FIS Software, a provider of enterprise level end to end insurance policy administration systems, today announced that Binghamton, New York based Columbian Financial Group (CFG) has completed the implementation of FIS’s Agency Management System (AMS), a component of FIS’s flagship ALIS policy administration platform. With AMS, CFG now manages its independent agent workforce using a [...]

KPD, the Oregon based insurance and risk management company, announced they have merged with Portland insurance agency Jones Kendall Sauer. The insurance office will be located at One Lincoln Center near Washington Square.
“We are excited about the merger,” said Jim Ginger, President of KPD Insurance. “Jones Kendall Sauer has been providing professional personal and commercial [...]

Ameriana Bancorp, parent company for Ameriana Bank, announced that Ameriana Insurance Agency, a bank subsidiary, has completed a previously announced purchase of the book of business of the Chapin-Hayworth Insurance Agency Inc. Chapin-Hayworth is a multi-line property and casualty insurance agency located in New Castle.
Chapin-Hayworth Insurance agents Ruth Hayworth and Gail Byers and customer service [...]

The nation’s fourth-largest privately held insurance firm, Keystone Insurers Group (KIG), has purchased an equity interest in East Coast Risk Management, LLC (ECRM), specialists in risk management services. The transaction, recently completed, will provide KIG-franchised locations with an expanded suite of services.
ECRM is headquartered in North Huntington, Pa. The firm will offer – exclusively to [...]

ProspX, Inc., the leader in on-demand sales collaboration and automation solutions for the commercial insurance industry, today announced that INSURICA Insurance Management Network, formerly North America Group, has selected the ProspX platform to further support the launch of its new branding and positioning campaign. By networking core industries and disciplines together and enabling easy collaboration [...]

C.V. Starr & Company, a subsidiary of C. V. Starr & Co., Inc., is pleased to announce that it will begin offering its Resolute PortfolioSM products, designed specifically for Private and Public Companies as well as Not For Profit Organizations, through Starr Indemnity & Liability Company (Starr Indemnity) for business effective June 1, 2009 and [...]

A.M. Best Co. has placed the financial strength rating (FSR) of A- (Excellent) and issuer credit rating (ICR) of “a-” of the Risk Management Association of the Residential Construction Employers Council (RCEC) (Illinois) under review with negative implications.
Following initial receipt of notification of the change in service administrators to Assurance Agency, Ltd. (Assurance) from Walker [...]

Eastern Insurance Holdings, Inc. announced that it has appointed Curt Melville as Chief Operating Officer and Marc Blevens as Director of Sales and Agency Relations. Eastern Life & Health Insurance Company (ELH) is a wholly- owned subsidiary of EIHI.
Melville joined ELH in 2007 as Vice President of Underwriting. In that role, he was responsible [...]

American Equity Investment Life Holding Company announced the implementation of a senior management succession plan as approved by its Board of Directors and David J. Noble, Chairman. Mr. Noble, who founded the company in 1995, has served as its Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, President and Treasurer from inception and led the Company through its [...]

enkins Insurance Group, a Leavitt Group affiliated agency, is pleased to announce the hiring of Scott W. Reynolds as a Vice President. Scott will lead Jenkins’ new Energy Practice with a focus on the Renewable Energy industry.
Reynolds has been in the insurance industry for 28 years with extensive experience in the Energy field. He was [...]