A.M. Best Co. has commented that the financial strength rating of ‘A ‘(Excellent) and issuer credit ratings of “a” of Bermuda-based IPCRe Limited and IPCRe Europe Limited (Dublin, Ireland), both reinsurance subsidiaries of IPC Holdings Ltd. “remain under review with …
The New Jersey Senate has confirmed Douglas A. Wheeler as director of the Division of Insurance.. Wheeler had been nominated by Governor Jon Corzine in May. He will replace longtime division Director Donald Bryan, who retires today. Wheeler, an attorney …
The South Dakota Supreme Court has ruled that if an employer provides an underage employee with unfettered, unsupervised access to alcoholic beverages, that employer is liable for any off-site damage that occurs as a result. The Court made that ruling …
San Diego-based Mitchell International Inc., a provider of information, workflow and performance management solutions to the property and casualty claims and collision repair industries, announced that its Senior Vice President of Human Resources Jack Farnan, was awarded with a Lifetime …
A Missouri court has temporarily blocked the firing of three administrative law judges who decide workers’ compensation cases. The judges were to be laid off by the July 1 start of the new fiscal year. But Cole County Circuit Judge …
Donald Forsythe and Fred Wilder, founders of Wilder-Forsythe Inc. insurance agency, picked an awful location to sell insurance. The small office building they bought in 1974 in the far-northern New York city of Ogdensburg sits on land, formerly a gas …
Hannaford Supermarkets is warning its customers in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont to check their freezers for recalled beef. Spokesman Mike Norton says the supermarket chain learned on Sunday that its stores may have received beef that’s …
The Illinois Department of Insurance reported that a licensed insurance agent, Larry Chouinard of Kankakee, has been arrested for allegedly defrauding 13 businesses of nearly $370,000. Bradley, Ill., police arrested Chouinard after the Illinois Attorney General unsealed a 19-count indictment …
The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) has recognized Anthony Forest Products of Atlanta, Eastman Forge Inc. of Beaumont, James Avery Craftsman Inc. of Kerrville and Power Resources Ltd. of Big Spring with the Peer Review Safety …
Carl Warren & Company, a liability claims management enterprise headquartered in Orange County, Calif., has hired Larry Warshaw as a client relationship manager and coverage analyst in Overland Park, Kan. Warshaw has nearly 20 years’ experience in the insurance industry. …