Experienced

Equal Health Hires Experienced VP Chandler

January 7th, 2009

Mal Chandler will begin the new year in his new role as Vice President of sales at Equal Health. The McKinney resident, and father of two, brings his experience to one of the fastest-growing healthcare companies in north Texas. Chandler is originally from the Beaumont, TX area. He attended Lamar University where he received a [...]

Avant Capital Partners Closes $2,853,301 Bridge Loan for Dallas TX Multifamily Purchase / Rehab

October 7th, 2009

Avant Capital Partners (AVANT), a leading New York City based commercial mortgage bank that specializes in multifamily financing, closed a bridge loan of $2,853,301 for the acquisition and renovation of a 304-unit apartment complex in Dallas, TX. The loan was based upon 70% loan-to-cost and included the acquisition and renovation costs, as well as an [...]

GlobalBridge Selects Pelorus Advisors As Exclusive Hedge Fund Due Diligence Provider

July 14th, 2009

GlobalBridge,a Minneapolis-based provider of separately managed accounts for trust banks and wealth advisors, announced the selection of Pelorus Advisors as its exclusive provider of hedge fund operational due diligence.
Kelly Coughlin, CEO of GlobalBridge said, “Operational transparency and hedge funds are two terms we seldom see together. GlobalBridge has always insisted on full operations [...]

Staveley Head: Young Drivers Give Insurance Companies a Headache

July 10th, 2009

Drivers under 21 are frequently horrified by the huge premiums quoted by insurance companies when they buy their first car. A 17 year old male driver will pay up to nine times more than a 25 year old to insure a similar car, in the same post code area; and fourteen times more than a [...]

David Zwiener Appointed to PartnerRe’s Board of Directors

July 10th, 2009

PartnerRe Ltd.announced that David Zwiener has been appointed to fill a vacancy on its Board of Directors effective July 7, 2009.
Mr. Zwiener, aged 54, is an experienced insurance industry executive. Between 2000 and 2007 Mr. Zwiener was President and Chief Operating Officer of the property and casualty operations at Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. In [...]

Allied World and JLT Announce New Admitted Lawyers Professional Liability Program in 10 States

July 8th, 2009

Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, Ltd announced through its U.S.-based Darwin subsidiary, a new program with Jardine Lloyd Thompson (JLT) Facilities, Inc. in conjunction with the rollout of Darwin’s nationwide standard market Lawyers Professional Liability (LPL) product. JLT will be underwriting on behalf of Darwin on an admitted basis in New York, New Jersey, Illinois, [...]

Mitchell International Makes Estimating Accuracy Faster, Easier and Ready for the Future

July 2nd, 2009

Mitchell International, Inc., a leading provider of information, workflow and performance management solutions to the Property & Casualty claims and Collision Repair industries, today announced the release of UltraMate? 7, the next major version of one of the industry’s most widely accepted collision estimating solutions for both insurers and collision repairers. In addition to adding [...]

Xenos Extends Its Reach Into Central America, Venezuela and the Caribbean

June 26th, 2009

TSX: announced that it has inked a deal with Truenorth Corporation, one of the principal providers of information technology solutions in the Caribbean, to sell Xenos award-winning technology and business solutions to its extensive customer base.
Truenorth, based in Puerto Rico, has long-standing relationships with some of the world’s leading banks and financial institutions. Projects are [...]

OneBeacon Launches Energy Insurance Business

June 18th, 2009

OneBeacon Insurance Group announced the formation of its newest specialty business – OneBeacon Energy Group, which targets upstream and midstream mid-market energy risks, as well as alternative and renewable energy sources.
Initial coverage offerings include monoline property, monoline general liability, and general liability combined with auto liability. These are available to the exploration and production, [...]

Recovery Audit Contractor Connolly Healthcare Licenses Milliman Care Guidelines(R)

June 4th, 2009

Connolly Healthcare, a permanent Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), has signed a five-year license agreement with Milliman Care Guidelines.
Connolly will use the Care Guidelines content and software to review Medicare claims in 15 states — West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, [...]