IMA Select has completed its acquisition of Phillip Gira Insurance Agency in Denver, Colo.’s Glendale/Cherry Creek area. Inga Phillip, who founded and served as CEO for Phillip Gira Insurance Agency for the past 35 years, will join IMA Select as …
Specialty insurer Ascot has started an Excess & Surplus Casualty division for the U.S. and appointed Matthew Roy as senior vice president for the new wholesale unit. Writing exclusively on a wholesale basis, the division will focus on middle market …
Cal/OSHA has issued citations to frozen food manufacturer Overhill Farms Inc. and its temporary employment agency Jobsource North America Inc. with over $200,000 in proposed penalties to each employer for failing to protect hundreds of employees from COVID-19 at two …
Dallas-based Next Level Insurance Agency is partnering with ThinkHR on risk management, human resources and employee communication support at no cost for its employee benefits clients. ThinkHR is a technology platform to help businesses manage risk. It includes compliance tools, …
Yet another report in a long line of reports is out urging urgent action from financial regulators, including insurance regulators, the Federal Reserve and the Securities Exchange Commission. The report was commissioned by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and …
Alera Group, a national independent insurance agency based in Deerfield, Illinois, has appointed Tina Hohman as executive vice president and Wealth Management practice leader. In this role, Hohman is responsible for wealth management services offered throughout Alera Group, including financial …
Severe weather events have hit Alberta hard over the spring and summer months. Four events from April to August brought the insured damage total for natural catastrophes in the province to $2 billion, based on surveys from to Catastrophe Indices …
A federal appeals court reinstated a wrongful death lawsuit against two police officers in Ohio’s capital city over the 2016 shooting of a Black man by undercover officers. In a ruling issued Sept. 8, a three-judge panel of the 6th …
Two years after agreeing to a self-regulatory code of practice to tackle disinformation, Facebook, Alphabet’s Google, Twitter and other tech rivals must try harder to be more effective, the European Commission said on Thursday. Fake news related to COVID-19 has …
A number of flood-prone Texas counties have seen a decline in the number of flood insurance policies in place, the state insurance department reported Despite hurricanes, Corpus Christi region has had a decrease in the number of flood insurance policies, …