Travelers is now offering control of well coverage on an admitted basis to upstream oil and gas clients. This coverage will be immediately available on an admitted basis in 25 states, and is expected to be available in most other …
Work-related deaths in West Virginia have fallen to their lowest level since 2002. Preliminary figures released this week by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics show 41 workers suffered fatal on-the-job injuries in 2009, down from 53 in 2008. Forty …
A.M. Best Co. has upgraded the financial strength rating (FSR) to ‘A+’ (Superior) from ‘A’ (Excellent) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) to “aa-” from “a+” of the U.S. subsidiaries of Zurich Insurance Company Limited (ZIC), including the lead company of …
Hunt Valley, Md.-based All Risks Ltd. has named Abby Daugherty an underwriting manager in the Phoenix office. Daugherty has more than a decade of commercial excess and surplus, small account brokerage and contract binding experience. She will expand the Phoenix, …
Claimants to BP Plc’s $20 billion oil spill fund may soon be required to transfer to the company their right to sue other defendants, a move that could help BP’s efforts to collect billions of dollars from its business partners. …
Not only is Earth’s surface warming, but the troposphere — the lowest level of the atmosphere, where weather occurs — is heating up too, U.S. and British meteorologists reported Monday. In a review of four decades of data on troposphere …
Half of all graduating medical residents or fellows trained in Illinois leave the state to practice medicine elsewhere, in large part due to the medical liability environment in Illinois, according to a new study from Northwestern University Feinberg School of …
Illinois Department of Insurance Director of Insurance Michael T. McRaith has issued the following disciplinary orders for September and October 2010: Shango D. Johnson, Chicago – Insurance producer license suspended effective Sept. 8, 2010. Johnson was licensed to sell life, …
John Mina has been appointed managing partner at Willis of Maryland, Inc. Mina will be responsible for business development for Willis’ Washington, D.C.-based insurance brokerage operations. He will be based in Potomac, Md. Willis of Maryland has more than 100 …
A Long Island woman claims her one night at the Waldorf Astoria hotel has cost her $13,000 because her room was infested with bedbugs that came home with her. Susanne Igneri filed a lawsuit against the upscale Manhattan hotel last …
