Yearly Archives: 2001

CREDIT SCORING PONDERED

Positive aspects of how the use of credit scores in insurance underwriting benefits consumers were recently demonstrated to Colorado state...

8 INSURERS FEEL FIRE RISKS

In seven western fire-prone states, eight large property and casualty insurers are exposed to 74.5 percent of the home insurance...

WORKERS’ COMP BILL FALLS SHORT

According to Insurance Brokers and Agents of the West (IBA West), SB 71 (Burton & Calderon), a bill moving through...

S&P GIVES FRONTIER ‘R’

On Aug. 28, Standard & Poor’s assigned its ‘R’ financial strength rating to Frontier Insurance Co. after the New York...

NATIONWIDE INFRINGED UPON’

Nationwide filed a federal trademark infringement suit against Florida-based companies, which, using the names Nationwide Insurance Group Inc. and The...

Looking Back at the Rise of NAPSLO

By Mason Blodgett
NAPSLO, or the National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices, Limited, was organized during the years of 1973, 1974 and...