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January 12, 2004
Midwest Edition
The Industry's Most Influential
The Strange Saga of Near North's Michael Segal
We are destroyed as of today," Michael Segal, owner of Chicago-based Near North National Group, told me several weeks ago in his 20th-floor office in the John Hancock Tower. The group's subsidiary, Near North Insurance Brokerage Inc. (NNIB), was Chicago's third-largest brokerage as recently as 2002 with annual revenues of $115 million but is ...Features
Editor's Note: ... And a Happy New Magazine!
Standards Boost Efficiency of Licensing, Appointments and Contracts
NAIC President Csiszar Tells All
NAIC Meeting Targets Reform in 2004
Big I's Virtual University Tops Insurance Journal Poll
Who Made the Most Influential Agent List in 2003'
Insurance Journal, InsuranceTimes Team Up for Northeast Publication
Peak Performance Offers Insight to Agency Management
Record Number of Risk Retention Groups Formed in 2003
Ill. Insurance Director Tony Clark May Face Another Budget Crunch
Alliance, NAII Boards Approve Merger; New Group to be Called PCI
Midwest Comp Market: Proceed With Caution
To Fee, or Not to Fee
CNA Targets $1 Billion in Main Street Business
Slow Ill. Job Market May Mean Less P/C Growth
Minding Your Business: Trends 2004: Are You Prepared'
Growing Your Property Casualty Agency: How to Get More than Referrals from Your Leading Accounts
Parting Shots: The Illinois Marketplace: Is the Future in Peril'
Departments
Fraud Roundup
- Ohio Agent Loses License for $200,000 Claim Payment Theft
- Iowa Agent Gets 4 Years for Securities Fraud
- N.D. Man Gets 1 Year for Workers' Comp Fraud
- Kan. Fraud Unit Takes On Battle Against Crime
- Poolman Orders Benefits Company to Stop Selling in N.D.
Newsbriefs
- MO. COURT STRIKES DOWN MANAGED CARE COMP RULES:
- INDUSTRY GIVES BIG TO OHIO JUSTICE:
- FLA. CARRIER'S MINN. DONATIONS UNDER INVESTIGATION:
- MO. CRACKS DOWN ON AGENT TAX CHEATS:
- OHIO MOVES CLOSER TO ASBESTOS REFORM:
- N.D. WORKERS INSURANCE DIRECTOR SACKED:
- CINCINNATI FINANCIAL MAY RELEASE AS MUCH AS $75 MILLION IN RESERVES:
- CNA POSTS $1.8 BILLION Q3 LOSS:

