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E&O Insights: Hotspots to Consider When Insuring Construction Risks

Jan 10 2011 // Workers’ Compensation, Certificates of Insurance, Unique Policy Language Areas of Concern Although the economy has taken its toll on the construction industry, the majority of insurance agencies probably insure a...

Arrowhead General Insurance Agency Wins ACORD Award For Real Time Agency Data Upload

Jun 3 2010 // San Diego, CA, 06/03/2010 – ARROWHEAD General Insurance Agency, Inc., a leading provider of top rated insurance programs, is pleased to announce it was a recipient of an Early Adopter ACORD Award. Presenting the...

ACORD to Reintroduce Homeowners Insurance Application Form, ACORD 80

Aug 19 2009 // The insurance industry standards organization ACORD says it will reintroduce its monoline homeowner application form (ACORD 80) this October. The form was withdrawn from the ACORD Forms Library in October 2008 and replaced...

Retail, Wholesale Insurance Brokers Working on Electronic Transactions

Dec 19 2008 // Retail insurance agents and wholesale brokers are working on a plan to streamline how they do business together including improving electronic applications, electronic interfaces between the parties, and general agent Web...

RI3K to Offer Free ACORD Data Messages

Oct 30 2008 // The London-based electronic trading service RI3K announced the launch of its RI3K Data Exchange service (RDX). “This is an entry-level solution for passing ACORD xml data and documents from RI3K directly to...

RI3K Receives 3 ACORD Awards

May 20 2008 // RI3K, the London-based trading platform for reinsurance and commercial risks that is changing the face of the Lloyd’s market, has seen its breakthrough efforts rewarded. Following last year’s unprecedented six...

RI3K Receives 5 ACORD Awards

Jun 19 2007 // London-based RI3K, which provides electronic trading services to insurers and reinsurers, received five awards at the recent 2007 ACORD Awards ceremony in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. RI3K won in the following...

Booth of Allianz Chairs ACORD

Jan 17 2007 // Clem Booth, a member of the management board of Allianz, SE, has been designated the 2007 chair of ACORD’s board of directors. John Kellington, chief technology officer and senior vice president of Ohio Casualty...

Bharal Named ACORD RLC Program Director

Sep 28 2006 // ACORD promoted Puneet Bharal as program director for its Reinsurance and Large Commercial (RLC) standards program. He formerly served as the RLC Program Manager. In this new position, Bharal will manage the RLC standards...

London’s Web Connectivity Appoints Willison New Managing Director

Aug 15 2006 // London-based Web Connectivity, which provides solutions for data transformation and exchange, has appointed James Willison as Managing Director with a mandate “to drive its business offerings in the London Insurance...

ACORD Presents Ohio-based Westfield Insurance with Leadership Award

May 25 2006 // Ohio-based Westfield Insurance has been awarded the Industry Leadership for Improved Commercial Lines Download award from ACORD. This award recognizes insurance companies who offer extensive commercial download based on...

Acord Loma to Host Insurance Systems Forum

Apr 7 2006 // ACORD LOMA will be hosting an Insurance Systems Forum on May 22-24, 2006, at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada. The program includes: -“Harnessing the Business Potential of Information Technology” by...

CPCU speaker describes what to watch out for with Certificates of Insurance

Feb 19 2006 // Certificates of Insurance: The Second Most Dangerous Piece of Paper,” including specifics about various insurance contract terms and provisions, and what to do and not to do with certificates of insurance were...

Fla. CPCU Speaker Outlines Certificates of Insurance Terms, Provisions

Feb 2 2006 // “Certificates of Insurance: The Second Most Dangerous Piece of Paper,” including specifics about various insurance contract terms and provisions, and what to do and not to do with certificates of insurance were...

Jan 1 2006 // Plymouth Rock Assurance Corporation, a Boston-based auto insurer, has appointed Matthew H. Cronin as senior marketing representative and Sean P. Farrelly as marketing representative, both in Connecticut. Cronin will...

Maike Joins ACORD as Director of Standards Planning

Dec 5 2005 // ACORD has announced the appointment of Cindy Maike as director of standards planning. In this new position, Maike will be responsible for supporting and coordinating strategic standards initiatives at ACORD across all of...

Laker Appointed Assistant VP of ACORD in London

Dec 2 2005 // International standards provider ACORD announced the appointment of Roy Laker as Assistant Vice President, London Market. His “role will be to coordinate the activities in the London market of ACORD’s various...

Prettejohn Stresses Underwriting Discipline, Reforms in Keynote Speech to ACORD Forum

Oct 21 2005 // Lloyd’s CEO Nick Prettejohn, in what may be his last major address as Lloyd’s CEO (See IJ Web site Oct. 17 and 18), told those assembled for the ACORD Forum in London that underwriting discipline continues to...

S. Floridians Viewed Hurricane Katrina as an Expensive Nuisance

Sep 19 2005 // Insurance adjusters scrambled to South Florida to work on claims before they realized Hurricane Katrina was going to cross into the Gulf of Mexico and become a catastrophic hurricane devastating Mississippi and...

Policyholders Line Up to File Claims at Miss. Agency; Fla. Associations Offer Aid, Assistance to Kartina’s Victims

Aug 31 2005 // Insurance adjusters are scrambling around South Florida, where before crossing into the Gulf of Mexico and becoming a catastrophic hurricane, Katrina slapped Dade and Broward counties with damages experts estimate from...