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Top 10 myths of D&O liability insurance
Mar 26 2007 // Squelching frequent misconceptions of this valuable protection. In today’s soft directors and officers market, the importance of a long term approach can often be lost in the process of securing coverage. However,...
Agents Hit U.S. Chamber Backing of Federal Insurance Regulation
Mar 26 2007 // As they prepare to converge on Washington, D.C. to meet with federal legislators, insurance agents are targeting a recent U.S. Chamber of Commerce endorsement of federal insurance regulation for criticism. The National...
The New Frontier
Mar 26 2007 // Information technology companies may explore the new frontier everyday, but do they know where their exposures lie? Will they be ready for the next big liability risk close encounter? “Owners and or creators of IT...
Agents group and Texas PTA team up to fight teen drinking
Mar 26 2007 // The “Party 101: Consequences” development team involved teens in the creation, production and taping of the program. News Currents With Texas leading the nation in alcohol related deaths among young people, the...
Top 10 myths of D&O liability insurance
Mar 26 2007 // In today’s soft directors and officers market, the importance of a long term approach can often be lost in the process of securing coverage. However, history has proven in the past 15-plus years that the D&O...
People
Mar 26 2007 // Willis Group Holdings Limited has amended the employment agreement with Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Joseph J. Plumeri to extend its term for an additional year. The employment agreement, which was scheduled to...
The New Frontier: Hidden exposures and brewing claims in the tech liability field
Mar 26 2007 // Information technology companies may explore the new frontier everyday, but do they know where their exposures lie? Will they be ready for the next big liability risk close encounter? “Owners and or creators of IT...
More than just business
Mar 26 2007 // Insuring child welfare organizations offers opportunities, rewards and good business After spending most of her childhood and adolescent years growing up in foster care agencies, Rhonda Sciortino, a California independent...
U.S. Risk Names Dalton a Senior Broker in Houston Office
Mar 26 2007 // U.S. Risk Brokers, a subsidiary of U.S. Risk Insurance Group, announced that James C. Dalton has been named senior broker in its Houston office. In this position, Dalton will assume responsibility of executive liability...
Agent, Councilman Sentenced to Probation in Ala. Corruption Probe
Mar 26 2007 // Orange Beach City Councilman Joseph McCarron was fined $1,000 and sentenced to six months of unsupervised probation for his conviction in a corruption case. McCarron, 69, who appeared in Baldwin County court in a...
N.D. Agent Under Investigation for Fraud Found Dead
Mar 26 2007 // Insurance Commissioner Jim Poolman is investigating whether some of an Underwood insurance agent’s customers have lacked coverage for years because she issued bogus policies and kept their premium payments. At least...
Agents group and Texas PTA team up to fight teen drinking
Mar 26 2007 // With Texas leading the nation in alcohol related deaths among young people, the Texas PTA and the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas have launched a statewide campaign designed to prevent underage drinking. The campaign...
Handle customer data with care — it’s the law
Mar 26 2007 // Insurance agents and brokers constantly deal with customers’ personal information. Yet many in the industry may not be aware of the legal requirements for handling or storing this information. How should agents and...
Bonus round
Mar 26 2007 // Last November, then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer notified four insurance companies that they could no longer pay contingent commissions to agents and brokers who sell automobile, homeowners and certain other...
Top 10 ways for California surplus line brokers to avoid E&O exposures
Mar 26 2007 // Editor’s note: Although this article is geared toward California surplus line brokers, with small variations the same advice may be of help to surplus line and retail brokers in other states. Surplus line brokers...
More than just business
Mar 26 2007 // After spending most of her childhood and adolescent years growing up in foster care agencies, Rhonda Sciortino, a California independent insurance agent, felt she had to give back in the best way she knew how. In 1989,...
Top 10 ways for California surplus line brokers to avoid E&O exposures
Mar 26 2007 // Editor’s note: Although this article is geared toward California surplus line brokers, with small variations the same advice may be of help to surplus line and retail brokers in other states. Surplus line brokers...
People
Mar 26 2007 // Willis Group Holdings Ltd. amended the employment agreement with Chairman and CEO Joseph J. Plumeri to extend the term for an additional year. The employment agreement, which was scheduled to expire Oct. 15, 2008, will now...
Life Brokerage Association Exec Resigns
Mar 23 2007 // The National Association of Independent Life Brokerage Agencies (NAILBA) announced today that it has accepted the resignation of Executive Vice President Joseph M. Normandy. NAILBA has appointed an executive search...
TriSure’s Folger Named President-Elect of N.C. Agents Group
Mar 23 2007 // R. Cleve Folger, a founding partner at TriSure Corp., was named president elect of the Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina. Folger will assume his duties at the association’s annual convention in...
