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Verisk Develops New Tool to Estimate Roof Age for Residential Properties
JERSEY CITY, N.J.—Verisk Insurance Solutions, a leading source of information about property/casualty insurance risk, announces Verisk’s Roof Age solution, which is designed to help U.S. residential property insurers more accurately determine the age of a roof. The new solution was built in conjunction with BuildFax, a leading provider of historical building permit data. Verisk Insurance Solutions […]
Gov. Cuomo Nominates Maria Vullo as Superintendent of NYDFS
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today nominated Maria T. Vullo to serve as the Superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services. Ms. Vullo is an experienced senior litigator and manager, with more than 25 years of practice in business litigation and investigations. She is of counsel at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison […]
Agency Performance Partners Celebrates One-Year Anniversary : Consulting firm shares insight gathered through proprietary agency assessments
EAST GREENWICH, RI—This month marks the one-year anniversary of Agency Performance Partners, an agency success consultancy led by Kelly Donahue-Piro. “During our first year in business, we’ve been fortunate to work with some of the most forwardthinking independent agencies in the country,” Donahue-Piro says. “It’s been exciting to see these businesses start to transform their […]
PRI Cites Mercy Medical Center, Rockville Centre, for Risk Management and Patient Safety “Best Practices” Award
Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center Earns Honorable Mention “We are proponents of creative, aggressive approaches to achieving excellence in patient care. The Patient Safety Award gives us the opportunity to publicly acknowledge some of the best practices taking place in the field and gives others an opportunity to learn more by facilitating the exchange of information. […]