Skyward Specialty Insurance Group Inc. has acquired Aegis Surety and simultaneously sold XPro, which provides solutions for the pest control industry. K2 Insurance Services is both the seller of Aegis Surety and the buyer of XPro. Aegis Surety Senior Vice …
Three well-known television insurance salesmen competing for business are also competing in the National Football League playoffs. Only those totally cut off from television could not have seen at least one of the insurance commercials starring NFL quarterbacks. Green Bay …
California says it’s safe to resume using a batch of Moderna coronavirus vaccine after some people fell ill and a halt to injections was recommended. The decision frees up more than 300,000 doses to counties, cities and hospitals struggling to …
Jose Zepeda, 45, of Fresno, Calif., self-surrendered this week on multiple felony counts of insurance fraud and attempted perjury after filing a workers’ compensation insurance claim and allegedly misleading the insurance carrier regarding his employment status in order to collect …
The submission deadline for the 2021 InsurTech Early-Stage Competition is approaching on January 29, 2021. Global insurtech hub InsurTech NY and the Bermuda Business Development Agency (BDA), Bermuda’s independent economic development public/private partnership, have joined forces for the competition, which …
Chubb announced that Philip Bancroft, executive vice president of Chubb Group and chief financial officer, plans to retire from the company on July 1 after 19 years of service. Peter Enns, an investment banker who was most recently the Global …
Hub International Limited (Hub), a full-service global insurance broker, has acquired the assets of Shields Insurance Agency. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. With locations in Birmingham and Mobile, Ala., Shields Insurance Agency is independently owned and provides services …
United Valley Insurance Services Inc. in Fresno, Calif., has named Donna Peck a marketing consultant. Peck is focused on assisting members on marketing and placing workers’ compensation accounts with the firm’s carriers. Peck previously worked as an underwriting supervisor at …
A new study suggests that prioritizing vaccination of high-risk individuals has only a marginal effect on the number of COVID-19 deaths. To obtain significant improvements, it would be better if a very large fraction of a city or town population …
George Petersen Insurance Agency has promoted Joseph Feierabend, Jack Fess, Sean Parsons, Colby Ritch and Mindy Sehon to principals within the agency. The agency now has 20 principals across eight of the agency’s 10 locations in Northern California. Feierabend, a …