American E&S Brokers appointed Vivian Plein to broker. She will focus on general liability and property coverages. Plein has been with American E&S for five years and has 14 years of experience in the insurance industry. For more information,

Farmers Insurance Group will no longer write homeowners insurance in North Carolina because it risks paying out about double what it collects in premium in the state.Farmers notified the North Carolina Department of Insurance and the state's

What does it take to keep people from being hurt on the job and get them back to work as fast as possible when injuries inevitably occur--all while treating them with respect and concern, and without

Allstate has agreed to reduce Florida homeowners insurance rates by 5.6 percent, totaling a19.8 percent decrease this year. They will also write 100,000 new policies over the next three years and pay the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR)

"When applied to a cedent submission, ReAlign's data output allows reinsurers to make the proper exposure adjustments when modeling catastrophe risk," says Steve Brewer, vice president of strategic

Alabama Insurance Commissioner Walter Bell--a prominent player on the international regulatory stage who served as president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners last year--announced

The Hanover Insurance Group Inc. has named Gary Y. Kusumi president of the company's personal lines business. Kusumi will be responsible for personal lines operations, including products, pricing, service, underwriting strategies, growth and

Tropics Software Technologies, Inc. (TST), a provider of solutions to the workers' comp insurance industry, unveiled its future plans and long-term market direction for SOA-based software by