MarketScout, the Dallas-based electronic insurance exchange with managing general agent and wholesale operations, has expanded by opening a personal lines underwriting facility in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The new location will serve the firm’s national network of agents by focusing specifically …
Lockton has hired Marianne Halvorsen as vice president and producer. Halvorsen, who will be based in New York, previously served as a vice president and client advocate with Willis. She is also an instructor at St. John’s University.
After more than 42 years of service to the California workers’ compensation community, Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau President and CEO Robert Mike announced that he will retire effective Dec. 1, 2011. Planning for Mike’s succession began in late 2010. …
Metro-North plans to bill a 40-year-old woman for the damage one of its trains suffered when it struck the woman’s car in Milford, Connecticut on Sunday. Metro-North spokeswoman Marjorie Anders says the commuter railroad has determined that Vicki Buker-Besse of …
The widow of Thomas L. Moore, who drowned when a fishing boat and ship collided in the Mississippi Sound, has filed a federal lawsuit against the owners of both vessels. Beverly Ann Moore is suing Omega Protein Inc., owner of …
Chicago-based broker Hub International Limited has completed the previously-announced acquisition of First Southeast Insurance Services, Inc., an insurance brokerage firm headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina. FSIS has four operating units in North and South Carolina that will become a new …
A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘A-‘ (Excellent) and issuer credit rating of “a-” of Cayman Islands-based Island Heritage Insurance Company, Ltd., both with stable outlooks. The ratings of Island Heritage reflect its “solid level of …
The Supreme Court this week threw out damage claims against former Attorney General John Ashcroft over an American Muslim’s arrest, but four justices said the case raises serious questions about post-9/11 detentions under a federal law intended to make sure …
The South Carolina Senate has given approval to a bill limiting lawsuit punitive damages, but bucked South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley along the way. Haley wanted the Senate to go along with the House and approve a cap of $350,000 …
Hundreds of people regained their driving privileges during South Carolina’s first amnesty program for suspended licenses. The Department of Motor Vehicles said the agency reissued 233 licenses between May 16 and 20. People eligible for the program had violations such …
