Posts by Hometown Insurance

Coterie Insurance, headquartered in Appleton, Wisconsin, named Mike Albert and Allan Egbert to the company’s senior leadership team as chief technology officer and chief platform officer, respectively. Albert and Egbert, the co-founders of Ask Kodiak, have advised Coterie since early …

Two people working on powerlines near the Mississippi River died Thursday when their helicopter hit the lines, crashed into a barge and sparked a fire that belched plumes of black smoke, officials said. The helicopter crew was near East Alton, …

Louisiana authorities have agreed to pay $9 million to a man who was partially paralyzed from the waist down after a trooper shot him in the back during a 2018 traffic stop in Baton Rouge and then falsely reported it …

Strong storms before dawn Saturday in eastern Nebraska killed one person and seriously injured another in a state park and displaced hundreds of inmates after two prison housing units were damaged, officials said, even as other Midwest states also braced …

A Texas agency overseeing 13 million acres of state land is warning that toxic waste fluid from shale drilling threatens to contaminate oil wells in North America’s most prolific crude basin. The General Land Office of Texas, which was founded …

Fires, storms and the potential for near-record high temperatures across the western US are in the offing for the coming week. The Gifford Fire, about 125 miles (201 kilometers) northwest of Los Angeles, had burned 114,621 acres and was 21% …

Global specialist insurer, Hiscox, has announced the appointment of Harriet Turner to its London Market business to lead its new sexual molestation liability (SML) cover – expanding its existing range of casualty products. Hiscox’s launch of SML cover is designed …

This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Lancashire Holdings and CFC Underwriting. A summary of these new hires follows here. Lancashire Announces Leadership Promotions, Including CEOs of Insurance Units Lancashire Syndicates Ltd. and Lancashire Insurance Company Ltd., the …

CANTON, Miss. (AP) — Jeff Goodwin, director of the Mississippi state auditor’s compliance division, was congenial while describing to Canton officials how the office has taken $352,000 of the city’s revenue to pay for past-due audits – the first time …

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Police in West Virginia shot and killed a knife-wielding man in a hospital emergency room after he attacked an employee early Friday, authorities said. The shooting occurred around 1:45 a.m. at Charleston Area Medical Center’s General …