Hub International Ltd., the Chicago-based insurance brokerage, announced that it has acquired the assets of Clarity Benefits Group Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Clarity is an independent, boutique-style firm providing employee benefit …
Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based UFG Insurance has hired Scott Bailey as surety underwriting manager. He will succeed current surety underwriting manager, Art Fearn, who is retiring after a successful 15-year career with the company. Bailey brings more than 35 years of …
The Hilb Group, LLC has acquired Summit Insurance Services, LLC (SIS), the insurance operations of Summit Financial Group, Inc. of Moorefield, West Virginia. The transaction became effective May 1, 2019. Virginia-based SIS is an insurance agency that primarily provides employee …
Insurers will pay up to $42 million to surviving victims of a 2018 Florida bridge collapse and the families of those killed, under a deal announced Friday between the now-bankrupt construction company that built the pedestrian bridge and its insurers. …
Specialty insurer RLI Corp. announced that its chief financial officer is retiring and it has made other executive changes. CFO Thomas Brown, who is also a senior vice president, will retire on July 1, 2019 after eight years with RLI. …
International General Insurance Holdings Ltd. (IGI), the specialist commercial insurer and reinsurer, has expanded its growing portfolio of insurance business with the launch of intellectual property (IP) insurance. The new class of business has been introduced to complement IGI’s legal …
New York State Police have arrested Jonathan A Schuyler, 23, of Fort Plain, N.Y., for the felonies of arson in the third degree and insurance fraud in the third degree, according to a press release issued by The New York …
Authorities say a sport utility vehicle plowed into the front of a New Jersey pizzeria, leaving the driver and three people inside the restaurant with minor injuries. The Camden County prosecutor’s office says Pennsauken police responded shortly after 10 p.m. …
Rescue workers searched for survivors Saturday after a helicopter with two people aboard crashed into the Chesapeake Bay. The helicopter crashed into the water about a half-mile off Bloody Point, on the southern end of Kent Island. The scene is …
U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer is calling on the Centers for Disease Control to declare an emergency and unlock special funding to stem a potentially deadly drug-resistant fungus that’s been spreading at health care facilities. Schumer, the Senate Democratic Leader, says …
