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California Discussing Sale of State Workers’ Compensation Insurer
May 7 2008 // Rumors that California is considering selling the State Compensation Insurance Fund to help close the state budget gap are true, but government officials said the idea has amounted to no more than discussion at this...
Fiserv FSC Insurance Offers Mi-Rater, Real-Time Rating Platform
May 7 2008 // Fiserv FSC Insurance Solutions, a business unit of Fiserv, Inc. recently announced real-time rating capabilities for insurance professionals in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin. According to the company statement,...
Survey: Small Businesses Don’t Understand Their Dollars Spent on Workers’ Comp
May 6 2008 // Too many small business decision-makers appear to be spending money on workers’ compensation insurance coverage without understanding how workers’ compensation insurance works, what they get for their premium...
Mass. Agents Take Aim at Progressive Online; Insurer Defends Site
May 6 2008 // Independent agents in Massachusetts have charged that Progressive Insurance, which began selling auto insurance online in the state May 1, is skirting state regulations and misleading consumers with its Web site quoting...
High Risk Pass for New Mass. Auto Insurers Irks Established Players
May 5 2008 // Massachusetts auto insurers have been operating under a new managed competition auto insurance system for only a month now but a battle is well underway over how to treat newcomers to the state. The Patrick administration...
U.S. Insurers Face Uphill Battle to Alter Foreign Insurers’ Tax Break
May 5 2008 // A coalition of U.S. insurers is calling on lawmakers to close a tax loophole that helps foreign insurers, and although it has won the support of presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, it faces a harder task convincing...
Insurers not Impressed with Florida’s Revamped Insurance Package
May 5 2008 // While many Florida lawmakers claim to be opposed to gambling, they don’t mind taking a chance on Mother Nature. They rolled the dice again on May 1, signing off on a new insurance bill that does little to alleviate...
Established Mass. Auto Insurers Decry ‘Free Ride’ For Incoming Players
May 5 2008 // Existing carriers complain that plan to give 3-year high risk exemption to newcomers creates uneven playing field The Patrick administration is pushing a rule that exempts new auto insurers in Massachusetts from having to...
Mutuals and Stocks Behave Differently in Insurance Cycles
May 5 2008 // Difference is tied to how mutual insurers build market share, Conning researcher says When it comes to managing through a soft cycle, mutual companies behave in a way that is different than their stock-owned brethren,...
California Aims to Improve Insurance Rate Approval Process
May 5 2008 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner has issued emergency regulations that he believes will clarify and streamline the prior approval rate system for insurance. However, a consumer advocacy group said the...
Consumer Federation Says Prior Approval Works, Industry Says Not True
May 5 2008 // A nationwide consumer study of automobile insurance regulation says rates have risen more slowly in the 15 states that require insurers to receive advance approval of rate increases from the state in the past two...
What MGAs Should Know About Carriers’ Due Diligence for Programs
May 5 2008 // Proper due diligence lays the foundation for a mutually beneficial, long-term business relationship Smart program administrators know that aligning themselves with financially-strong insurance carriers can help attract...
A Soft Market Solution: MGAs and Risk Sharing
May 5 2008 // Part1: Retaining limited underwriting risk could offer MGAs a way to bolster revenue Editor’s Note: The following is part one of a discussion of the risk retention options available to MGAs, the sundry variables...
Carrier Stock Prices on the Rocks Thus Far in 2008 But M&As Robust
May 5 2008 // Stock Prices Consistent with the market as a whole, the carrier sector has had a rocky start to the new year, trading down 10 percent. M&A Activity M&A activity in the property/casualty sector remained robust as...
Industry Progressing With Real Time Technology and Downloads
May 5 2008 // Independent agents and carriers see gains — in some cases doubling — in real time transactions Just one year into the making, supporters of the Real Time/Download Campaign (www.getrealtime.org), a campaign to improve...
Insurers to Build Natural Disaster Research Center
May 5 2008 // The insurance industry is preparing to build a state-of-the-art applied research facility that will use science and technology to expand capabilities to create more durable homes and businesses and reduce the costs of...
Industry Douses Consumer Group Praise for Prior Approval of Auto Rates
May 5 2008 // A nationwide consumer study of automobile insurance regulation says that rates have risen more slowly over the past two decades in the 15 states that require insurers to receive advance approval of rate increases from the...
Supreme Court Weighs Insurer’s Conflict of Interest in Claim Denial
May 5 2008 // The Supreme Court struggled recently with how much weight to give an insurance company’s potential conflict of interest when it denies an employee’s health or disability benefits claim. The lawyer representing...
Mich. Supreme Court Limits Time to Sue Insurers
May 5 2008 // The Michigan Supreme Court on April 23rd struck down a legal precedent that generally gave motorists more time to sue their insurance company for unpaid claims under some circumstances. The 4-3 ruling follows similar...
Insurer Group Criticizes Michigan House Legislative Proposals
May 2 2008 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) criticized the legislative actions of the Michigan House Democrats’ claiming the proposals do little to address the flaws in the state’s insurance market. “Once...
