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 [...]

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 products [...]

AQS, Inc., a provider of policy administration systems for property/casualty insurance, and FirstBest® Systems, Inc., developer of advanced Underwriting Management Systems(TM) (UMS) that enable property and casualty (P&C) insurance carriers to profit from better underwriting, have announced a strategic alliance to deliver AQS’ comprehensive rating and policy administration system with FirstBest’s agent portal and underwriting [...]

U.S. National Forests damaged by wildfires, insects and disease will be getting some much needed help thanks to Progressive car insurance customers who have chosen to receive their policy documents electronically. Not only are those customers saving trees by saving paper, they’re also getting trees planted in their honor. Progressive began offering to plant trees [...]

Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, Ltd announced the recent opening of two new Allied World U.S. offices in California, located in Costa Mesa and Los Angeles. These offices were opened to expand distribution of Allied World’s specialty products throughout the Western region of the United States, and to affirm Allied World’s ongoing commitment to [...]

GUARD Insurance Group is now accepting businessowner’s policy (BOP) submissions in Pennsylvania and New Jersey as well as commercial auto in PA. Over the next several years, the company plans to introduce these new products in additional states as a natural complement to GUARD’s traditional specialty workers’ compensation insurance. Although the company plans to [...]

A.M. Best Co. has released its 2009 Annual Publications & Services Catalog. In addition to the company’s insurance industry-focused products, the catalog also includes an introduction to A.M. Best’s credit rating services for insurance companies, banks and health care systems, and gives an overview of A.M. Best-hosted programs and events.
The catalog details the many product [...]

HCC Insurance Holdings, Inc. announced that it has acquired VMGU Insurance Agency, a leading underwriter of the lumber, building materials, forest products and woodworking industries. The acquisition, along with recently announced transactions in the Public Risk insurance sector, will further extend HCC’s reach in the specialty commercial package insurance market.
Based in Waltham, Massachusetts, VMGU [...]

Hudson Insurance Group (“Hudson”), the U.S. Insurance division of Odyssey Re Holdings Corp. (“OdysseyRe”), announced that its Environmental Products unit will commence operations on December 1, 2008.
Hudson Environmental Products is led by Steve Porcelli, Senior Vice President and managed by Joe Valenza, Vice President. The new unit is headquartered in New York City.
As announced on [...]

40,000 local businesses and 79 working Chambers of Commerce throughout Connecticut will soon be able to offer their employees and members an extensive portfolio of life and disability products, thanks to a new program developed by Anthem Life Insurance Company (Anthem Life) and its affiliate Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Connecticut.
“Anthem Life and [...]