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How to Maximize Your Book with Personal Umbrellas
Aug 16 2010 // Plus 5 Simple Steps to Follow When Writing Coverage Do your insureds live in a house? Do they drive? Do they entertain? Do they have boats, motorcycles or other toys? Do they have rental property? Of course they do and...
Agency Marketing Must Move Online and Beyond Yellow Pages
Aug 16 2010 // Insurance agents could be more effective with their marketing efforts by incorporating online tools into their advertising strategy. After all, online resources often are free — and they’re a good way to build...
Why Carriers’ Producer Bulletins Are Like Greyhound Buses
Aug 16 2010 // Communications from carriers are crucial to an agency’s business. Through producer bulletins, carriers describe changes, policy updates, and other business matters. Yet producer bulletins are the Greyhound buses of...
Massachusetts Agents Score Policy Ownership Victory
Aug 16 2010 // Massachusetts insurance agents scored a victory as the state’s governor signed a new law allowing them to keep their rights to clients’ expiring auto policies – a move sought by agents since the...
Insurers’ Plans for Oil Industry Sought
Aug 16 2010 // In the wake of the BP oil disaster, more than 50 U.S. and other environmentally active global investors sent letters to major energy companies asking them to disclose information on their spill prevention and response...
How to Maximize Your Book with Personal Umbrellas Plus 5 Steps to Follow When Writing Coverage
Aug 16 2010 // Do your insureds live in a house? Do they drive? Do they entertain? Do they have boats, motorcycles or other toys? Do they have rental property? Of course they do and because of that, they’re at risk. So why...
Why Carriers’ Producer Bulletins Are Like Greyhound Buses
Aug 16 2010 // What Agents Should Expect in Bulletins from Their Companies Communications from carriers are crucial to an agency’s business. Through producer bulletins, carriers describe changes, policy updates, and other business...
Agency Marketing Must Move Online and Beyond
Aug 16 2010 // Insurance agents could be more effective with their marketing efforts by incorporating online tools into their advertising strategy. After all, online resources often are free – and they’re a good way to build...
Weather Experts Discuss Why Insurers, Others Need Better Warning Systems
Aug 13 2010 // Asia’s heavy monsoons, a record heatwave in Russia and severe droughts in Africa show the need for new yardsticks to rate extreme weather to guide everybody from road builders to insurance companies, a U.N. expert...
China Loosens Restrictions on Insurance Investments
Aug 12 2010 // China modified rules to allow insurance companies to invest as much as three times the previous limit in overseas capital markets, part of a broader reform designed to give them more investment options. The move is seen...
Texas Warns Insurers on Auto Claims
Aug 11 2010 // Texas Insurance Commissioner Mike Geeslin has released a bulletin reminding auto insurance providers that it is against state law to “directly or indirectly limit the insurer’s coverage under a policy covering...
Louisiana High Court Asked to Look at Insurer Duties in Road Home Case
Aug 11 2010 // Are some 151,000 homeowners insurance claim assignments made to the state of Louisiana as part of its Road Home program legal under Louisiana law? That’s the question the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has...
Artwork, Antiques Feel The Heat, Too; Insurer Offers Tips
Aug 10 2010 // Temperatures getting a little uncomfortable? Your artwork and antiques are probably feeling the humidity as much as you are. Paintings and works of art on paper expand and contract in response to changes in temperature and...
Insurers Await Report on Japanese Tanker Attack
Aug 9 2010 // A suspected militant strike on a Japanese-owned tanker illustrates how vulnerable merchant ships are to attack on the high seas with navies stretched fighting Somali piracy, analysts and shipping sources said on...
U.S. Captive Insurers’ Underwriting Income Drops; Investments Improve
Aug 9 2010 // Net income doubled in 2009 over 2008 for a composite of 195 U.S. captive insurers followed by A.M. Best Co., driven by the recovery of the industry’s investments. Realized capital gains totaled $82 million for 2009,...
Keystone Insurers Group Adds Miller & Miller as 23rd Ohio Partner
Aug 9 2010 // Keystone Insurers Group’s newest Ohio partner, Miller & Miller Inc., of Dover, has become the group’s 23rd agency in Ohio and one of 212 independent agencies in six states that comprise and own...
Massachusetts Agents Score Policy Ownership Victory
Aug 6 2010 // Massachusetts insurance agents scored a victory this week as the state’s governor signed a new law allowing them to keep their rights to clients’ expiring auto policies — a move sought by agents since the...
Calif. Imposes Regulations To Prevent Illegal Insurance Recissions
Aug 6 2010 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner has imposed regulations designed to combat illegal rescissions. The rules take effect on August 18. Currently, health insurers may only rescind policies under very specific,...
European Insurer Groups Weather Storm, Oil Claims But Outlook Cloudy
Aug 5 2010 // Major European insurance groups weathered a slew of damage claims for storms and the collapse of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig to post stronger-than-expected half-year earnings on Wednesday. But prospects for the rest of...
Texas Commissioner Orders $551K in Fines and Restitution in June
Aug 5 2010 // Enforcement actions taken by Texas Insurance Commissioner Mike Geeslin that became final during June 2010 included four license revocations, three license denials, and fines and restitution totaling $551,012. Copies of...
