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CLAIMS, LICENSING BILLS MOVE

The Senate Insurance Committee approved AB 393, the agent licensing bill, and AB 481, the claims bill, at a hearing...

OVERSEAS TO BUY RELIANCE RE

Bermuda-based Overseas Partners Ltd (OPL) has agreed to acquire Reliance Reinsurance Co. from Reliance Insurance Co., but will not assume...

WASH. RULING IS A VICTORY

The Washington State Supreme Court decided unanimously to affirm a lower court’s ruling that insurers need not include all possible...

RIMS’ JUDD PASSES AWAY

Granville E. Judd (known in the industry as Ron Judd) recently passed away. Born in Egbert, Wyo., in 1929, Judd...

XCELERATING INTO EBIZ

Xcelerate Corp., a national eBusiness and wireless Internet solutions company with offices in Atlanta, Dallas and New York, has launched...

AFG FEELING BLUE

American Financial Group Inc.’s (AFG) second-quarter earnings from insurance businesses will be negatively impacted by certain litigation charges and by...

e-SIGNATURE BILL SIGNED

“And all of you young people will someday look back on this day …and marvel that it was considered a...

MARSHMAC EXPANDS ABROAD

According to reports appearing in the Times of London, and France’s financial newspaper Les Echos, the world’s largest broker, Marsh...

LAMBERT FENCHURCH CEO LEAVES

The opportunities for exponential growth and market branding within the e-commerce sector captured yet another top insurance industry executive. This...

eYOUR MIND

eMind.com, a business-to-business e-learning provider has signed a deal with iPipeline.com to build an online education arm to iPipeline’s insurance...

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