Massachusetts Agents Drop Ballot Effort on Credit Ban October 27, 2011 By Young Ha The Massachusetts Association of Insurance Agents (MAIA) has agreed to a request from state lawmakers to withdraw the ballot initiative...
Markets Cheer Euro Deal But Questions Remain October 27, 2011 By Julien Toyer and Luke Baker The euro and stocks rallied on Thursday after European leaders struck a deal to provide debt relief for Greece, but...
ABI Assures UK Flood Victims Insurers Ready to Help October 27, 2011 The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has issued a bulletin advising “anyone who has suffered flood damage as a result...
RIM Hit with Consumer Lawsuits over BlackBerry Outage October 27, 2011 By Moira Herbst Consumers in the United States and Canada have sued Research in Motion for a days-long service outage on BlackBerry devices...
AIR Reports on Heavy Rains, Floods in Ireland, Southwest England, Wales October 27, 2011 Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide has issued a bulletin on the “torrential rainfall” that has “caused widespread disruption and damage...
Third Quarter Earnings Reports: ACE Limited; Arch Capital October 27, 2011 ACE Limited: Q3 2011 Q3 2010 Gross premiums written– $5.9 bn $5.0 bn 9 months – 2011 —- 2010 $15.967...
High Hopes for High Tech: Interview with New Applied Systems CEO October 27, 2011 By Andrew G. Simpson Insurance agencies are under pressure to quickly adopt new technologies in order to keep up with competitors, according to a...
Ex-Mine Official Convicted in Deadly West Virginia Disaster October 26, 2011 The former security chief at a West Virginia coal mine where 29 miners died last year was convicted of two...
California Supreme Court Denies Petition on Ogilvie October 26, 2011 The California Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected San Francisco’s petition for review on Wednesday of the First District Court of...
Oklahoma Attorney Pleads Guilty to $1M Workers’ Comp Fraud Case October 26, 2011 A longtime Tulsa, Okla., criminal defense attorney has pleaded guilty in Tulsa County District Court for his role in helping...