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United America Indemnity Group Goes Live With Duck Creek Technologies’ Policy Administration Solution

July 14th, 2009

Duck Creek Technologies, Inc. a leading provider of software and service solutions for the insurance industry, today announced that United America Indemnity Group, Inc. (”United America”) has implemented Duck Creek’s Policy Administration solution for a number of its Commercial ISO lines products. The PA-based carrier went live within six months with a custom Vacant Property [...]


Extend Health Adds Two Executives to Senior Leadership Team

July 14th, 2009

Extend Health announced that Richard Wheeler, former managing partner of Prescription Benefits, Inc., and Cathy Donahoe, former Director of Human Resources at Omniture, Inc., are joining Extend Health’s executive management team. Mr. Wheeler joins Extend Health as Senior Vice President for Public Sector Accounts. Ms. Donahoe joins as Vice President of Human Resources. Commenting on [...]


State Farm(R) Home Run Derby Offers Big Moments to Eight Local Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) Members

July 14th, 2009

Eight members from St. Louis area Boys & Girls Clubs will experience a once-in-a-lifetime moment as they take to the field with eight of the biggest sluggers in Major League Baseball during the 2009 State Farm Home Run Derby on Monday, July 13 at Busch Stadium for a chance to win $50,000 for a teen [...]


Thomas C. Ramey and Wilhelm Zeller Appointed Independent Directors of AXIS Capital Board

July 14th, 2009

AXIS Capital Holdings Limited announced that the Company’s Board of Directors has appointed Thomas C. Ramey and Wilhelm Zeller to its Board as independent directors. Both will serve as Class II Directors.
Michael Butt, Chairman of AXIS Capital, said: “We are delighted to welcome Thomas C. Ramey and Wilhelm Zeller to AXIS Capital’s Board of Directors. [...]


ProAssurance Earns Ward’s 50 Recognition for a Third Consecutive Year

July 10th, 2009

PRNewswire For the third straight year, ProAssurance Corporation has been recognized by The Ward Group as one of the 50 top performing property/casualty insurance companies in America.
The Ward Group identified the best performing property-casualty insurance companies in America by analyzing the financial performance of more than 3,000 insurance companies during the years 2004 to [...]


AssuranceAmerica Announces Senior Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer

July 10th, 2009

AssuranceAmerica Corporation announced that John M. Mongelli has joined AssuranceAmerica Corporation as its Senior Vice President of Finance. John will also assume the role of Chief Financial Officer on August 16, following the filing of the company’s June 30, 2009 Quarterly Report. John was formerly the Vice President and Corporate Treasurer of ChoicePoint, Inc.
According [...]


Universal Insurance Holdings, Inc. Named One of America’s Fastest-Growing Small Public Companies by Fortune Small Business Magazine

July 9th, 2009

Universal Insurance Holdings, Inc, a vertically integrated insurance holding company, announced that it has been named to the Fortune Small Business magazine 2009 ‘FSB 100′ list of ‘America’s fastest-growing small public companies.’ Universal Insurance Holdings ranked #2 on the list, which can be found at the following Web address: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb100/2009/full_list
According to Fortune Small Business, the [...]


Zurich North America Commercial and Presidio Reinsurance Group Announce Strategic Relationship Strengthening Their Positions in the Specialty Health Marketplace

July 8th, 2009

Zurich North America Commercial’s Accident & Health (A&H) group and Presidio Reinsurance Group announced today their formation of a strategic relationship to provide a broad range of risk-relief programs to the health care market.
As industry leaders with a long-term commitment to the accident and health industry, Zurich and Presidio will leverage their extensive portfolio of [...]


National Federation of Independent Business Names EMPLOYERS(R) Provider of Choice for its 22,000 California Members

July 8th, 2009

The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) has officially named EMPLOYERS America’s small business insurance specialist®, its workers’ compensation insurance provider of choice for its 22,000 California members. NFIB selected EMPLOYERS because of its strong presence in California, and its focus and expertise as a specialty writer of workers’ compensation insurance for small businesses.
As part [...]


Wells Fargo’s Indianapolis, Ind. Office Receives Gold Premier Partner Status From Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield

July 6th, 2009

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 [...]