The Aon All Bond and BB-rated Bond Indices posted gains of 6.84 percent and 5.34 percent, respectively, while the U.S. Hurricane and U.S. Earthquake Bond Indices returned 7.73 percent and 4.85 percent, respectively. The Aon All Bond Index outperformed relative to the S&P 500 Index and most comparable fixed income benchmarks, except the 3-5 year BB U.S. High Yield…
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NEW YORK, Sept. 8, 2016/ PRNewswire-USNewswire/– Peak hurricane season runs from now through October, making this a crucial time to review business insurance coverage, according to the Insurance Information Institute. Forty percent of businesses do not reopen after a disaster and another 25 percent fail within one year, according to the Federal Emergency…
–AMERCO, parent of U-Haul International, Inc., North America’s largest “do-it-yourself” moving and self-storage company will participate in CL King’s 14th Annual Best Ideas Conference on Tuesday, September 13, 2016 at the Omni Berkshire Place Hotel in New York City. The AMERCO presentation begins at 12:30 p.m. ET and is followed by a Q&A session.
In a first-of-its-kind, client-led development, International SOS, the world’s leading medical and travel security risk services company, created the Enterprise Health Security Center. The Enterprise Health Security Center is a web-based tool that provides managers access to the latest medical content and pandemic incident plans to effectively…
–Los Angeles County Superior Court ruled in favor of Allstate Insurance Company and the State of California in a lawsuit topping more than $2.3 million that ends the illegal ownership, kickbacks and fraudulent operation of two medical clinics in Los Angeles. In its lawsuit, Allstate alleged chiropractor Byum Suk Kim violated the state’s Insurance Frauds…
–Higginbotham and Davis Insurance Agency announced today the merger of their operations. Higginbotham is headquarted in Fort Worth and ranked by revenue as the largest Texas- based independent insurance broker, and Davis Insurance is an independent broker with a workforce of 26 in its Lufkin home office and Amarillo branch. The merger with Davis Insurance…
At the ceremony, which was held at Palmetto Health Children’s Hospital in Columbia, South Carolina, attendees also heard the story of DJ Fisher, a 17- year-old patient at Palmetto Health Children’s Hospital, who provides invaluable peer support to other children also undergoing cancer treatment. She receives this award posthumously; her memory lives on with…
Mr. Fanti will continue to report to John Burkhart, Senior Vice President and Head of Management Liability& Professional Lines. In his new capacity, Mr. Fanti will have the P&L responsibility for the Public Company segment and will set the underwriting strategy for the Directors& Officers product line. Before joining QBE in 2013, Mr. Fanti spent 11 years at Chubb,…
–Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company announced today the election of Karen Bechtel to its Board of Directors. “I am extremely pleased to welcome Karen Bechtel to MassMutual’s Board of Directors. “Importantly, as part of MassMutual’s unwavering commitment to best-in-class corporate governance, we are focused on ensuring that our board reflects…
LONDON and NEW YORK, Sept. 7, 2016/ PRNewswire/– To accommodate increasing property values around the world and more complex risks, XL Catlin extended its global property insurance capacity to USD 400 million, a more than 25 percent increase from its previous USD 300 million capacity. According to Doug Howat, XL Catlin’s Chief Executive, Energy, Property,&…
ROK Founding Partner, philanthropist and consumer products mogul, John Paul DeJoria, and filmmaker James Cameron, an early investor in H20, are both excited by the launch of the ROKiT Series. The joint venture will leverage the service which ROK Mobile offers their subscribers including $100,000 in accidental death coverage, $20,000 in burial insurance,…
–Symbiont, the market-leading smart contracts platform for institutional uses of blockchain technology, will host a live WebEx demonstration of its platform for insurance industry participants on September 20, 2016 at 2 p.m. Only insurance industry executives, investors, brokers or consultants will be approved to participate. It provided a version of its…
–Cigna today kicked off a new advertising campaign using an ensemble of familiar TV doctors to promote annual check-ups as a way to improve an individual’s health and encourage a dialogue with his or her health care provider. Actors Alan Alda, Patrick Dempsey, Lisa Edelstein, Donald Faison and Noah Wyle donned scrubs and white coats to take on a new role with Cigna,…
Hosted by GOBankingRates in partnership with GoFreeCredit, the second quadrennial Summer Money Games brought together more than 50 personal finance and success experts to share their best tips and advice across five categories– Saving Money, Retirement Planning, Wealth Building, Money Milestones and Financial Advice. Gold: Clark Howard, for his piece on…
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6, 2016/ PRNewswire-USNewswire/– The U.S. Census Bureau will hold an online news conference to announce the findings from three reports: Income and Poverty in the United States: 2015, Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2015, and The Supplemental Poverty Measure: 2015. The supplemental poverty measure report contains both national…
–The majority of small business owners do not offer a 401 plan and 42% of those not offering it don’t see the value in it, according to the August 2016 SurePayroll Small Business Scorecard ®. “There needs to be more education for small business owners about the tax benefits and the long-term growth potential of investing in a 401 plan,” said SurePayroll General…
Aflac’s Duckprints award recipients— WSB’s Atlanta Morning News host Scott Slade, who started the WSB Radio Care-a-Thon for the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta in 2000 and raised millions of dollars to help eradicate childhood cancer, and Dr. Dorothy Jordan, an advanced practice nurse and founder of Camp Sunshine, a…
–Summit Healthcare REIT, Inc. announced today that it has acquired an interest in two skilled nursing facilities located in the communities of Millsboro and Smyrna, Delaware, for a total purchase price of $54.1 million on September 2, 2016. The acquisition was made through a joint venture between Summit Healthcare Operating Partnership, LP, which is wholly…
–The number of insured dogs and cats in the United States is currently over 1.2 million, however, that makes up only 0.75 percent of the total number of dogs and cats nationwide. With that startling figure in mind, and as part of National Pet Health Insurance month in September, Pets Best Insurance Services, LLC, a leading U.S. pet health insurance agency founded in…
