From standup comedy and acting gigs to selling insurance – not the typical career path for the everyday independent agency owner but that is how Jeff Arnold, founder of RightSure Insurance Group, this year’s winner of Insurance Journal’s Overall Best …
SECURA Insurance, based in Neenah, Wis., has promoted five company leaders: Amy DeHart, senior vice president and chief actuary; Dan Ferris, chief legal officer; Tripp Humston, regional vice president–Sales; Tim O’Brien, vice president–controller; and Brett Purcell, regional vice president–Sales. The …
Inigo Ltd., a new London-based insurance group, announced it has completed a capital raise of approximately $800 million from a consortium of global investors comprising (among others) funds controlled by Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), Enstar, J.C. …
British finance minister Rishi Sunak has said there is genuine progress in Brexit talks with the European Union, but that it would be better to walk away from a bad trade deal than tie Britain’s hands in the future. Sunak, …
A judge on Nov. 20 declined to halt a three-week ban on indoor dining in Michigan that is one of the most recent coronavirus restrictions imposed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s administration. The state health department, meanwhile, reported a new daily …
Insurance broker Aon plc announced that Karen O’Donnell has been appointed as a client director within its Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and Infrastructure team, a specialist practice that sits within Aon’s Construction division within the Global Broking Centre. O’Donnell will …
Small business workers’ compensation insurance specialist Employers Holdings Inc. has named Katherine H. Antonello as its president and chief executive officer. She will take over upon the retirement of Douglas D. Dirks on April 1, 2021. Dirks will be retiring …
A new wave of mobile apps that help track exposure to the coronavirus is coming to U.S. states ahead of the holidays as public health officials bet that recently introduced features from Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google will significantly …
Police in Maine said a man died in a workplace accident in which a scissor lift he was using tipped over at a job site. The accident killed James Thompson, 58, of Yarmouth, police said. Thompson was painting the inside …
The Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority has admitted violating the Clean Water Act when workers illegally pumped sludge into the Allegheny River between 2010 and 2017. The authority on Wednesday pleaded guilty to federal charges, including falsifying written reports to …