfueger, Crowe to Executive Team
Sep 17 2019 // We Insure Group has expanded its executive team with two new hires – Chris Pflueger has joined as chief development officer and Peter Crowe as chief revenue officer. Chris Pflueger Pflueger will execute strategies to...
Florida’s Auditor General to Focus on Protecting Student Data
Sep 16 2019 // Florida is cracking down to ensure school districts, state colleges and state universities are protecting students’ Social Security numbers. In the past two years, state auditors have found that at least one-third of...
People & Places
Sep 16 2019 // National Ralph Blust Insurance broker Aon has appointed Jay Demeusy as U.S. vice chairman of its Reinsurance Solutions business. Alongside his new role, Demeusy will continue to chair the newly formed Global Construction...
Business Moves
Sep 16 2019 // National Arch Insurance, Ventus Risk Management Arch Insurance North America has agreed to acquire Ventus Risk Management, a technology and analytics- driven managing general underwriter that specializes in providing...
Florida-Based Main Street America Group Names Listau President, CEO; Kusch COO
Sep 13 2019 // The Main Street America Group, a super-regional property/casualty insurance company, has announced Chris Listau, the company’s current president of insurance operations, will succeed Tom Van Berkel as president and...
New Tropical Storm Threatens Bahamas and Could Set Sights on Eastern Florida
Sep 13 2019 // Tropical storm warnings have been declared for the Bahamas, which was just battered by Hurricane Dorian, evidence of strengthening in a system that forecasters say is moving toward Florida or the Gulf of Mexico. The storm...
Wright National Flood Insurance, Zurich Launch Private Flood Product in Florida
Sep 12 2019 // Wright National Flood Insurance Services, LLC (WNFIS) and Zurich North America have introduced Zurich Residential Private Flood Insurance program. This stand-alone admitted product launched exclusively in Florida on...
NCCI Proposes 5.4% Decrease in Florida Workers’ Comp Rates
Sep 11 2019 // Florida businesses will see another workers’ comp rate decrease next year if the latest filing by the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) is approved by Florida regulators. Carrier results continue to...
The Aftermath of Hurricane Dorian: Southeast States ‘Dodged a Bullet’
Sep 10 2019 // Residents and the insurance industry in Southeast states are feeling relieved after Hurricane Dorian grazed the U.S. coastline last week just days after it caused catastrophic damage in the Bahamas. While the storm was at...
Residents of North Carolina’s Outer Banks Take Stock of Dorian’s Damage
Sep 9 2019 // Skies cleared and floodwaters receded Saturday from North Carolina’s Outer Banks, leaving behind a muddy trail of destruction wrought by Hurricane Dorian, which turned north and began lashing parts of eastern...
Houston Business Insurance Agency Acquired by Florida’s AssuredPartners
Sep 5 2019 // Florida-based AssuredPartners Inc. has acquired Houston Business Insurance Agency located in Houston, Texas. The acquired agency’s team of five will remain under the operational leadership of Dominique...
U.S. Risk Acquires Regency Insurance Brokerage Services of Florida
Sep 5 2019 // U.S. Risk, LLC, a property and casualty wholesaler and MGA, has acquired Regency Insurance Brokerage Services, a wholesale broker and MGA headquartered in Hallandale Beach, Fla., with additional locations in New York, New...
CoreLogic: More Than 600K Homes in Carolinas Could Be At Risk from Dorian
Sep 5 2019 // The wrath of Hurricane Dorian isn’t over yet and many more communities in its path are at risk and are bracing for the storm after it demolished the Bahamas earlier this week. The extremely slow-moving hurricane is...
Tesla Autopilot Design, Plus Driver Error, to Blame for 2018 Crash: Safety Board
Sep 5 2019 // The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Wednesday cited driver errors and Tesla Inc.’s Autopilot design as the probable cause of a January 2018 crash of a Model S into a parked fire truck on a highway in...
Bahamas Facing Humanitarian Crisis in Wake of Hurricane Dorian
Sep 4 2019 // FREEPORT, Bahamas (AP) — Practically parking over the Bahamas for a day and a half, Hurricane Dorian pounded away at the islands Tuesday in a watery onslaught that devastated thousands of homes, trapped people in attics...
U.S. Cotton, Peanuts at Risk as Hurricane Makes Northward Turn
Sep 4 2019 // With Florida orange groves seemingly escaping major damage from Hurricane Dorian, concern now turns to soy, corn and cotton fields as well as livestock in Georgia and the Carolinas as the hurricane churns northward. North...
Hurricane Dorian Means 4th Evacuation in 4 Years for Many Southeast Residents
Sep 4 2019 // It’s become a hurricane-season ritual in the Southeast: When a storm threatens, coastal residents board up homes, load up SUVs and fill highways where the traffic lanes are reversed to offer a speedy escape...
Update: Hurricane Dorian Spares Florida Direct Hit; Travels to Carolinas, Georgia
Sep 3 2019 // Sep 4, 2019, 5:31 AM — Hurricane Dorian menaced the U.S. East Coast with devastating flooding and winds, lashing Florida after laying waste to the Bahamas in a brutal two-day battering that caused damage that may cost...
