Florida’s Citizens Issues Largest Catastrophe Reinsurance Bond on Record May 3, 2012 By Michael Adams Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corp. has entered the catastrophic bond market in a big way by issuing $750 million in...
Bill Permits Golf Carts on Mississippi City Streets May 3, 2012 A bill that would allow golf carts on the streets of Diamondhead has been sent to Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant,...
Florida Yacht Crew Firm Faces Damages Over Discriminatory Email May 3, 2012 A Fort Lauderdale, Florida company that hires crews for yachts is facing damages after an employee accidentally sent an email...
Partner Perspective What 25 Acquisitions Taught Me About Operational Consistency Presented by Fulcrum Over the course of my career I have been involved in more than 25 agency acquisitions, first as VP of...
Mississippi Lawmakers Pass Workers’ Compensation Changes Backed by Employers May 2, 2012 By Emily Wagster Pettus Mississippi legislators offered sharply different views of a bill they passed Monday to change the way compensation is awarded to...
Gaylord Hotels Suing Government Over 2010 Nashville Floods May 2, 2012 By Shelia Byrd Gaylord Entertainment Co. has filed a lawsuit accusing the National Weather Service and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers of...
Allied World Re Opens Miami Office for Latin America; Names Turkel Senior VP May 2, 2012 Allied World Reinsurance Co. has opened a new office in Miami in order to further expand its operations in Latin...
South Carolina Coast Bracing for Next Wildfire May 2, 2012 By Bruce Smith Pat Henry will long remember that April night when the western horizon glowed an eerie red, smoking embers cascaded from...
More Families Building Their Own Tornado Shelters May 2, 2012 By Holbrook Mohr, Jim Salter and Phillip Rawls When deadly twisters chewed through the South and Midwest in 2011, thousands of people in the killers’ paths had nowhere...
Court Reverses Mississippi Award Over ‘Negligent’ Flood Policy Advice May 1, 2012 By Andrew G. Simpson An insurance company selling federal flood insurance has won a case against a Mississippi homeowner who claimed the insurer was...
Aon Risk Solutions Appoints Resident Managing Director in Atlanta May 1, 2012 Aon Risk Solutions, the global risk management business of Aon plc, appointed John Jassmann to resident managing director in Atlanta....