12 01, 2021

High Street Acquires Partners Premier in Oregon

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Private equity firm Huron Capital announced today that its insurance brokerage platform, High Street Insurance Partners, has acquired Premier Northwest Insurance in Oregon City, Ore. The firm has also acquired Day, Deadrick & Marshall Inc. in Beltsville, Md. Premier NW …

12 01, 2021

Crest Insurance Group Acquires Gates in Arizona

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Crest Insurance Group LLC of Tucson Arizona has acquired Gates Insurance Inc. President Michael Gates and his staff have been serving clients out of their home office in Mesa, Ariz., since 2009. Gates is a full-service property/casualty firm specializing in …

12 01, 2021

World Insurance Associates Acquires Two Rivers Insurance in Iowa

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World Insurance Associates LLC (WIA) has acquired Two Rivers Insurance Company Inc. (TRIC) of Burlington, Iowa. TRIC includes Two Rivers Insurance Services (TRIS) and Employee Benefits Systems (EBS). Terms of the Dec. 31, 2020, transaction were not disclosed. TRIC will …

12 01, 2021

Hillebrandt Named Principal at Illinois’ Pinnacle Actuarial Resources

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Pinnacle Actuarial Resources Inc. (Pinnacle), a Bloomington, Ill.-based actuarial consulting firm, has named Aaron Hillebrandt a principal and consulting actuary. Hillebrandt is one of the firm’s leaders in the captive industry and alternative markets. He serves as appointed actuary for …

12 01, 2021

Clifford to Lead Risk Placement Services’ Workers’ Comp Programs in Michigan

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Risk Placement Services (RPS), the E&S wholesale broker, managing general agency and program administrator, has appointed Joe Clifford to lead its self-insured workers’ compensation programs in Michigan within its RPS Signature Programs division. Clifford succeeds Tim Hanna, who has retired …

12 01, 2021

Legislation Aims to Strengthen North Dakota Seat Belt Law

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A bipartisan group of lawmakers want to tighten North Dakota’s seat belt law to allow police to pull over anyone they see driving unbuckled — or any of their passengers. It’s the latest and the most stringent in a decades-old …

12 01, 2021

Zero Fire Deaths in 2020 in Savannah, Georgia for First Time in a Decade

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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 …

12 01, 2021

Reliance Partners of Tennessee Promotes Shelton

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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 …

11 01, 2021

The Gig Economy’s Auto Insurance Market and Surplus Lines

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Automobile insurance looks very different today than it did a generation ago. The means by which people (and goods) travel via motor vehicles continue to expand and evolve, as do businesses and their automobile insurance needs, especially in the gig …

11 01, 2021

Voting System Firm Files $1.3B Defamation Lawsuit Against Pro-Trump Lawyer Powell

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Dominion Voting Systems filed a defamation lawsuit against lawyer Sidney Powell on Friday, seeking at least $1.3 billion for Powell’s “wild accusations” that the company rigged the presidential election for Joe Biden. “Dominion brings this action to set the record …