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Heartland Financial USA, Inc. $6.5 B Assets Hires Insuritas To Launch Private Label Insurance Agencies Across 16 States, 9 Banks And National Mortgage Division Footprint. By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News– Insuritas announced it has been hired by Heartland Financial USA, Inc. to expand their Dubuque-based Insurance Agency…

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News– According to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by VerticalNews journalists, a trademark application has been made for “AIG GROUP FLEX 5 GLOBAL INDEX ANNUITY” by Elizabeth Pearce, representing American International Group. The owner/registrar information for this application is:…

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News– According to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by VerticalNews journalists, a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing by John Hancock Life Insurance Co Usa was posted on September 9, 2015. The SEC file number is 0001145443-15-001099.. A U.S. Securities and Exchange…

Sept. 24– A jury on Tuesday awarded a former Bethel woman injured in a car accident more than a decade ago nearly $17 million, the biggest such civil verdict ever in Western Alaska, according to the plaintiff's attorney. Attorney Myron Angstman, who represented plaintiff Angelina Trailov and her mother Mary Kenick in the case against Allstate Insurance Company…

Sept. 23– A LaGrange man was involved in a hit-and-run crash on C.R. 900 West, north of C.R. 450 North in LaGrange County at 4:42 p.m. Tuesday, according to LaGrange County police. Dennis Miller, LaGrange, was driving a 2005 Ford FRE north on C.R. 900 West and observed a car being driven erratically on the road. Miller stopped his vehicle due to the odd behavior of the other…

Sept. 23– Clark County commissioners have agreed on a plan that raises employee health insurance premiums by 2 percent next year. Commissioners John Detrick, Rick Lohnes and David Herier voted unanimously on Wednesday to support a renewal plan for 2016 that will increase insurance premiums for employees to 10 percent, up from the 8 percent employees pay now.

Researchers from University of Chicago Discuss Findings in Ulcerative Colitis. According to news reporting originating in Chicago, Illinois, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “To assess direct and indirect healthcare resource utilization and costs of privately insured US employees with ulcerative colitis from a societal perspective.

Sept. 24– Patrick McEvoy “Mac” Cromwell, a retired lawyer and former longtime Mercy Medical Center trustee and chairman who was also the first chairman of the Archdiocese of Baltimore's Independent Review Board, died Sept. 16 of congestive heart failure at the Blakehurst retirement community in Towson, where he had lived since 2010.. It was unique, deep and true, “…

Sept. 24– Upgrades to water lines serving rural areas of Calhoun County mean residents of those areas can now buy fire hydrants– and possibly secure a lower homeowners insurance rate. According to Joel Prickett, the authority's maintenance superintendent, 10,000 feet of the upgraded lines run along Peeks Hill Road, northwest of Wellington.

Cigarettes started the fire that displaced the tenants of four apartments Tuesday night in a downtown Dickinson building. The fire originated from a plastic cigarette disposal container, Dickinson Fire Chief Bob Sivak said. The container, sitting a second-floor deck area on the north side of the Jessen Building on the corner of Villard Street and First…

A.M. Best has affirmed the financial strength rating of B+ and the issuer credit rating of“ bbb-” of Waco Fire and Casualty Insurance Company. Concurrently, A.M. Best has withdrawn these ratings upon management’ s request to no longer participate in A. M. Best’ s interactive rating process. Waco is currently a Tennessee domiciled captive insurer, which was formerly an…

Sept. 23– ERIE, Pa.– Marcia A. Dall, who has been chief financial officer of the Erie Indemnity Co. since 2009, is leaving the company Oct. 9 to become executive vice president and CFO of Churchill Downs Inc.. Before joining Erie Indemnity, which provides management services to Erie Insurance, Dall served as CFO of the health-care division at Cigna Corp. Previously, she…

Institute for Social Medicine Reports Findings in Alzheimer Disease. According to news reporting out of Berlin, Germany, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “The main objective of this analysis was to assess the medical and economic differences between patients with and without diagnosed Alzheimer's Disease. Our news journalists obtained a quote from the…

Dr. Feiz notes that this article is put in place to prevent people who simply aim to lose a relatively small amount from resorting to weight loss surgery. While the procedures are extremely effective, Dr. Feiz notes that they are also very significant, and in many cases not reversible. However, as noted both by the article and by Dr. Feiz, many insurers provide an…

To better meet the property risk engineering needs of commercial insurance policyholders, Liberty Mutual has appointed Robert Morelli, National Accounts Engineering Practice Leader. Robert Morelli, National Accounts Engineering Practice Leader, Liberty Mutual Insurance. He also served as engineering practice leader at XL Insurance.

First American Financial Corporation, a leading global provider of title insurance, settlement services and risk solutions for real estate transactions, today released the First American Loan Application Defect Index for August 2015, which estimates the frequency of defects in the information submitted in mortgage loan applications.