Category: insurance

Insurance agents and brokers should prepare for a big agency errors and omissions (E&O) litigation wave to crash their shores in 2021. Agency E&O claims are a lagging indicator, meaning plaintiffs typically only go after agents and brokers after they…

Overland Park, Kansas-based MutualAid eXchange (MAX) has named Dr. Lisa Bage, currently chief operating officer at MAX, as CEO and president effective Feb. 15, 2021. She will succeed current President and CEO David M. Wine, who is retiring following 20…

Poms & Associates has added Ed Fontelieu and Jason Toland to the commercial insurance production team. Fontelieu and Toland will work with Poms & Associates clients to deliver risk management solutions. Fontelieu is based in Fresno, Calif. He joins Poms…

HUB International Limited (Hub), a global insurance broker, has acquired the assets of MPE Employee Benefit Services. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Located in Ridgeland, Miss., MPE Employee Benefit Services is a third-party administrator (TPA) providing administration services…

Authorities say an explosion at an oil tank battery near New Town, North Dakota, on Jan. 18 sent 14 tanks up in flames and caused oil and brine to spill. No injuries were reported. New Town Fire Chief John DeGroot…

Corteva, a spinoff that took over DuPont’s agriculture division, will contest the charges against DuPont stemming from a 2014 poisonous gas leak that killed four workers at a Houston-area plant. A former DuPont employee has also been charged. Four employees…

The Army Corps of Engineers is getting nearly $12.5 million to help build a Louisiana hurricane protection system and could pay $2.1 billion of the expected cost, officials said. Three Republicans in Louisiana’s congressional delegation announced approval of the construction…

Oklahoma schools are advising people to throw away milk products received from districts after a dairy company recalled its chocolate milk because some of it may have been contaminated. Hiland Dairy is recalling 4,800 cases of its one-half pint 1%…