Features for January 2009
- Region’s Best Practices Agencies
- Iowa to Address Flood Recovery Despite Economic Concerns
- Labor, Trial Lawyers Criticize Kansas Workers’ Compensation System
- Contractor Additional Insured Endorsements May Reduce Coverage Available to the Named Insured
- Customer Retention Should Be Priority No. 1 for Agency Managers
- Older Drivers’ Fatal Crashes Trend Down Even as More Seniors Drive
- Even Best Practices Agencies Struggle To Grow in Soft Market
- North Dakota Could Back Tougher Teen Driving Laws
- Madoff Scandal to Cost Insurers $1.8 Billion, Aon Benfield Estimates
- Domestic Insurers Winning Florida Homeowners Market
- Customer Retention Should Be Priority No. 1 for Agency Managers
- Montana Lawmakers Look at Limiting Recreational Liability
- Industry Launches Mine Safety Effort
- Duty to Defend Greater than Duty to Indemnify
- Florida Panel Backs Rate Hikes, Stricter Rules for Citizens
- Connecticut Group Sues over Damage Caused by Implosion
- Nevada Names Kipper Insurance Commissioner
- Insurers Seek Cut in Florida Hurricane Fund Charges
- Insurance Claims for 2008 U.S. Catastrophes to Top $25 Billion
- Foreclosures, Vacant Properties Increase with Continuing Financial Crisis
- Court: New Jersey Woman Can Pursue Perfume Lawsuit
- California Appeals Court Reverses Pollution Liability Decision
- AIG Client Sues Over 2005 Miami Seaplane Crash
- Obama Presidency Could Dramatically Influence Courts, Vanderbilt Professor Says
- Don’t Cheap Out on the Training
- Workers’ Compensation Claim on Wrong Eye Leads to Insurance Fraud Charges against New York Man
- Agents Speak Out on ‘Putting Back the Pieces’ After Brooke
- Ky. Officers Sue Over Holiday Party Injuries
- London’s Reach Bolsters U.S. Specialty Lines
- Texas No. 1 for Railway Accidents; Harris County Leads the Way
- Change and Protect
- E.P.I.C. Announces Settlement with Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.
- Mississippi Scruggs-Katrina Suits Quietly Settled
- People
- Maine’s Kofman Vows to Do the Job that Feds Can’t
- Continuing Financial Crisis Leads to Vacant Properties, Vulnerable to Vandalism, Metal Theft
- Florida Officially Rejects State Farm Rate Hike
- They’re Baaaaack!
- Specter of Danger Surrounds Cell Phones in Cars
- Montana Bill Suggests Implementing Fire-Safety Incentives
- BrickStreet Writes Outside West Virginia; Drops Worst In-State Accounts
- Louisiana Ranks Highly in Highway Safety Report
- Michigan Advances Ergonomics Rule Over Business Opposition
- Wholesaler Innovation Helps Close the Gaps
- Florida Workers’ Compensation Market in Good Shape, Says State
- Customer Retention Should Be Priority No. 1 for Agency Managers
- Missouri Homeowners Need Insurance to Go Green
- FBI Reports Drop in Crime Including Property Crimes and Arson
- How Lawyers Hope to Fix Catastrophe Insurance Problems
- Kicking Off a Good Team
- Florida High Court Nixes Business Liability Waivers Affecting Children
- Lifelines in the Storm: Pro-Policyholder Developments in 2008
- AAA Michigan: 2 Million Residents Traveled During Holidays
- North Carolina Agrees to 4% Home Rate Hike
- Fatalities on New Hampshire Roadways Increased in 2008
- Surplus Line Association of California Stamping Office Celebrates 70 Years
- FBI Launches Investigation of Bankrupt Brooke Corp.
- Getting People to Commit to Something Bigger Than Themselves
- Mass. Court: Professional Liability Policy Excludes Document Theft
- States Rate Poorly on Consumer Insurance Information on Web
- SEC Probes Florida’s Citizens Over Securities
- Insurance Price-Fixing Lawsuit Dismissed in Louisiana
- Pennsylvania Hospitals, Docs Sue over Malpractice Fund
- Washington Workers’ Comp Insurance Premiums Increasing 3%
- Lifelines in the Storm: Pro-Policyholder Developments in 2008
- Lifelines in the Storm: Pro-Policyholder Developments in 2008
- Estimating the Credit Crisis Insurance Losses
- California Workers’ Compensation Insurers File for Rate Increases
- Group Targets Hurricane Products That Don’t Meet Florida Code
- Texas, Oklahoma Among States Requiring Fire-Safe Cigarettes
- Lifelines in the Storm: Pro-Policyholder Developments in 2008
- Private, Independent and Free
- S.C. Governor Wants Workers’ Comp Data
- FBI Launches Investigation of Bankrupt Brooke Corp.
- Getting People to Commit to Something Bigger Than Themselves
- Ex-Beacon Mutual VP Faces New Rhode Island Indictment
- Construction Insurance Brokers Say Building Backlog is Saving Commercial Sector… For Now
- Driven to Desperation, More Insureds Illegally Dumping Cars
- Summary of New State Laws
- California Workers’ Compensation Premiums Down in 2008
- Massachusetts Agents Want Regulator to Rein in Progressive
- New Employment Laws, Power Shift in Washington May Increase the Risk of Workplace Charges
- How Georgia CEO Thompson Turned the Worst into the Best
- Valuing Diversity Can Boost Sales
- Take Control of Your Workers’ Comp Costs
- Former North Dakota Workers’ Comp Director Convicted
- Facts About the Progressively Narrowing Coverage of Contractors and Additional Insured Endorsements
- West Va. Court Absolves Insurer in Underage Drinking Case
- New California Licensing Laws Take Effect
- Study: Deadliest Hotspots for Teen Crashes on New Year’s Holiday
- Economy and Climate Change Top New Year Agenda
- North Carolina Auto Rate Hike In Escrow Until Court Rules
- Oregon Producers Face Fingerprint Rules
- California Wildfires May Take Longer to Settle
- FTC Probing Insurers Over Credit-based Homeowners Insurance Pricing
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