Exceptional Risk Advisors, a Lloyd’s of London coverholder, has acquired assets of International Specialty Insurance Services. Headquartered in Winston-Salem, N.C., International Specialty Insurance designs insurance programs for entrepreneurs, executives, entertainers and athletes, including people in professional sports, entertainment and corporate …
McGriff’s Tommy Ebner, leader of the company’s oil and gas practice, and former president and CEO of McGriff, Seibels & Williams, Inc., will retire after 28 years. The retirement will take place during the first quarter, although exact dates are …
East Carolina University is restoring two of its women’s teams cut last spring for budget problems compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic, and paying more than $189,000 to avoid a gender discrimination lawsuit. The announcement on Thursday followed word that athletes …
Rhodes Risk Advisors, an independent insurance firm, has acquired McEver & Tribble, an independent insurance agency also based in Atlanta. Combining the professional teams, risk management capabilities and insurance offerings of Rhodes and McEver & Tribble immediately expands the firm’s …
Reliance Partners, a privately-held commercial insurance agency for the transportation and logistics industry, has promoted Missi Shelton to vice president of Customer Service, National Accounts. Shelton will lead Reliance’s National Accounts customer service division, focusing on the agency’s largest transportation …
Authorities in Georgia’s oldest city say they saw no deaths from fires in 2020, the first time that’s happened in a decade. The Savannah Fire Department said in a news release it responded to 920 fires last year, but nobody …
In a stinging rebuke of the Democratic governor’s response to COVID-19, Republican lawmakers on Saturday gave final passage to bills limiting his emergency powers to impose restrictions meant to contain the coronavirus. After months of fuming from the sidelines as …
An aspiring rapper who performed under the name “Dank Frank” won’t spend any more time in jail for burning down two rental houses owned by South Carolina’s governor. Frank Wilberding, 23, was sentenced Wednesday to the more than 600 days …
SUNZ Holdings, LLC has announced that funds managed by Blackstone Tactical Opportunities have acquired a significant stake in the company to help fuel SUNZ’s continued expansion. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. SUNZ , a Florida-based a provider of …
Atlanta-based INSUREtrust has added Tara Burke as an account manager. Before joining INSUREtrust, Burke worked as a Risk Management Consultant at USI, focusing on small to mid-size businesses. Her tasks included developing new client relationships, reviewing client liability exposures and …
