Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com

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Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com

Chad Hemenway is News Editor for PropertyCasualty360.com and PropertyCasualty360-National Underwriter. He contributes regularly to the website as well as print and digital publications, with oversight of news content. Chad has been a journalist since 2000--first working at weekly and then daily newspapers covering police, fire, courts, schools, and municipal and county government. He has been covering insurance news since 2007. Prior to PC360-NU, Chad worked at A.M. Best Co., covering more than 50 personal and commercial insurers as well as litigation, legislation and regulation. Today Chad's insurance-news reporting includes the E&S/Specialty market, but he continues to write about all lines of P&C insurance. He may be reached at chemenway@sbmedia.com. Find him on Twitter @CTHemenway.

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  State Division of Insurance to Report Losses from Boston Marathon Bombings

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  May 17, 2013

  The Massachusetts Department of Insurance says it has a data call out to the insurance industry in order draft a report on the April 15 bombings at the Boston Marathon.

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  U.S. Questionable Claims Referrals Up, Again

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  May 17, 2013

  U.S. questionable claims increased 16 percent in 2012, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau.

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  Cause of Fire at West Fertilizer Co. Remains Unknown; Scene Investigation Complete

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  May 17, 2013

  After a month-long scene investigation, investigators still do not know what caused the fire that led to a massive explosion at the West Fertilizer Co. in Texas.

• Former AIG Commercial Sales, Marketing Exec Hired as ProspX CEO

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  May 16, 2013

  American International Group Inc. has lost another leading executive, this time to a social business platform to help brokers and carriers manage commercial insurance.

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  DeWitt Stern Designs Super Bowl-Related Cancellation Policy for NY Metro Area

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  May 15, 2013

  Insurance brokerage DeWitt Stern has come up with a way for businesses looking for a big payday from the 2014 Super Bowl to protect expected revenues.

• Progressive April Net Income More Than Doubles

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  May 15, 2013

  Progressive Corp. says April net income skyrocketed 128 percent to $139.5 million.

• N.Y. Senate Tries Again with Auto Fraud-Fighting Bills

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  May 14, 2013

  The New York Senate has passed a number of measures meant to corral auto insurance fraud in the Empire State.

• Eight New Yorkers Indicted on Staged-Accident Scheme Charges

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  May 14, 2013

  Eight New Yorkers have been charged in connection with a scheme to defraud multiple insurance companies of millions of dollars by staging auto accidents.

• Indiana Governor Signs Workers Comp Reform

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  May 14, 2013

  The law imposes a hospital fee schedule with a maximum reimbursement rate of 200 percent of the Medicare rate for treatments and procedures to workers’ compensation claimants.

• Doesn't Matter How West Fertilizer Dangers Were Revealed

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  May 14, 2013

  Will all the points regarding holes in insurance requirements, workplace safety, risk management, oversight, and land-use planning persist against a backdrop of what could be a criminal act?

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  Authorities Launch Criminal Investigation of West Fertilizer Explosion

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  May 10, 2013

  A criminal investigation has been launched into the West, Texas fertilizer plant that exploded last month.

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  RMS CEO: New Risk Management Platform to 'Crush Latency'

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  May 9, 2013

  Risk Management Solutions has unveiled a new, open platform it says will enable insurers to manage models and exposures in minutes rather than months.

• State Farm Seeks New Trial Against Rigsbys in Katrina-Related Whistleblower Case

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  May 8, 2013

  State Farm is seeking a new trial with two sisters, independent adjusters, who accused the insurer of defrauding the federal government following 2005’s Hurricane Katrina.

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  W.R. Berkley Attorney: Limited Coverage Held by West Fertilizer ‘Irresponsible’

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  May 7, 2013

  Paul A. Grinke, an attorney with McCathern in Dallas, predicts his clients and others involved in lawsuits against the West, Texas facility that exploded last month will "be left holding the bag."

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  West Fertilizer Co. Had $1M in Liability Insurance

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  May 6, 2013

  The West Fertilizer Co., site of a massive explosion last month that killed 15 people and damaged or destroyed more than 100 homes, two schools, and multiple businesses, carried $1 million in liability insurance, PC360 has confirmed.

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  Benmosche: AIG Has a 'Deep Bench'; Buffett: 'Full Bore' Into Commercial Insurance

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  May 3, 2013

  AIG CEO Robert H. Benmosche says the company still has plenty of top performers after losing a quartet of executives to Berkshire Hathaway, where CEO Warren Buffett says he'd like to get into commercial insurance "very big time."