Insurance holding company Amwest Insurance Group Inc. said it will reduce its work force by 26% and close an undisclosed number of branches, scaling back operations as it negotiates with creditors.

When a Nebraska judge one Friday last December declared that all bail bonds from Amwest Insurance Group Inc. would be insolvent in two days, 100,000 criminal defendants nationwide suddenly faced the ...

Mikkilineni v. Amwest Surety Insurance Co., PICS Case No. 07-0294 (Pa. Commw. Feb. 26, 2007) Simpson, J. (18 pages). Where plaintiff filed only one amended notice of appeal from seven orders issued by ...

* Amwest Insurance Group has promoted Jeffrey A. Shonka to president and chief operating officer and Phillip E. Huff to executive vice president and chief financial officer. Shonka, 38, has been with ...