Claims News Service, Feb. 1, 8:45 a.m. EST -- Mississippi toughened its safety belt law by recently passing a bill that allows law enforcement to stop a driver simply for not wearing a seat belt -- and
Daytona Beach and Tampa-based Brown & Brown recently announced its asset acquisition of Axiom Intermediaries of Stoney Creek, N.C. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. B&B's existing reinsurance
What his firm is calling the nation's first university-accredited course on mold prevention is being taught by South Florida attorney Michael S. Greene, of Akerman Senterfitt at Florida Atlantic
Linda S. Downs, CPCU, AAI, a regional executive vice president of Brown & Brown, has been promoted to the newly formed position of executive vice president for leadership development. In this new
One of my diversions is reading paperback novels--candy for the brain. Over the holidays, I picked up Total Control, by David Baldacci, which first was published almost 10 years ago. The story is predi
The Main Street America Group has launched Personal Lines Quick Quote, an online quoting system that allows independent agent-customers to obtain home-owners and personal auto new-business quotes dire
Citizens Property Insurance Corporation has been an unwieldy organization ever since lawmakers created the residual market in 2002. (See related story in Capitol Line.) At the time, the industry
Guidewire Software, a provider of solutions for property/casualty and workers' compensation insurers, announced Jeffrey Simpson has joined the company as chief executive officer and chairman of the
With the increasing threat of identity fraud, The Hartford Financial Services Group began offering a new identity-recovery coverage program to all new or renewed small-business policyholders last
"At first we were trying to be sensitive regarding Charley, but now we are beyond that point. We need to clean it up. We need to get property owners to get moving forward. They are either going to