AssuredPartners Inc. has acquired RIS Insurance Services of Anacortes, Wash. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The team of 40 RIS Insurance Services employees will remain under the operational leadership of Jim Jermyn and Bill Gillespie. The agency currently …
Brit Global Specialty USA has named Garick Zillgitt as vice president, Primary General Liability, and Justin Magee as vice president, Excess Casualty. Zillgitt and Magee will both be based in California in Walnut Creek and Los Angeles respectively. Zillgitt will …
CopperPoint Insurance Cos. has named Mark Mooney vice president and head of underwriting for California. Mooney will be based at CopperPoint’s PacificComp regional office in Westlake Village, Calif. He will lead the California underwriting team and will work with the …
Erich Bublitz has seen a significant transformation in his clients’ needs in just a year. Increasingly cannabis businesses are coming to him seeking higher limits, and more policy customizations, as their operations develop and become sophisticated and new needs evolve. …
The National Transportation Safety Board says two skydivers made a last-minute decision to board the Hawaii plane that crashed and killed 11 people last month. The NTSB’s preliminary report gave no cause for the crash, which is typical for preliminary …
Walnut Creek, Calif.-based CSAA Insurance Group has named Linda Goldstein executive vice president in customer experience and marketing. Goldstein leads all aspects of marketing, including digital marketing, brand management, marketing analytics, market research, customer-experience management, data strategy and direct marketing. …
PG&E Corp. was ordered by a federal judge overseeing its probation to respond to a Wall Street Journal story claiming the utility knew its power lines could cause wildfires and failed to perform upgrades. PG&E “must provide a fresh, forthright …
Portland, Ore-based Fournier Group has named Tim Conlon vice president of business development. Conlon has more than 25 years of experience in insurance brokerage, niche industry specialization, team leadership and business development. Conlon’s previous positions include Industrial Risk & Insurance …
Investigators are assessing the structural safety of two University of Nevada, Reno, dormitories that usually house 1,300 students, days after explosions injured eight people but none seriously. Nevada University Regents Chairman Jason Geddes (geh-DEEZ’) said that engineers are measuring damage …
The powerful Mojave Desert earthquakes that rocked California ended a years-long lull in major seismic activity and raised new interest in an early warning system being developed for the West Coast. The ShakeAlert system is substantially built in California and …
