Today's Headlines National Warren Buffett's recent birthday was good news for Berkshire Hathaway investors who could celebrate another year of the Oracle of Omaha's ... Insurance broker AmWINS Group Inc. has acquired Special Markets Insurance Consultants, Inc. Smic is headquartered in Stevens Point, ... Insurance claims from Hurricane Isaac have starting coming in, with one estimate saying losses to insurers could total $1.2 billion. AIR ... The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider the constitutionality of a legal tactic that can make it harder for companies to defend ... The commercial general liability market for the U.S. construction industry continues to firm with underwriters seeking rate increases of up ... A National Parks Service (NPS) decision to hike their required insurance liability limits by 1,000 percent has some outfitters and guides,...  East Insurance giant GEICO is going to become a lot more familiar to travelers who visit Virginia's 43 Interstate rest stops, the Virginia ... Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the state will provide up to $640,000 for the construction of a new firehouse in the Adirondack Mountain town of ... Delaware State Police are looking for a man who robbed an insurance company in Wilmington at gunpoint. It happened about 4:30 p.m. last ... New Jersey-based Crum & Forster has appointed Ahmed Yaknour as chief technology officer. In this role, he will be responsible for the ...  Midwest Keith Jandahl, vice president of Insurance Operations for Hasting, Mich.-based property/casualty insurer, Hastings Mutual Insurance Co., is ... The Agent Support Network of America, ASNOA has welcomed its two newest partners, insurance veterans J. Scott Loveland and Roger Collins. ... Illinois has received a $1 million federal grant to improve how it helps consumers who have complaints about insurance industry practices. ...  Southeast Tennessee's high court has ruled that two parents' emotional distress following an automobile accident that took the life of their son is ... A Christians-only health care ministry that's battling in court for the right to continue operating in Kentucky could get a reprieve from ... A 49-year-old Florida man pleaded guilty Friday to making hundreds of threatening calls to employees at the Travelers Insurance Co. Brent ... A Dyer County, Tenn., jury awarded $7.8 million in damages to the family of a child who suffered severe brain damage as a result of an ... South Central Mitt Romney wasted no time after accepting the GOP presidential nomination in heading to Louisiana to see the damage from Hurricane Isaac, ... One year after wildfires raced through Bastrop and impacted 64 other Texas counties, recovery continues with more than $63 million in ... Much of a finger-shaped parish southeast of New Orleans was still covered with floodwater on Sept. 2 and more than 200,000 people across ...  West State Compensation Insurance Fund has changed to its broker distribution model, requiring many brokers to go through one of two ... Montana Attorney General Steve Bullock says 100,000 alcohol breath tests have so far been conducted under the state's year-old drunk ... The New Mexico Court of Appeals has upheld $10 million in punitive damages for the family and estate of an Albuquerque man killed by a ... Photos of Playboy playmates have gone from the cover of the magazine to the center of a lawsuit between two Oregon guitar makers. Houston ... The state Legislature approved a reform bill for California's $17-billion workers' compensation insurance system, one that promises to hike ... The state Assembly approved a series of changes to California's workers' compensation system Friday, voting on a 170-page bill that arose ... As Legislators rushed to amend and pass a bill that would reform California's workers' compensation system before the Friday's midnight ... The Leavitt Group is combining the capabilities of six of their top California agencies along with their Las Vegas, Salt Lake, and Atlanta ...  International El Nino weather conditions, which can bring droughts to parts of Asia and affect crops, have emerged but will likely be weak and short ... The latest report, at 5:00 a.m. AST, located the center of tropical storm Leslie "near latitude 24.7 north - longitude 62.5 west;" i.e. in ... Despite ludicrous claims to the contrary, Western sanctions have hurt Iran's crude oil exports, but it's also not all gloom and doom. In ... Moody's Investors Service has changed its outlook on the 'Aaa' rating of the European Union to negative, warning it might downgrade the ... Aon Benfield, the global reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor of Aon plc, announced that it has launched "ELEMENTS 7, the loss ... Lloyd's has announced two top level executive appointments. Vincent Vandendael will take over as Director - International Markets, and ... Kiln, the international specialist insurance and reinsurance underwriting group, which is a part of Tokio Marine, announced that it has ... Global standards development organization ACORD announced that a coalition of major Russian insurers, including subsidiaries of Allianz and ... Privately-owned global insurance broker Lockton announced that it "plans to strengthen its position in Latin America by entering into a ... Join the Insurance Journal Network Insurance Journal TV  | Few developments have altered the insurance business as much as predictive modeling and more... | | Record high temperatures in the Midwest have farmers facing the worst drought in over 20 year,... |
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