Liberty Mutual Agency’s regional company Colorado Casualty has appointed Lucas Bills as president and CEO of the commercial lines company that operates in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.

Bills is promoted from the position of regional vice president for the company’s Denver region, where he was responsible for the growth of commercial lines business and maintaining strong partnerships with Colorado Casualty appointed agents, since his joining in 2009.

Prior to this, Bills was assistant vice president of sales and marketing for America First Insurance, which is also a Liberty Mutual Agency Corporation regional company.

Liberty Mutual Agency Corporation executive vice president and chief operating officer Tom Troy said Luke’s leadership will perpetuate the value and service levels that agents and policyholders are accustomed to with Colorado Casualty.

Bills said he will lead the company towards further profitability by deepening commitment to their independent agent partners’ success, disciplined underwriting, and providing the company’s policyholders with superior claims service

The Obama administration has ordered health insurance company, Trustmark,  to rescind its recent request for a health insurance rates increase after deeming it unreasonable.

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Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., a Illinois-based insurance brokerage firm, has acquired Kahl Insurance Services, a Colorado-based retail property/casualty and risk management insurance brokerage firm.

Kahl Insurance Services, established in 2000, offers risk management programs and services to their healthcare-provider clients including hospitals, physician practice groups, outpatient clinics, long-term care facilities, blood banks, and managed care organizations throughout the US.

As part of the acquisition, Steven Kahl and his staff will continue to operate in their current location under the direction of James McFarlane, Western regional manager of Gallagher’s retail property/casualty brokerage operation.

Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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A new report issued by Georgetown University Health Policy Institutes Center for Children and Families revealed that the U.S. health care coverage has increased, specifically for children. In the past three years, children without health insurance has dropped by 1 million. This number also incorporates the increased number of children living in poverty due to the the challenging economy.

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According to the report, one reason that health care increased over the past few years for children is due to state government.

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From credit bottlenecks in Eastern Europe to slower growth in China, delays in tackling the euro zones debt crisis are causing ever-greater economic and financial damage well beyond the borders of the 17-nation bloc.

As politicians dither over how to share the costs of cleaning up the mess and preventing a recurrence, concern is mounting among policy advisers and academics that Europe could be condemned to several years of sluggish growth as excess debts are gradually worked off.

And wrangling over how to pay for decades of debt accumulation is not limited to Europe.

As Francesco Garzarelli of Goldman Sachs has noted, the political stalemate over how to reduce the U.S.

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