Deerfield, Illinois-based employee benefits, property/casualty, risk management and wealth management firm, Alera Group, has acquired Hallberg Commercial Insurers Inc. in...
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What’s in a name? When St. Louis-based Powers Insurance and Benefits changed its name in August to Powers Insurance &...
Grinnell, Iowa-based property and casualty insurer/reinsurer, Grinnell Mutual, has named Dave Wingert, executive vice president and chief operating officer, to...
Highland Risk Services Inc. has added Matt Prewitt to its wholesale brokerage as vice president. Prewitt is based at Highland’s...
Workers’ compensation insurer, Missouri Employers Mutual (MEM), has announced a third round of safety grant recipients after awarding safety grants...
A.M. Best announced it has has downgraded the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-Term ICR) to “bbb” from “bbb+” and affirmed...
A suburban Detroit insurance agent has been sentenced to at least six years in prison for embezzling more than $800,000...
PolyMet Mining Corp. is offering the state a $544 million package of financial assurances to serve as an insurance policy...
Strong winds are fanning the flames of a growing wildfire in South Dakota, pushing the fire beyond the borders of...
Medical payments per workers’ compensation claim in Michigan were among the lowest of 18 state workers’ compensation systems analyzed in...