Yearly Archives: <span>2010</span>

Unleash the Power of Your Computer

How to Gain More Hours a Day Computers should bring efficiency and save a lot of time. But they can actually waste time if you don’t use them properly. Most agencies have an agency management system and a rating system, …

Poll: More New Jersey Drivers Are Texting

More New Jersey motorists surveyed say they’re texting behind the wheel and speeding. But Garden State residents believe New York motorists are the worst drivers. Some 25 percent of New Jersey motorists surveyed in Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind Poll, released …

Rhode Island Court Allows Cliff Walk Case To Proceed

Rhode Island’s Supreme Court has ruled that a man who became a quadriplegic when he fell from Newport’s Cliff Walk while on his honeymoon can move forward with his lawsuit. The city of Newport wanted to re-argue the case, but …

It Figures

$60 Million Reported price to be paid by Deutsche Bank for AIG’s building at 72 Wall St. to a consortium of owners, including a South Korean investment banking firm that purchased the building last year. The building comprises one of …

Heffernan Insurance Focusing on Latin Markets

Walnut Creek, Calif.-based Heffernan Insurance Brokers has created a team of brokers focused on the Latin marketplace. Leticia Treviño, a commercial lines manager and vice president in Heffernan’s Walnut Creek office, is leading a team of brokers who are reaching …

NIP Launches Insurance Program for PetCare Professionals

NIP Programs, a division of NIP Group, Inc. has created a new insurance program designed specifically for the pet care industry. The new program is called PetPro and works as a one-stop, complete insurance and risk management solution to protect …

Mercury General Reports Q2 Net Premiums Written Down 1 percent

Mercury General Corp. reported it spent $12.1 million in the second quarter of 2010 supporting Proposition 17, a California ballot initiative that did not pass. Nevertheless, the Los Angeles-based insurer reported net income in the second quarter 2010 was $17.8 …

Towers Watson: Gulf Oil Spill not a Major Event for P/C Insurers

The Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico will not be a major event for the property/casualty insurance industry, but it may spur tightening of insurance terms and prices in the energy sector, according to global professional services company …

London’s Oxygen Insurance Appoints Rowlands Head of Office

Oxygen Insurance Brokers, a subsidiary of Oxygen Holdings plc, has appointed Simon Rowlands as head of office, Oxygen Corporate Risks, (Leeds). Rowlands recently joined Oxygen as senior client director from Barlett. He is a fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute …

Ohio Insurance Department Recovered $11.4M for Consumers in 2009

Claim denials were the number one complaint of Ohio insurance consumers in 2009, according to statistics released by the Ohio Department of Insurance. Nearly one-third of the 5,453 consumer complaints received by the department dealt with the denial of insurance …