March 8, 2004
Florida-based Brown & Brown, Inc. announced that it has acquired the assets of Statfeld Vantage Insurance Group and Waldor Agency, Inc. Both are located in Florham Park, New Jersey. Joint announcements were made by Thomas E. Riley, Regional Executive Vice …
March 8, 2004
The U.K.’s Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) and the Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters (CILA) announced that they have formed a Faculty of Claims to lead the market in the arena of claims handling and support. Under the chairmanship of CII …
March 8, 2004
Kingsway Financial Services Inc. issued an announcement following the actions taken by A.M. Best, which lowered is ratings on two of the group’s subsidiaries, Kingsway General Insurance Company and York Fire & Casualty Insurance Company from A- (Excellent) to B++ …
March 8, 2004
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. reported that fourth-quarter earnings more than doubled, partly due to the company’s $1.7 billion pre-tax underwriting profit from insurance operations, because “that’s where the money is at” commented Chairman of the Board Warren Buffett in his famous …
March 8, 2004
Surplus lines company executives and wholesalers at NAPSLO responded uniformly with broad smiles when asked about their 2003 results. Although I’ve been around the specialty industry for more years than I care to reveal and now having seen multiple hard …
March 8, 2004
While the state’s economic recovery has not yet reached every part of the business spectrum, 72 percent of California small business owners polled are expecting 2004 to be an overall better year than 2003, according to an annual statewide survey …
March 8, 2004
According to the U.S. Census Bureau there were 5,652,544 firms actively doing business in the U.S. in 2001, the latest available totals. This doesn’t count the millions of people who are self-employed. 5,036,845 of them employed less than 20 people. …
March 8, 2004
Industry executives in the workers’ compensation field from across the nation gathered in Las Vegas Feb. 5-6 for the 5th Annual AMCOMP (American Society of Workers’ Comp Professionals Inc.) Meeting & Conference. The two-day conference featured several panels and seminars, …
March 8, 2004
The use of loss history reports on individual dwellings is an important and necessary tool that insurers need to help them underwrite homeowners’ policies in Nevada. That’s the message delivered by the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) at …
March 8, 2004
If you like your customers as much as we like ours, you probably care what happens to them over the long term. When you decide to make a career change or retire, and a family member is not going to …