H.W. Kaufman Financial Group, headquartered in Detroit/Farmington Hills, Mich., has hired Wayne Bates to serve as president of Atain Insurance Cos. and corporate senior vice president of Kaufman Financial Group. He will be responsible for leading Atain’s overarching growth strategy, …
Rockhill Insurance Group, based in Kansas City, Mo., announced it has realigned its organizational underwriting structure to better serve wholesale brokers. Chief Operating Officer Doug Goode now presides over three main product teams led by the following regional presidents: Mike Towell, regional …
Illinois law has required back-seat passengers to wear seat belts since 2012. An Illinois Department of Transportation survey shows nearly 85 percent of the state’s back-seat passengers are buckling up, an increase of 7 percentage points since 2013. But it’s …
In 2014, 957 fire departments in Texas reported 72,124 fires, with a fire occurring every seven minutes, 163 civilian fire deaths, 780 civilian fire injuries and $662,625,954 in property, according to a report from the State Fire Marshal’s Office. In …
A federal judge has suspended activity in a lawsuit that challenges the ownership of a painting that hangs at a University of Oklahoma art gallery as negotiations continue with a French woman who claims the artwork was stolen from her …
The U.S. property/casualty insurance industry is about to be tested directly by the sharing economy. Two tech entrepreneurs have raised $13 million in initial funding to launch a peer-to-peer online property/casualty insurance company named Lemonade, which they promise will reinvent …
Carjackings are rising quickly in New Orleans, and analysts don’t know why. Carjackings remained fairly steady from 2010 through 2013, but the number rose from 53 in 2013 to 145 so far this year, The New Orleans Advocate reported Sunday. …
Woodruff-Sawyer & Co., an independent brokerage based in San Francisco, announced today that it will be acquiring Capstone Insurance, the property/casualty brokerage division of Newton, Massachusetts-based financial services firm EBS Capstone. The transaction is expected to be completed by the …
Insurance swindler and former international fugitive Martin Frankel has been sentenced to six months in prison for violating the terms of his release. Prosecutors say a federal judge in New Haven, Connecticut, sentenced the 61-year-old convict on Dec. 3. Frankel …
Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc., reeling from an E. coli outbreak that has sickened dozens of customers, closed a restaurant in Boston following complaints of “gastrointestinal symptoms” from scores of Boston College students, including members of the men’s basketball team. “Our …