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–For yet another year, Lewis& Ellis was hailed by Best’s Review Magazine as being one of the best actuarial firms in the U.S. and Canada across three different categories, showing just how strong and diverse the company’s reach in the field is growing. This year, the A.M. Best study examined a total of 174 actuarial firms that provided data to nearly 1,700 insurers in…

With that in mind, ARAG ®, a leader in legal insurance, names three easy steps someone could take right now as “legal resolutions” to protect what’s important. Create a Will so you can name guardians for your children and to make distributions of your assets, “said Ann Cosimano, ARAG General Counsel. Use ARAG’s Personal Information Organizer to complete this…

WARSAW, Poland& FOSTER CITY, Calif.—- WARTA S.A. Insurance and Reinsurance Company, Poland’ s second largest non-life insurance company, and Guidewire Software, Inc., a leading provider of flexible core systems to non-life insurers, today announced that Warta has successfully finished the deployment project for Guidewire ClaimCenter ® as its new claims…

Jan. 18– ANDERSON– For a week, Cliff McCord tried to make a simple request of the Anderson Police Department but that request fell on deaf ears. He was transported to St. Vincent Anderson Hospital by the fire department but was not included in the initial accident report. Michael Niland with the Indiana Insurance Institute said it’s very important to notify police…

Southern California real estate investment firm Cumberland Holdings pulled the trigger on 2014′ s top deal, buying the 176- unit Heritage Village apartment complex on Willakenzie Road from a pair of Portland investors. “We’ve been looking all over the state for properties,” said Graham Chernoff, Cumberland Holdings’ president and a Portland native.

Haley Barbour and his backers at the Chamber of Commerce embarked on a campaign that ended with a shake-up in the state’s highest court and some of the nation’s most-stringent restrictions on lawsuits. In the process, they essentially hung the label “Jackpot Justice” on civil suits and so tainted the term “trial lawyer” that the Trial Lawyers Association changed…

Gen Re reported senior appointments at General Re Corp., the holding company of the Group. Janice Englesbe, A. Morris Tooker and Dan Lyons were promoted to Senior Vice President. Mo Tooker is the President of General Reinsurance Corp. and runs Gen Re’s global direct Property Casualty reinsurance business.

Stephane will be based out of the Stamford, Connecticut office, reporting to Joe Atamaniuk, Vice President, Marketing and Account Management. According to the company, before joining Gen Re, Stephane worked in the product development and pricing area at Ameriprise Financial in Minneapolis, and prior to that served as a pricing and marketing actuary for…

Higginbotham has hired Steven Stick as senior loss control consultant. Stick comes to Higginbotham from Travelers Insurance in Richardson, Texas, where he was a technology risk control specialist. His 18- year career in loss control started in 1996 when he became the director of risk management for the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma.

June H. Dwyer has joined XL Group’s Distribution& Network team to help accelerate business growth in the Northeastern US and coordinate brokers and clients access to XL Group’s global risks management resources and multi-line insurance coverages. Joining as Northeast Regional Lead, Dwyer is based in New York and reports to Ken Riegler, Head of XL Group’s…

“We continually monitor Capitol Hill to be first to market with changes in tax legislation that will affect our clients’ customers,” said Glenn Reemes, COO of Bloomberg BNA’s software products. “Bloomberg BNA begins preparing the updates as the legislation is being deliberated in Congress so we can deliver the new version to our customers as soon as possible…

ATK is one part of the programs and policies in Kansas meant to make it easier for people with disabilities to find and keep jobs, and more affordable for employers to hire them. Stuart Jones, who recently left the Topeka Resource Center for Independent Living office for the ATK office in Lawrence, said in an interview before his departure that their role is to help…

Last year’s fine was a paltry $95, The Daily Signal reports. And citizens are now required to report their health insurance status to the IRS. H&R Block estimates that up to half of the approximately 6.8 million taxpayers who pocketed ObamaCare subsidies in 2014 might have to pay money back to the government, according to Forbes.

Peter Beilenson thought fighting the intractable rates of drug use and sexually transmitted diseases in Baltimore was tough. “We’re first new commercial insurer in 20 years in Maryland as far as we know,” he said. “They’re coming on as strong as they can,” said Jonathan Weiner, professor of health policy and management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public…

Jan. 16– A 40- year-old Mascoutah woman injured in a vehicle crash involving a school bus last year has filed a lawsuit against Mascoutah School District 19 and the bus driver. Christina Whitson filed the suit late last month in St. Clair County Circuit Court alleging the bus driver John Kistner, 57, of Mascoutah was careless and negligent in the Aug. 22 crash.

OSHA has been developing a worker-focused safety management system for years, the Injury and Illness Prevention Program standard, and it remains on the agency’ s regulatory agenda under the heading“ long-term actions.” The FAA’s adoption of a final rule got a jump-start when Congress passed the the Airline Safety and Federal Aviation Administration…

CHICAGO& NEW YORK—- Ventas, Inc. and American Realty Capital Healthcare Trust, Inc. today announced that Ventas has completed its previously announced acquisition of HCT. Pursuant to the acquisition, HCT shares were converted into the right to receive either 0.1688 shares of Ventas common stock or $11.33 per share in cash, at the election of each HCT shareholder,…