| | Today's Headlines | | | | January 12, 2021 | | | | Today's Headline Sponsor: Safety National |
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| | | | | | | Why Does Financial Strength Matter? | | | | "Because we sell a promise. Safety National has the financial ability to pay those claims that could materialize decades from now." - Duane Hercules, President | | | | | | | | Safety National | | |
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| | National | | | | As COVID-19 vaccine distribution rolls out across the country, insurers of the pharmaceutical industry are in a position to share their... | | | | Insurance operations, analytics and process services firm ReSource Pro said it has acquired two strategic advisory and management... | | | | A printing company in Maryland saw the photo on Twitter Wednesday night: an employee roaming the halls of the U.S. Capitol with a company... | | | | Steven Levy, the longtime president and CEO of Munich Re US, plans to retire on April 1. Munich Re executive Marcus Winter will replace... | | | | Pathpoint, a digital excess and surplus lines insurance broker, said it is offering a new capability to independent retail agents: access... | | | | While insurers continue to win four out of five cases in early rounds, in the past month two property owners with policies that contained... | | | | While at least 17 states have passed laws or issued orders that expanded access to workers' compensation benefits for employees who contract... | | | | The announcement that Dr. Henna Karna, formerly global chief data officer at insurer AXA XL, had been retained by Google... | | | | More National News » |
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| | | | | | | Hear from NatGen in a live event | | | | How NatGen used Balto's Real-Time across over 750 agents in their sales and claims teams to positively impact conversions, decrease ramp time, and more. | | | | | | | | Balto | | |
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| | East | | | | A Maine-based smoked salmon producer is defending itself against claims that its products are not sustainably produced. A New York... | | | | IAT Insurance Group, a provider of specialty property/casualty and surety products, has hired Joe Buffalano as vice president of... | | | | Lower-middle-market private equity firm Huron Capital's full-service insurance brokerage platform, High Street Insurance Partners, has... | | | | More East News » |
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| | Midwest | | | | A bipartisan group of lawmakers want to tighten North Dakota's seat belt law to allow police to pull over anyone they see driving... | | | | World Insurance Associates LLC (WIA) has acquired Two Rivers Insurance Company Inc. (TRIC) of Burlington, Iowa. TRIC includes Two Rivers... | | | | Risk Placement Services (RPS), the E&S wholesale broker, managing general agency and program administrator, has appointed Joe Clifford to... | | | | Pinnacle Actuarial Resources Inc. (Pinnacle), a Bloomington, Ill.-based actuarial consulting firm, has named Aaron Hillebrandt a... | | | | More Midwest News » |
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| | Southeast | | | | 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... | | | | Rhodes Risk Advisors, an independent insurance firm, has acquired McEver & Tribble, an independent insurance agency also based in... | | | | Reliance Partners, a privately-held commercial insurance agency for the transportation and logistics industry, has promoted Missi Shelton... | | | | East Carolina University is restoring two of its women's teams cut last spring for budget problems compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic,... | | | | More Southeast News » |
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| | South Central | | | | In its recently published report to the legislature, the windstorm insurer of last resort for properties along the Texas coast has... | | | | A tornado swept through a portion of a city in suburban Houston, displacing about 500 people from a damaged apartment complex, officials... | | | | More South Central News » |
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| | | | | | | Business Income Insurance Demystified | | | | Business income coverage is arguably one of the most important coverages your commercial clients should have. Get THE book on the subject. | | | | | | | | Insurance Journal's Academy of Insurance | | |
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| | West | | | | Crest Insurance Group LLC of Tucson Arizona has acquired Gates Insurance Inc. President Michael Gates and his staff have been serving... | | | | Private equity firm Huron Capital announced today that its insurance brokerage platform, High Street Insurance Partners, has acquired... | | | | A Montana Senate committee is considering a bill that would provide liability protection for businesses and health care providers against... | | | | Licensed insurance agents Robert Farmer, 65, of Camarillo, Calif., and Marion Urcan, 67, of Agoura Hills, Calif., were arraigned this... | | | | More West News » |
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| | International | | | | Indonesian Navy divers retrieved one of the black boxes of the Sriwijaya Air Boeing Co. jet that plunged into the Java Sea shortly after... | | | | The UK Supreme Court will on Friday hand down a judgment in a test case pitting the country's markets regulator against insurers over how... | | | | While the mile-long lines of trucks have dissipated at ports, UK businesses are waking up to less visible forms of friction at the border... | | | | Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., the Rolling Meadows, Ill.-based broker, announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of... | | | | Insurance broker Willis Towers Watson has introduced two new cyber risk assessment services - the Workforce Cyber Culture Assessment... | | | | Hamilton Insurance Group Ltd. announced two senior appointments in its Lloyd's operations, Hamilton Managing Agency Ltd. - Trevor Ormes... | | | | More International News » |
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| | | | | | | Understanding Business Income | | | | Business income coverage is arguably one of the most important coverages your commercial clients should have. Get THE book on the subject. | | | | | | | | Insurance Journal's Academy of Insurance | | |
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| | Insurance Journal Blogs and Columns | | | | Wednesday, January 6, 2021, was a historic day in the US. It could have been historic because the US Congress was voting to certify an... | | | | More Blogs » |
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| | Research and Webinars | | | | | For the Insurance industry, digital transformation has shifted from the 3 - 5 year plan to the 6 month plan. That transformation... | | | | | The hard market is here and shows no signs of slowing down. While this period of the insurance cycle is often known as being the... | | | | | AM Best expects that the Directors and Officers (D&O) segment will soon undergo radical changes based on an examination of... | | | | | It has never been more evident that traditional paradigms no longer serve the insurance industry or its customers. To understand... | | | | More research and webinars » |
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| | Insurance Journal TV | | | | | Norman Ives, a wholesale insurance broker at Worldwide Facilities LLC specializing in custom... | | | | | Recent research shows that more insurers are taking advantage of cloud technology for data... | | | | Watch more videos at InsuranceJournal.tv » |
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