An Ohio outpatient mental health treatment facility has agreed to pay a $16,000 settlement and take numerous steps to improve workplace safety after a patient attacked a nurse practitioner violently in April 2024. Responding to the incident, investigators with the …
North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Jon Godfread will serve as the president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) for 2025 after serving as president-elect in 2024. As NAIC president, Godfread will lead the chief insurance regulators in all 50 …
World Insurance Associates LLC announced that it acquired the business of First International Insurance (“FI Insurance”) -a division of First International Bank & Trust of Watford City, North Dakota on October 1, 2024. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. …
Omaha National Group, Inc. appointed Joan Klucarich as its chief actuary. Klucarich joins Omaha National after working as actuarial manager with Risk & Regulatory Consulting, a national professional services firm. Klucarich’s experience also includes chief reserving actuary at Applied Underwriters …
Risk Strategies announced it has acquired the assets of Ohio-based employee benefits specialty organization Cornerstone Broker Insurance Services Agency, Inc., an Ohio-based national provider of employee benefits solutions. The sale also included the assets of ARC Benefit Solutions, which provides …
A-G Specialty announced the acquisition of First Agency TPA, A Gallagher Company. First Agency TPA specializes in student and athletic accident coverage at both the interscholastic and intercollegiate levels, as well as special – risk programs such as summer camp …
Columbia Insurance Group (CIG), headquartered in Columbia, Missouri, hired Aaron Rieth as vice president of excess and surplus (E&S). In this newly created position, Rieth leads the development of CIG’s direct-to-agent E&S solution. Rieth has 20 years of experience in …
Great American Insurance Group, headquartered in Cincinnati, promoted Todd D. Gambrell to divisional president, excess liability, effective Jan.1, 2025. Gambrell will succeed John V. Bracca, who will retire in January after more than 30 years of service. Gambrell joined Great …
A new Gold Rush is taking shape on a quiet stretch of Kansas prairie. There, a clutch of startups backed by the likes of Bill Gates are searching below the surface for naturally occurring hydrogen, a fuel that can generate …
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Two Missouri police officers were indicted separately this week and accused of similar crimes — pulling over women and searching their phones to find nude photos. The indictments of former Missouri State Highway Patrol officer David …
