A delivery driver was killed Sunday night when a load of construction materials fell on him at a Home Depot store in Florida, police said. News outlets report that a load of drywall struck 47-year-old Cyrenus Leroy Amon around 7:30 …
Rhodes Risk Advisors, an independent insurance firm, has acquired McEver & Tribble, an independent insurance agency also based in Atlanta. Combining the professional teams, risk management capabilities and insurance offerings of Rhodes and McEver & Tribble immediately expands the firm’s …
East Carolina University is restoring two of its women’s teams cut last spring for budget problems compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic, and paying more than $189,000 to avoid a gender discrimination lawsuit. The announcement on Thursday followed word that athletes …
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 Fire Department said in a news release it responded to 920 fires last year, but nobody …
Reliance Partners, a privately-held commercial insurance agency for the transportation and logistics industry, has promoted Missi Shelton to vice president of Customer Service, National Accounts. Shelton will lead Reliance’s National Accounts customer service division, focusing on the agency’s largest transportation …
Atlanta-based INSUREtrust has added Tara Burke as an account manager. Before joining INSUREtrust, Burke worked as a Risk Management Consultant at USI, focusing on small to mid-size businesses. Her tasks included developing new client relationships, reviewing client liability exposures and …
SUNZ Holdings, LLC has announced that funds managed by Blackstone Tactical Opportunities (Blackstone) have acquired a significant stake in the company to help fuel SUNZ’s continued expansion. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. SUNZ Florida-based a provider of workers …
An aspiring rapper who performed under the name “Dank Frank” won’t spend any more time in jail for burning down two rental houses owned by South Carolina’s governor. Frank Wilberding, 23, was sentenced Wednesday to the more than 600 days …
In a stinging rebuke of the Democratic governor’s response to COVID-19, Republican lawmakers on Saturday gave final passage to bills limiting his emergency powers to impose restrictions meant to contain the coronavirus. After months of fuming from the sidelines as …
BevCap Management, LLC (BevCap), an alternative risk program manager with captives domiciled both on and offshore, has formed HatterasRe, LTD, an onshore domiciled captive insurer for BevCap Health’s proprietary Medical Stop Loss program. The new captive will be domiciled in …