Allstate announced on Friday that the Superior Court of New Jersey has entered judgment in favor of Allstate New Jersey Insurance Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Allstate Insurance Company, and dismissed all claims in the franchise lawsuits filed against …
Professional Program Insurance Brokerage (PPIB) has launched an outpatient medical facilities program. The program is available in all states and offered to both retail and wholesale insurance companies. The program will provide general and professional liability coverage for ambulatory surgery …
Federal and state agencies are opening a new disaster recovery center in Spotsylvania County and reopening one in Louisa County in Virginia to assist victims of last year’s earthquake. The Spotsylvania center at 3960 Courthouse Road and the Louisa center …
Heffernan Insurance Brokers, an independent insurance brokerage headquartered in Walnut Creek, Calif., has hired Elizabeth McMurray to join its Manhattan office in New York as account executive. McMurray has over 20 years of industry experience. Her past responsibilities included developing, …
Short Hills, N.J.-based insurance broker Bollinger acquired Argent Professional Insurance Agency in Warren, N.J. Bollinger said the acquisition would help bolster its professional liability insurance brokerage business. Bollinger has also formed a new professional liability division within its agency. In …
Business property insurer FM Global appointed Rod Fisher as senior vice president of underwriting and reinsurance. In his new role, based at the company’s Johnston, R.I., headquarters, Fisher will be responsible for the company’s overall underwriting and reinsurance functions. Previously, …
A pair of wildfires fueled by strong wind gusts that burned buildings and forced the evacuation of hundreds on Montana’s Blackfeet Indian Reservation were helped by milder weather conditions on Thursday as firefighters got a better handle on the blazes, …
The family of a British commodities trader who died while partying in Las Vegas will accept $350,000 to end a federal lawsuit stemming from the disappearance of the man’s internal organs after an autopsy and before his body was returned …
A judge set an April 9 hearing for considering a request by opponents of Arizona’s 2010 immigration enforcement law to grant class-action status in their lawsuit that seeks to declare the law unconstitutional. The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational …
It turns out there was another player in last year’s merger deal between Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. and Harleysville Mutual Insurance Co. According to a news report, Liberty Mutual also made an offer last September to buy Harleysville but was …
