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City of Hartford Loses Insurance Policy in Wrongful Imprisonment

Hartford, Conn., officials say they cannot find a 30-year-old insurance policy that could play a key role in any damages or settlement the city would have to pay in a lawsuit filed by a man wrongly imprisoned for murder for …

Man Convicted of Murder-for-Hire Scheme in Delaware

A man has been convicted in a murder-for-hire scheme in Delaware. The state’s justice department says a jury has convicted Ryan Shover of York, Penn., of first-degree murder and other charges in the 2013 slaying of Wayne Cappelli. Authorities say …

New York’s Evergreen Insurance and Risk Management Promotes Kivelevitz

Evergreen Insurance and Risk Management, a Monsey, N.Y.-based real estate insurer, has promoted Joel Kivelevitz to vice president of operations. He began working in his new capacity February 1. Kivelevitz has worked at Evergreen for more than five years, previously …

Worldwide Facilities Opens Boston Office, Hires Two Senior Vice Presidents

Worldwide Facilities has announced the opening of a new location in Boston, Mass., and hired Mike McNally and Todd Pollock to the office as senior vice presidents. Worldwide Facilities is a national wholesale insurance broker and managing general agent that …

New Report Says New York Construction Fatalities Rising

A new report says construction deaths in New York state hit a 14-year high in 2016. The study issued Wednesday by the union-backed New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health found that 71 workers died in construction-related accidents in …

Ryan Specialty Group Completes Acquisition of New York’s Irwin Siegel Agency

Ryan Specialty Group LLC, a Chicago, Ill.-headquartered international specialty insurance organization, has completed its acquisition of the assets and operations of the Irwin Siegel Agency Inc. (ISA). This transaction was previously announced on January 24, 2018. ISA is a human …

Virginia’s Continental Underwriters Promotes Huang to Chief Operating Officer

Continental Underwriters Inc., a Richmond, Va.-based managing general underwriter and wholesale broker, has promoted Amanda Huang to chief operating officer. Huang has been a part of Continental for more than 12 years. She has taken on many roles within the …

Massachusetts Launches Online Data Breach Reporting Portal

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey has launched a new Data Breach Reporting Online Portal, which businesses and organizations can use to provide notice to the AG’s Office as required by the Massachusetts Data Breach Notification Law. The portal, available through …

Normandy Insurance Company Hires Morton as Pennsylvania Field Manager

Normandy Insurance Company, a Deerfield Beach, Fla.-headquartered workers’ compensation carrier, has hired Kelly Morton as its Pennsylvania field manager. The multi-state workers’ compensation carrier recently began offering coverage plans to small, mid-size and large businesses in Pennsylvania. The insurer also …

Lawyers Seek to Compel Boater to Speak about Missing Gun in Rhode Island Court

An insurance company has asked a federal judge to force a man to discuss what happened to a missing gun that matches the caliber of the gun used to kill his millionaire grandfather. National Liability & Fire Insurance company lawyers …

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