Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC (MMA), a subsidiary of insurance broker Marsh Inc., announced it has RJF Agencies Inc., one of the largest independent insurance agencies in the upper Midwest. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1986, …
With more than 50 percent of the country’s population living in coastal counties, there is an urgent and extensive need to convince consumers to adopt a long-term view of catastrophic risk. That is the conclusion of a symposium organized by …
Authorities say a trench collapse in eastern Pennsylvania has killed one construction worker and injured another. Allentown fire officials say the workers were on a bridge when the trench in which they were working collapsed, hitting them with gravel and …
Doug Dukes has been named state vice president of Tennessee for Keystone Insurers Group. Dukes will manage Keystone’s expansion into Tennessee, slated to occur this month. Dukes most recently served as field and marketing representative for The Cincinnati Insurance Companies. …
Florida’s workers’ compensation market remains competitive with more than 250 private insurers writing coverage and only a fraction of business being funneled to the residual market. Also, availability does not appear to be a major concern in the aggregate, although …
New York officials say four insurance groups have agreed to pay a total of about $120 million in excess workers’ compensation surcharges to the state. The attorney general’s office says the companies collected too much in surcharges on premiums from …
Specialty insurance brokers Alliant Insurance Services has acquired New York city-based T&H Group for an undisclosed sum. T&H Group, which operated as Tanenbaum-Harber Co. until changing its name last year, was established in 1860 and primarily targets upper middle market …
Six years ago, Harleysville Group was in need of a big change. The Pennsylvania-based insurer had just come out of the worst performing year in its history. That’s when newly appointed CEO Michael Browne — who declared the company’s performance …
Mylan Laboratories Inc. has agreed to pay $65 million to state, federal authorities as a result of an agreement with Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott over charges that the firm inaccurately reported drug prices to the Texas Medicaid program. Under …
A federal judge in Pittsburgh has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a bar patron who claims he and another customer should have been searched for weapons before they shot one another in February. Forty-two-year-old Thomas Galloway, of Arnold, filed the …
