Latest Allied Insurance Headlines
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Remote Workers Can Be Big Cyber Risk for Small Businesses
Aug 9 2019 // Remote employees place businesses at risk, yet many small business owners are not properly mitigating potential cyberthreats, nor are they adequately protecting their employee platforms, a new report says. As work-life and...
Hub Acquires Books of Business, Hires 4 Nationwide Agents in Pennsylvania
Aug 8 2019 // Hub International Limited (Hub), a global insurance brokerage, has acquired property and casualty books of business from, and hired, insurance agents Matthew Lennon, Craig Love, Frank and Michael Namath. Each of the agents...
Iowa’s LMC Insurance Teams Up with Nationwide on Renters Insurance Program
Aug 6 2019 // LMC Insurance and Risk Management (LMC Insurance) in West Des Moines, Iowa, has partnered with Ohio-based Nationwide on a new renters insurance program. Called BluCanopy, the program is powered by Nationwide.com and makes...
Nationwide Offers Independent Agents a Commercial Insurance Digital Storefront
Jul 9 2019 // Giant insurer Nationwide is partnering with an insurtech in an effort to speed up its product underwriting for commercial lines property/casualty agents. The technology Nationwide is deploying was developed by Ohio-based...
Nationwide Taps Insider Walker as CEO to Succeed Rasmussen
Jun 6 2019 // Columbus, Ohio-based insurer Nationwide said Kirt Walker, a 33-year company veteran, will become its next chief executive officer. Plans call for Walker to take over the CEO slot on Oct. 1, 2019. He will succeed current...
Ryan Specialty Group and Nationwide Form Bermuda Reinsurer, Geneva Re
May 7 2019 // Ryan Specialty Group (RSG) and Nationwide announced they have formed a new Bermuda reinsurance company, Geneva Re Ltd. Columbus, Ohio-headquartered Nationwide will own 50 percent of the venture with RSG and RSG-related...
Nationwide Expands Small Business Insurance Direct Platform
Apr 15 2019 // Nationwide said it has expanded 24-hour access to more types of small business for its Commercial Digital Direct online commercial insurance platform. Now, 30 different business types can access the...
Nationwide Insurance CEO Rasmussen to Retire After 10 Years at Helm
Apr 8 2019 // Long-time Nationwide Chief Executive Officer Steve Rasmussen plans to retire later in 2019, the company disclosed. Rasmussen’s last official day as CEO will be Oct. 1, 2019, capping more than 10 years leading the...
Nationwide Expands Small Business Insurance Direct Platform
Apr 3 2019 // Nationwide said it has expanded 24-hour access to more types of small business for its Commercial Digital Direct online commercial insurance platform. Now, 30 different business types can access the platform, which enables...
Nationwide Is Cutting Many More Jobs in Iowa than Originally Announced
Mar 4 2019 // Nationwide Insurance, based in Columbus, Ohio, has more than doubled the number of Des Moines, Iowa, job cuts it announced last fall. Nationwide said in November 2018 that about 80 workers in Des Moines would lose their...
Nationwide Insurance Cuts More Jobs in Iowa
Feb 22 2019 // Nationwide Insurance has more than doubled the number of Des Moines job cuts it announced last fall. Nationwide said in November that about 80 workers in Des Moines would lose their jobs as part of a company effort to...
Nationwide’s ‘SmartMiles’ Auto Insurance Targets Low-Mileage Drivers
Feb 14 2019 // For those who work from home, carpool frequently or use public transit more than they drive, Nationwide is launching SmartMiles, an auto insurance policy for low-mileage drivers. BuildIng on its telematics SmartRide...
Nationwide Invests in Core Systems Insurtech Start-Up Socotra
Feb 13 2019 // Nationwide’s latest venture capital investment is in a core technology start-up that promises to help insurers create new insurance products and get them to market faster and integrate more easily with future...
Business Moves
Jan 21 2019 // EPIC Holdings, Integro EPIC Holdings Inc. in San Francisco has agreed to acquire Integro Holdings Inc., which houses the U.S. operations of New York-based Integro Group Holdings. The acquisition will add 400 team members...
Millennial Business Owners Like Agents
Jan 7 2019 // Millennial business owners are more likely to work with insurance agents than those in other generations. What’s more, they’re seeking agent counsel on a variety of financial issues, according to...
Nationwide Acquires Liability Insurance Program Manager E-Risk Services
Jan 4 2019 // Insurer Nationwide has acquired E-Risk Services, a privately-held, program manager specializing in management lines. Terms of the purchase agreement between were not disclosed. The transaction closed on January 1,...
How Different Generations of Business Owners Feel About Insurance Agents
Dec 13 2018 // Millennial business owners are more likely to work with insurance agents than those in other generations. What’s more, they’re seeking agent counsel on a variety of financial issues, according to...
Nationwide Insurance Cutting 1,000 Jobs
Nov 15 2018 // Nationwide intends to eliminate the jobs of about 1,100 employees across the country _ around 3.6 percent of its workforce. The insurance and financial services company says about 80 workers in Des Moines and 350 in...
South Carolina Insurer Data Security Law Should Be Nationwide Role Model
Nov 5 2018 // In October 2017, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) adopted the Insurance Data Security Model Bill, also known as the NAIC “Model Law.” NAIC’s “Model Law” seeks to...
Opioid Memorial in Houston as Part of Nationwide Tour
Oct 23 2018 // The National Safety Council on Monday made Houston the sixth stop on a nationwide tour of its exhibit, Prescribed to Death: A Memorial to the Victims of the Opioid Crisis, by unveiling the display inside the George R....
