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Randall & Quilter to Acquire Coffey Group’s Irish Captive

Randall & Quilter Investment Holdings Ltd. (R&Q) announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Western Captive Insurance Company Designated Activity Company (WCIC) from the Coffey Group of companies in Ireland. WCIC is Coffey’s Irish-domiciled captive insurance company. The …

Japanese Typhoons Put Downward Pressure on Creditworthiness of Insurers: S&P

The recent run of large natural disasters to hit Japan likely has put downward pressure on the creditworthiness of the nation’s three largest non-life insurance groups, according to S&P Global Ratings in a market briefing. Following July’s heavy rains, Typhoon …

MJ Insurance, HealthJoy Partner on Employee Benefits

MJ Insurance, headquartered in Indianapolis, has partnered with HealthJoy, a healthcare guidance platform that helps employees make informed healthcare decisions and provides a variety of cost containment strategies to help lower employer healthcare costs. HealthJoy advances current telemedicine offerings by …

Texas Supreme Court: Family Can Sue City for Man’s Wrongful Death

The family of a Fort Worth man who died after they say officers needlessly choked, kicked and shot with a stun gun during a 2013 drug raid can proceed with a wrongful death lawsuit against two officers and the city, …

The Floow Adds Bylsma, Mendralla in Detroit HQ

Automotive insurance telematics company, The Floow, has hired Cindy Bylsma and Brian Mendralla in Detroit, Michigan, as business analysts. Before joining The Floow, Bylsma was a business analyst and applications support analyst in the supply chain management, food safety, higher …

OptOn Offering On-Demand Insurance for Illinois Rideshare Drivers

OptOn has launched its mobile, on-demand, commercial insurance product for rideshare drivers in Illinois. The company said the mobile app provides short-term primary insurance coverage for rideshare drivers across all rideshare driving periods with premium priced per mile. In OpOn’s …

Digital Broker Kelly Klee Launches Online Coverage Plan for Private Clients

Kelly Klee, Inc., a digital insurance broker in the high net worth space, has released a customizable online coverage plan for private client insurance. The new Kelly Klee online coverage plan allows consumers to see quotes for all their assets, …

Florida Woman Arrested Over $50K Workers’ Comp Fraud Scheme

A Florida woman was arrested in August and charged with three felony counts of concealing payroll to avoid workers’ compensation premiums and two felony counts of application fraud, according to a statement from the Florida Department of Financial Services. Florida …

Fatal Car Crashes Fell 2% in 2017; 2018 Appears to Follow Trend

Final U.S. highway fatality numbers for 2017 are down following two consecutive years of large increases. In addition, preliminary estimates for the first six months of 2018 appear to show that this downward trend continues into this year. The U.S. …

Canada MGA Totten Insurance Buys Lloyd’s Coverholder Anderson McTague

Totten Insurance Group Inc., a Toronto-based managing general agency, announced it has acquired Anderson McTague & Associates Ltd. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Headquartered in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, Anderson McTague has served Atlantic Canada’s independent insurance …