Brian K. Walter, president of the Winchester, Va.-based Walter & Walter Insurance Agency, formed a partnership with a local substance and violence abuse group to discourage youth from bowing to peer pressure.

A Hartford, Conn.-based insurance company awarded about $15.6 million to nonprofits nationwide last year through grants, community sponsorships, the matching gift program and employee volunteering.

Local Red Cross chapters in Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and North Carolina are among the recipients of $1.3 million in money from the Nationwide Insurance Foundation.

Elephant Auto Insurance is starting a new campaign to help raise money to restore the environment and wildlife that have been affected by the Gulf Coast oil disaster.

Healthy Howard, the program helping uninsured residents gain access to health care, has received a vote of confidence to continue for another year amid funding issues.

A bill prohibiting specific uses of funds from the Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund may not have been acted upon this year, but the anger by state legislators is likely to result in the matter being revisited in the next General Assembly session.

Rebuffed by the Commonwealth Court, Pennsylvania insurance regulators will now ask a state superior court to rule whether Kingsway Financial violated state law through its disposition of a failing subsidiary.

The Pennsylvania Insurance Department said it plans to appeal a Commonwealth Court decision to dismiss its challenge against Kingsway Financial Services over how it distributed shares of a troubled subsidiary.

A New Jersey insurance agency is defending its “impeccable reputation” after losing a $194,000 contract with the City of Trenton over contributions to mayoral and city council candidates.

The national organization representing professionals with the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters (CPCU) designation has announced the creation of a special fund to aid the victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti.