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Reinsurance Broker BMS Adds Hernandez to Marine Team in Conn.
Jul 27 2007 // BMS, a reinsurance intermediary, has appointed Frank Hernandez as senior vice president for its Marine & Energy team. He will be based in Shelton, Conn. Hernandez was previously at Towers Perrin as head of its Global...
New England Broker Telamon Adds Insurance for Electronic Data
Jul 26 2007 // New England insurance broker Telamon Insurance & Financial Network is going beyond typical insurance offerings by partnering with a firm to give its business clients insurance for their electronic data. The broker is...
Hawkeye-Security Insurance Named 2007 Top Partner by Mo. Agent Group
Jul 26 2007 // Hawkeye-Security Insurance, a member of Liberty Mutual Group, has been named 2007 Top Partner insurer by the Missouri Association of Insurance Agents (MAIA). The award was presented to President and Chief Executive Officer...
Former N.D. Agent’s Bail Set at $100,000
Jul 26 2007 // Bail has been set at $100,000 for a former insurance agent facing fraud and theft charges in North Dakota, Minnesota and Colorado. David Skjerven, 60, of Sedona, Ariz., told Judge Wade Webb that he is unemployed and would...
HRH Acquires Kansas Employee Benefits Broker The Resource Group
Jul 26 2007 // Richmond, Va.-based insurance broker Hilb Rogal & Hobbs Co. said it is acquiring the assets of The Resource Group, L.C. Terms of the transaction, which is expected to close on Aug. 1, 2007, were not disclosed. Founded...
Burglaries at Ark. Insurance Agencies Trigger Notification Requirements
Jul 25 2007 // Following a series of burglaries at insurance agencies in Arkansas, Insurance Commissioner Julie Benafield Bowman issued a reminder to all insurance companies of the notification requirements concerning security...
Johnsen Joins Heffernan Insurance Brokers in San Francisco
Jul 25 2007 // Heffernan Insurance Brokers, a full-service insurance brokerage firms in the San Francisco Bay Area, has hired Jay Johnsen as assistant vice president in the San Francisco office. Johnsen specializes in marketing assisted...
Find out Why Best Insurance Agents Spend Less Money on Marketing but Sell More Policies than You Do.
Jul 24 2007 // Insurance agents, financial advisors and financial planners are wasting thousands of dollars on expensive bus bench advertisements, junk mail post card marketing, dinner seminars, yellow pages, and ineffective newspaper...
Indiana insurer for mutual insurers, agents celebrates 20 years
Jul 23 2007 // The blueprint for the company was originally conceived by an ad hoc task force of senior executive officers from several mutual property/casualty insurance companies in response to the liability insurance crisis of the...
Smaller Mass. agencies could be hurt by surprise move to competitive rating for auto
Jul 23 2007 // Massachusetts insurance agents aren’t happy about the decision to introduce competitive rating into the state’s price-regulated private passenger auto insurance system. They enjoy the best market share in the...
The Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act
Jul 23 2007 // The right policy at the right time … After decades of frustration and brutal disappointment, the vexing and seemingly intractable tax payment and regulatory compliance problems surplus lines brokers face on...
N.J. agents hope to end auto insurance quote requirement
Jul 23 2007 // New Jersey agents no longer want to be required by state law to provide quotes from all of their auto insurance companies to all auto insurance applicants. The Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey Inc. and the...
How to make insuring tough product liability accounts easier
Jul 23 2007 // Skis, ladders, pacemakers and nutraceuticals may be different products at first glance, but all share challenges in finding coverage. According to Nan Meyer, product manager for Shand-Morahan, and David Rosenburg,...
Control experience modification factor, before it controls you
Jul 23 2007 // Moving employers to take the right steps to reduce experience mod factors One of the most confusing components of an employer’s workers’ compensation policy is the experience modification factor. Employers...
Smaller Mass. agencies could be hurt by surprise move to competitive rating for auto
Jul 23 2007 // Massachusetts insurance agents aren’t happy about the decision to introduce competitive rating into the state’s price-regulated private passenger auto insurance system. They enjoy the best market share in the...
N.J. agents hope to end auto insurance quote requirement
Jul 23 2007 // New Jersey agents no longer want to be required by state law to provide quotes from all of their auto insurance companies to all auto insurance applicants. The Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey Inc. and the...
How to make insuring tough product liability accounts easier
Jul 23 2007 // Skis, ladders, pacemakers and nutraceuticals may be different products at first glance, but all share challenges in finding coverage. According to Nan Meyer, product manager for Shand-Morahan, and David Rosenburg,...
The Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act
Jul 23 2007 // After decades of frustration and brutal disappointment, the vexing and seemingly intractable tax payment and regulatory compliance problems surplus lines brokers face on multi-state risks are about to be solved. The long...
Despite firefighting prowess, the Russians aren’t coming
Jul 23 2007 // While the Southeast’s largest wildfire in over a century was still smoldering in Georgia after burning 903 square miles, a fresh conflagration reared its ugly head in California, and an American pilot from Virginia...
How to make insuring tough product liability accounts easier
Jul 23 2007 // Skis, ladders, pacemakers and nutraceuticals may be different products at first glance, but all share challenges in finding coverage. According to Nan Meyer, product manager for Shand-Morahan, and David Rosenburg,...
