Crawford Canada’s Bill Johnstone has been named senior vice president of Crawford & Company’s Global Technical Services (GTS) for the Americas, a newly created position designed to more effectively coordinate and grow this market-leading service, the Company announced
GTS is a major differentiator for Crawford worldwide in the high-end, complex loss adjusting market. With our strong [...]

Synovis Life Technologies, Inc. has entered into a definitive purchase agreement through a wholly owned subsidiary to acquire substantially all the assets of Pegasus Biologics, Inc., a privately held medical device company based in Irvine, Calif., focused on the development of advanced biological solutions for soft tissue repair. The purchase price is $12.1 million in [...]

VantisLife Insurance Company announced that Astoria Federal Savings, headquartered in Lake Success, NY, will now offer insurance products via the company’s award-winning online quote and submit system. The offering will be made through VantisLife’s New York Company, VantisLife Insurance Company of New York.
Astoria Federal has been serving the New York market with quality financial [...]

Wells Fargo Insurance Services is proud to announce that its Indianapolis, Ind. office received the distinguished Gold Premier Partner status from Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
We’re truly honored to receive this award from Anthem,” said Pam Kirk, managing executive of benefits from the Indianapolis, Ind. office. “We want to personally thank Anthem for their [...]

Heartland Financial USA, Inc. based in Dubuque, announced that is has acquired all deposits of The Elizabeth State Bank in Elizabeth, Ill. through its subsidiary Galena State Bank based in Galena, Ill. in a loss-share transaction facilitated by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
“Customers can be assured that their deposits are safe and remain [...]

LGPI, the pension institution for local governments in Finland, has signed an agreement with Ortec Finance to license its Asset Liability solution for pension plans Ortec Finance PALM. The ALM solution enables LGPI to formulate ALM strategies based on Ortec Finance state of the art scenario generation, asset and liability methodologies. The selection of was [...]

Boston-based Liberty Mutual Group today announced that it would continue its sponsorship of the Boston Pops Fourth of July Concert on the Esplanade through 2012, which coincides with the company’s 100th anniversary. The multi-year sponsorship agreement with Boston 4 Productions, the company that produces the event, totals approximately $7 million.
Headquartered in Boston since its inception [...]

Transport Secretary Andrew Adonis has announced a Pounds Sterling 20 million DfT scheme to provide public sector organisations with electric powered vans in order to demonstrate the potential of new technologies for decarbonising road transport. Up to 150 vans will be distributed later this year between six local authority groups across the country and six [...]

RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. announced the successful completion of the “Safe Homes for All” Risk Mitigation Leadership Forum, held in Washington, D.C. on June 24th. The Forum’s principal sponsors were RenaissanceRe’s affiliate, WeatherPredict Consulting Inc. and the RenaissanceRe Risk Sciences Foundation, together with leading non-profit organizations Federal Alliance for Safe Homes – FLASH®, the Institute for [...]

June 29th, CommuniCare Health Centers (CCHC) received a $1.447 million capital improvement grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to fund construction of the organization’s new community health center in Kyle, Texas.
“This grant will make it possible for us to build a new health center and expand services to help the medically [...]