Starting this December, hundreds of Coloradans will join a national effort in the fight against prostate cancer. The Prostate Cancer Education Council (PCEC) has partnered with Milwaukee, WI-based Assurant Health, a national provider of individual medical, small group and specialty health insurance, to provide Denver’s runners and walkers with an opportunity to raise prostate cancer [...]
As youngsters ready their annual wish lists for Santa, homeowners should be preparing their own special lists like a checklist of what to include in their home insurance policies.
Winter can be especially brutal on homes. Heavy snow and ice can cause damage. Frigid temperatures can freeze pipes. Strong winds can knock down tree branches and [...]
American International Group Inc. is offering retention packages to top executives at its Asian life-insurance unit as it seeks to sell a minority stake in that business, Chief Executive Edward Liddy said Thursday.
The disclosure comes two months after the insurer faced a political backlash over retention packages it offered to executives shortly after the U.S. [...]
An insurance company linked to Allstate says it won’t write new homeowner and dwelling fire policies in North Carolina over concerns about a state-sanctioned program for coastal insurance.
Encompass Insurance told independent agents who offer the product last week that additional policies wouldn’t be prudent given the growth of the so-called Beach Plan.
The Beach Plan insures [...]
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) has bestowed its first President’s Award for Distinguished NAIC Member Leadership to North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Jim Long.
Long who is retiring after 24 years as insurance commissioner was presented with the award by NAIC President and Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger. The award honors an NAIC member who [...]
The school district has left MUSIC once before, about 10 years ago, and quickly decided that a return to MUSIC as a property insurance provider was desirable.
“If we pull that plug (again), it’s permanent,” said Jones, explaining that MUSIC would be unlikely to take the district back again.
He continued, saying that other companies might save [...]
While general insurance majors will have to cough up a sizeable amount of money to settle the damage incurred by the Taj and Oberoi hotels, the recent Terror attacks have spawned a flood of enquiries about insurance offerings.
With existing policy holders anxious to find out the details of the kind of cover they hold and [...]
Rarely have lawmakers in Lansing done anything right when they’ve been rushed. Recall last year’s much-maligned and ultimately ill-fated service tax, which gave way to the equally despised surcharge on the Michigan Business Tax. Both measures were the result of legislators scurrying to balance the budget while giving little thought to the consequences of their [...]
John Murray, president and chief executive of Rose & Kiernan Inc. announced Tammy Holt as a personal lines client manger in the insurance company’s Kingston office.
Holt previously worked at the John J. Liggan Insurance Agency in Rosendale.
Holt holds her New York state Insurance Brokers License in property, casualty and personal lines. She is working toward [...]
Dr. Daniele Zullino keeps glass bottles full of white powder in a safe in a locked room of his office.
Patients show up each day to receive their treatment in small doses handed through a small window.
Then they gather around a table to shoot up, part of a pioneering Swiss program to curb drug abuse by [...]
