May 21, 2013
Fleet managers and parents of teenager drivers were given another weapon in their battle against distracted driving on Tuesday. That’s according to Cellcontrol, the maker of technology to stop distracted driving. The Baton Rouge, La.-based company unveiled its driver identification …
May 20, 2013
Editor’s Note: This is part of a team report on opioid use by injured workers. For the national story read: Opioid Epidemic Plagues Workers’ Comp Washington and California are among states in the U.S. Western Region that have publicly struggled with …
May 20, 2013
Technology veteran Todd Coombes’ approach to his new job as the first chief information officer for the California Earthquake Authority is to keep an enterprising yet cautious eye on the risks and rewards that emerging technologies offer. Among the issues …
May 20, 2013
Among a horde of bills wending its way through California’s Legislature, there’s an innocuous looking bill with simple language to change a few words in existing law that could have a great deal of meaning to those in the surplus …
May 7, 2013
As a horde of bills that’s introduced each year wends their way through both houses of California’s Legislature, a few people in the insurance industry are watching closely an innocuous looking bill with simple language to change a few words …
May 6, 2013
Renewal of the Terrorism and Risk Insurance Act was a much talked about topic at the annual Risk and Insurance Management Society conference, a four-day event in Los Angeles, Calif. in late April that included panels focused on a variety …
May 6, 2013
Choosing an historic icon that stood after San Francisco’s great earthquake and massive fire more than 100 years ago was a deft, almost poetic, public relations concept to celebrate Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co.’s sesquicentennial. In April the company so many …
April 26, 2013
You hear a lot of companies promoting their charitable efforts but few have the charitable sounding umph as the name Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. The company was founded in 1863 by ship captain William Holdredge, and the company’s name celebrates …
April 26, 2013
Choosing a historic icon that stood after San Francisco’s Great Earthquake and massive fire more than 100 years ago was a deft, almost poetic, public relations concept to celebrate Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co.’s sesquicentennial. Earlier this month the company so …
April 24, 2013
It appears the chief risk faced by those in charge of risk programs are sky high taxes. According to a survey by the Risk and Insurance Management Society, which wrapped up a four-day conference in Los Angeles with an announcement …