Santo Insurance & Financial Services, an independent insurance agency in Salem, New Hampshire, hired Michael Kimball as an insurance agent. In his new position, Kimball will design customized insurance packages for both personal and commercial lines. He will work closely …
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A third of people who shopped for auto insurance online actually changed their insurance carrier, an insurance industry survey found. At the same time, the online opinion survey by the Insurance Research Council (IRC) found that 86 percent of insured …
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New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance Commissioner Ken Kobylowski announced the approval of a new line of authority for HCSG Insurance Corp., a captive insurer formed last year by Healthcare Services Group Inc. (HCSG) of Bensalem, Pennsylvania. Under the …
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Though Tropical Storm Bill has been downgraded to a tropical depression, as it moves across Texas its heavy rains are flooding streets and have left at least one person dead in the state where severe weather killed about 30 people in late May. There …
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Google Inc. received a patent on the use of drones to provide emergency medical service. Patent 9,051,043, issued June 9, covers the use of unmanned aerial vehicles to provide emergency medical support. Google said the vehicles would be configured to …
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During the trial, David Boies was his usual mildly rumpled and mostly unpretentious self, peering over his reading glasses, padding around in his hallmark black suede slipper-shoes and smiling his way to victory in a case that put the U.S. …
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A natural gas extraction company controlled by energy giant Exxon Mobil sought to prove on June 10 that it is not to blame for a recent rash of small earthquakes in North Texas, telling a powerful state agency that it …
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Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. will pay A$500 million ($388 million) for a stake in Insurance Australia Group Ltd. in a deal that will accelerate sales of commercial coverage. The agreement will give Berkshire 20 percent of IAG’s insurance premium payments and make it …
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Last month, administrators at the Boston Public Library discovered that a $600,000 engraving by Dürer and a $30,000 etching by Rembrandt had gone missing. It set off a media firestorm, the director of the museum resigned, and then … a …
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There’s relief ahead for U.S. poultry farmers suffering through the worst ever domestic outbreak of bird flu. As the weather warms, there’s likely to be fewer instances of the disease, which has already left 47 million dead birds, state officials …
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