Assurant to Offer Private Flood Insurance in Florida

Assurant, Inc. has launched Assurant Primary Flood Insurance for Florida customers. The new Assurant Primary Flood Insurance offers structural coverage up to $800,000 and up to $250,000 in contents coverage, at competitive rates that include no federal fees or surcharges. …

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Tennessee-Based Reliance Partners Promotes Chastain

Reliance Partners has promoted of Jordan Chastain to the position of senior director of Sales for the transportation division of the company. Chastain is a native of Gainesville, Ga., and a graduate of the University of Mississippi’s Risk Management and …

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North Carolina Medical Board Investigating Prescription Drug Overdoses

The North Carolina Medical Board is investigating 60 doctors and physician assistants with patients who died of overdoses of prescription drugs. Medical board officials tell The Charlotte Observer that two or more patients being treated by each doctor took fatal …

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Allstate Rate Hikes for Georgia Drivers Move Forward, For Now

Allstate can go ahead raise auto insurance rates for Georgia drivers later this month because a state review of the planned increase won’t be done in time to stop the higher rates from taking effect, state regulators said. State Insurance …

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Maryland Commissioner Redmer Elected Chair of NAIC Northeast Zone

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) Northeast Zone has elected Maryland Insurance Commissioner, Al Redmer, Jr., as its new chair. Redmer succeeds Susan L. Donegan, the outgoing commissioner of the Vermont Department of Financial Regulation (DFR), who served as …

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Top Court Rejects Philip Morris Appeal of Oregon Ruling in Smoker’s Death

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Philip Morris USA’s challenge to a $25 million Oregon jury verdict in favor of a man whose wife died of a lung cancer-related brain tumor after smoking the company’s low-tar cigarettes. …

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U.S. Top Court Rejects Exxon’s Appeal of $236M Verdict in N.H. Pollution Case

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected Exxon Mobil Corp’s appeal of a $236 million judgment against the oil company in a case brought by the state of New Hampshire over groundwater contamination linked to a gasoline additive. The justices …

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