FCCI Insurance Group, a Sarasota, Fla.-based commercial property and casualty insurance writer, said it has acquired the 20 percent of Brierfield Insurance Company of Jackson, Miss., it did not own

Swett & Crawford has expanded its Specialty Stucco Insurance Strategy (SSIS) with a new product that provides stand-alone completed operations coverage to general contractors who subcontract EIFS work. This carve-out product is available to

Victoria Insurance Co., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Michigan-based USF Insurance Co., has changed its name to Cranbrook Insurance Co. Cranbrook is incorporated in Texas with its headquarters in Farmington Hills, Mich., and is an A.M. Best A-, Class

Julie Dunai Zurich has appointed Julie Dunai head of its environmental unit. Dunai will oversee all aspects of the unit's operations, which deliver

While most IT professionals seem dead set against regulating the Internet in the same fashion as telecommunications and television, economic and ethical factors seem to point to the inevitability of

The entry deadline for the second annual National Underwriter "Agency Technology Achievement Award" program, run in partnership with the ACORD LOMA Insurance Systems Forum, has been extended until

While many in insurance have bought into SOA and reported positive results, not everyone agrees that the architecture has been the panacea that was claimed by many when it first burst onto the scene

Jay Bradford has been appointed as Arkansas insurance commissioner. He will take office Jan. 15, replacing Julie Benafield Bowman. Lenita Blasingame is serving as interim commissioner until Bradford takes office, when she will return to her position