October 24, 2016
Chicago-based insurer CNA has promoted Kelly Walsh to vice president, Branch Services and Lindsay Lovvorn to vice president, Product and Process Systems. Both Walsh and Lovvorn will report to Barb Sandelands, senior vice president, Underwriting Services, CNA Commercial. In the …
October 21, 2016
Traffic accidents involving farm vehicles in the Midwest would drop by more than 60 percent if state policies required more lighting and reflection on those vehicles, according to a study from the University of Iowa College of Public Health. The …
October 21, 2016
Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Acrisure LLC has signed a definitive agreement for a management-led buyout of the company, led by Greg Williams, Acrisure’s CEO and co-founder, and a consortium of minority investors. Acrisure management and its operating partners are acquiring control …
October 21, 2016
Serious Social Media, developer of the automated social media marketing service, InsuranceSocial.Media, and a 2016 graduate of the Global Insurance Accelerator (GIA) program, announced it has secured a second round of funding led by Iowa-based Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Co. (Grinnell …
October 21, 2016
The National Young Agents Committee (YAC) of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA or the Big “I”) has presented Kelly Hume of the Young Agents Council of the Michigan Association of Insurance Agents (MAIA) with its Outstanding …
October 21, 2016
University of Iowa is citing a copyright law to block the use of the university’s footage of a 2008 flood for an upcoming documentary. Doug Krejci, who is trying to gather materials for a documentary about eastern Iowa during the …
October 20, 2016
The state of Kansas plans to appeal a jury’s ruling that ordered it to pay $120,000 to the family of a 2007 car crash victim who died after a state trooper demanded she be sent to Missouri hospitals rather than …
October 20, 2016
Cameron, Mo.-based Cameron Mutual Insurance Co. has appointed Pat Conboy, as chief financial officer/treasurer. Conboy joins Cameron from MAG Mutual in Atlanta, Ga., where he served as vice president of Financial Planning and Analysis. Prior to his 16-year career with …
October 19, 2016
U.S. Sen. John Thune is requesting federal disaster aid for ranchers affected by a large prairie fire in western South Dakota that has destroyed buildings and killed livestock. Thune wrote to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, asking for immediate aid …
October 19, 2016
The National Transportation Safety Board has concluded the pilot in control of a corporate jet as it approached an Ohio airport improperly set the aircraft’s flaps and failed to maintain a proper speed, causing the plane to plunge into an …