Yearly Archives: <span>2011</span>

AIG’s Benmosche, Responding Well to Cancer Treatment, to Stay as CEO

American International Group Inc. (AIG) said that CEO Robert H. Benmosche’s prognosis for his cancer is such that he is expected to be able to remain in his position at AIG on his previously announced timetable, which would have him …

Business Moves

Combined Agents, Elliott Insurance, HC&H Insurance Austin, Texas-based Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA) has added two new agency members, one located in Kansas and one in North Texas. With the addition of the two new members of the group …

Declarations

2011 Exposures “Exposures will continue the growth we saw in the second half of 2010 as the economy continues its recovery, implying increases in insurance premium volume. Still, the low interest rate climate, which will likely persist throughout 2011, will …

It Figures

$454.5 Million Collections to Oklahoma’s general revenue fund totaled $454.5 million in December 2010. That’s $52 million, or 13 percent, more than December 2009, and nearly $19 million, or 4 percent, above the amount state officials had estimated. State Treasurer …

How to Get a Jump on the New Year

5 Ways Independent Agents Can Begin the Year Poised for Growth Did the distractions of the holiday season take focus off of identifying ways to grow your business in the new year? If so, here are five strategies to help …

Judge Imprisons 2 for Life in Texas Church Arsons

A judge has sentenced two men to life in prison after they pleaded guilty in a series of fires at churches in Smith County in East Texas last year. Judge Christi Kennedy ordered the prison terms for 20-year-old Jason Robert …

Sidelining Agents

In their zeal to control health care costs, federal and state policymakers may be pushing health insurance agents and brokers to the sidelines and potentially out of business. If this happens, they will be shortchanging the consumers who rely on …

Panel on BP Oil Spill Calls for Tougher Oversight

A White House commission probing BP’s massive oil spill has called for an overhaul of a regulatory system that was “entirely unprepared” for disaster and outlined stringent, new oversight, a plan sure to face opposition from Republicans reluctant to expand …

People

Incoming Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John Doak has appointed 10 members of his staff to lead the Oklahoma Insurance Department: Mike Rhoads is deputy commissioner of Health Insurance; Denise Engle is deputy commissioner of Workers’ Compensation; Former state Sen. Randy Brogdon …

Return-to-Work Process Helps Employees Return to Normalcy Faster

Unfortunately, many companies have workplace accidents at some point that may require an employee to be away from work whether for a few days or a few months. According to the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics, in …