Archive for March 2016

Real estate specialist Mark Dobbs has joined Alliant Insurance Services as vice president within the company’s real estate group. Los Angeles, Calif.-based Dobbs will focus on organizations with portfolios spanning various product types. Dobbs’ background includes investment banking, real estate … Read More Read more here:: Insurance Journal       

Cross Insurance, an insurance agency headquartered in Bangor, Maine, has hired Abram Treadwell as account executive/Personal Lines and Sean Doyle as account executive/Commercial Lines. Both will be based in Cross Insurance’s Lewiston, Maine, office. Treadwell has more than a decade … Read More Read more here:: Insurance Journal       

A remote and active volcano on Alaska’s Aleutian Islands erupted, sending ash 20,000 feet into the air, scientists said. The U.S. Geological Survey says the Pavlof Volcano, which is about 600 miles southwest of Anchorage and roughly 40 miles from … Read More Read more here:: Insurance Journal       

Take1 Insurance announced that it is now a cover holder with Lloyd’s of London to provide excess liability coverage capacity of up to an additional $5 million in limits. Minimum rates start at $750 per each million dollars of coverage. … Read More Read more here:: Insurance Journal       

There could be 7 million small drones in the sky by 2020, according to U.S. aviation officials, who believe that as many as 2.7 million of them will be used for commercial purposes. These same officials predict that small unmanned … Read More Read more here:: Insurance Journal       

Arthur J. Gallagher Risk Management Services Inc, the retail property/casualty brokerage operation of Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., announced the acquisition of Continuum Solutions Ltd. in New York City. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Continuum Solutions provides business … Read More Read more here:: Insurance Journal       

Jared Schumacher is among the hundreds of thousands of New Jerseyans who routinely use electronic devices to text, listen to music or do other tasks as they walk outdoors. But if a “distracted walking” measure recently proposed by a state … Read More Read more here:: Insurance Journal       

A Utah woman who is part of a polygamous group alleges that makers of a reality TV show barged into her house without permission and pressured her daughter into being in a series about people leaving polygamy. Susan Nelson alleges … Read More Read more here:: Insurance Journal       

More people are leaving Wyoming than are coming to the state in the wake of thousands of jobs being lost in the fossil fuels extraction industry, and it’s a trend that an economist doesn’t see reversing until oil and gas … Read More Read more here:: Insurance Journal