2010 Entrepreneurial Insurance Symposium On September 14 and 15 MarketScout will host over 400 industry leaders in Dallas, Texas at the fourth annual Entrepreneurial Insurance Symposium. To maintain market share, underwriters, retail agents and intermediaries must adapt. Those who understand …
Foremost Insurance Group announced it has re-branded Bristol West Auto Insurance to the Foremost brand to support the company’s market strategy. Both Foremost and Bristol West were acquired by Farmers Insurance Group — Foremost in 2000 and Bristol West in …
Writing about the landfall of Hurricane Katrina five years ago, essayist Ellis Anderson of Mississippi likened the communities along the gulf to a string of pearls. “Then, in August 2005, in the course of a single morning, Katrina severed the …
Erie, Colo., is the second community in Boulder County to allow people to drive golf carts on public streets. The town trustees voted 4-3 to allow the electric vehicles on streets with posted speed limits of 25 mph. Drivers must …
Ohio Department of Insurance Director Mary Jo Hudson has announced that former insurance agent Jamie Smith of Bowling Green, Ohio, has been convicted on one count of felony theft in the Lucas County Court of Common Pleas. Director Hudson has …
Digman Insurance Services of Fort Wayne, Ind., has joined The Iroquois Group, according to agency principal Stacy Digman. Digman, who has 13 years of experience as a licensed agent, owned an agency representing one company for eight years before starting …
Former Houston Mayor Bill White, a Democrat campaigning to replace Rick Perry as governor of Texas, says homeowners insurance rates in Texas are too high and should be subject to more regulation. White says Texans pay an average $626 more …
Recent surprise inspections show that increased enforcement isn’t preventing U.S. coal mines from continuing to violate safety laws, the federal Mine Safety & Health Administration said. MSHA inspectors found miners had worked under an unsupported roof at a Tennessee mine, …
A Christians-only health care plan provides a “contract for insurance” and doesn’t qualify for exemption from state regulations as a religious publication, the Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled in a decision that potentially opens the plan to stricter regulations by …
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) has issued advisories on Hurricane Danielle, Tropical Storm Earl and Hurricane Frank. No watches or warnings of possible landfall have been issued. Danielle, a Category 4 hurricane, is expected to strengthen and pass Bermuda on …
