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People & Places

David W. Tralka InsurBanc, the financial services provider to independent insurance agents, has named David W. Tralka as its new...

News Briefs

UTAH UTAH SUPREME COURT RULES WCF ASSETS NOT OWNED BY STATE: The Utah Supreme Court has declared that Workers Com-pensation...

AG PROBING FORRESTER DONATIONS:

The New Jersey Attorney General will investigate whether Doug Forrester, the Republican candidate for governor, violated a state law prohibiting...

Business Moves

Brown & Brown Acquires Alliance Insurance Services Kenneth D. Kirk, regional executive vice president of Brown & Brown Inc., and...

REP. SEEKS EMERGENCY AID LAW:

Rep. Peter J. Daley, D-Washington/Fayette, said he would introduce a bill that would provide flood insurance premium subsidies and other...

GEICO AND GOOGLE SETTLE:

Google Inc. has settled the last part of a lawsuit that alleging that its online search engine advertising system illegally...

Weathering the storm

Hurricane Katrina could be called an industry nightmare. Some insurers were still reeling from the effects of the Asian tsunamis...