Douglas G. Hotchkiss, owner of the Dallas, Texas-based Hotchkiss Insurance Agency, hadn’t thought much about building “green” or environmentally-friendly structures....
Yearly Archives: 2006
Let’s start with three basic ideas about property/casualty insurance distributed through independent agents and brokers — a sector with more...
A fundamental problem exists with insurance scoring. The problem is that insurance scores and credit scores reflect correlation, but correlation...
California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation has issued a revised proposal of regulations that would penalize insurers and self-insurers that show...
With rapid innovations in the field of information technology, types of underwriting that didn’t exist a few decades ago have...
Ups and downs “It now appears clear that the industry’s record profits in 2004 and 2005, and the exceptional record...
Motor vehicle crashes involving deer are up by about 19 percent in Washington and Idaho, judging by claims filed with...
Retaliation claims have been on the rise for more than a decade. According to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,...
The number of open claims files being handled by the California Insurance Guaranty Association (CIGA) has dropped from a high...
N12 84 IT spurs need for underwriters Professional liability issues expected to grow