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Homeowners Insurance Directory Begins Televised Ads
Mar 29 2007 // InsureMyHouse.com, a national directory of homeowners insurance agents, will be featured in commercials with the Better Business Bureau. Media, PA – InsureMyHouse.com started out two years ago as an insurance...
Ohio State Auto Completes Purchase of Beacon Insurance Group
Mar 29 2007 // Ohio-based State Automobile Mutual Insurance Co. has completed the purchase of the Beacon Insurance Group of Wichita Falls, Texas. With the acquisition, Texas becomes State Auto’s 29th state of operation, according...
Mass. Auto Report Urges Limited Price Competition; No Assigned Risk Change for Now
Mar 27 2007 // A special auto insurance study group appointed by Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has recommended modest changes to introduce limited pricing competition while warning against a proposed overhaul of the state’s high...
Bipartisan Flood Insurance ‘Modernization’ Bill Boosts Borrowing, Maximum Limits
Mar 27 2007 // U.S. Reps. Judy Biggert, R-Ill., and Barney Frank, D-Mass., introduced bipartisan legislation to revamp the National Flood Insurance Program that boosts the program’s borrowing authority to $21.5 billion, increases...
Ill. Speciality Underwriters Contracts with New Partner
Mar 27 2007 // Specialty Underwriters’ Alliance, Inc., through its subsidiary SUA Insurance Co., today announced a new Partner Agent agreement with Flying Eagle Insurance Services, Inc. (“Flying Eagle”) to market and...
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...
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...
