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Also, Phillip Hill was elected chief financial officer and vice president of operations. Hill has been part of Ogilvy-Hi

Sep 4 2006 // People Ogilvy-Hill Insurance elected Mark Shipp president and CEO. Shipp has been with Ogilvy Hill for 11 years. In addition to his new role as president/CEO he will continue to build new relationships in the field. The...

UPDATE 5: Ernesto Strikes Carolinas; Heads Northwest

Sep 1 2006 // Tropical Storm Ernesto made landfall near Cape Fear along the coast of North Carolina at around 11:30 p.m. last night, lashing the region with high winds and heavy rains. More than eight inches/20.32 cms of rain reportedly...

UPDATE 3: Florida Breathes a Sigh of Relief as Ernesto Fizzles

Aug 30 2006 // Despite some scattered power cuts and a lot of rain, Tropical Storm Ernesto has proved to be more of an inconvenience than a disaster for most Florida residents. Ernesto went from a tropical depression to the...

Sorry, Catbert! Study Shows Cutting Employee Incentives Hurts

Aug 30 2006 // Contrary to the nefarious plots of Catbert, the ‘evil director of human resources’ character depicted in the popular Dilbert comic strip, a study of nearly 20,000 organizations shows that employee incentives...

Hiscox Launches New D&O Policy

Aug 29 2006 // The U.K.’s Hiscox Insurance Co. has launched of a new management liability policy developed to cover the liabilities of U.K. companies, their directors and employees. Hiscox said it had revamped the coverage...

UPDATE 1: Hurricane Ernesto Menaces Haiti, Cuba; Florida in Storm’s Path

Aug 27 2006 // As of 11:00 am EDT, when the National Hurricane Center in Miami issued its latest bulletin, Tropical Storm Ernesto had become a Category 1 hurricane, the first of the current season. The hurricane’s center was...

Beecher Carlson Names Warren Managing Director

Aug 22 2006 // Beecher Carlson, an insurance brokerage and risk management consulting firm, has promoted Janet Warren to managing director and national claims leader. In this role, Warren will be responsible for the management and...

Golf Course Risks and Greek Mythology?

Aug 21 2006 // Golf and Country Clubs First task. Impress the readers. Risk management is a Sisyphean challenge. First task accomplished? Probably not yet. Let me continue. In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was a deceitful king who was...

Film exposures: managing the risk of making a movie

Aug 21 2006 // Creating a Hollywood movie is not always as glamorous as it sounds. The average cost for a Hollywood movie is tallied at $60 million, and the payoff is not realized until viewers show up to view the final product on the...

Golf Course Risks and Greek Mythology

Aug 21 2006 // In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was a deceitful king who was condemned to spend eternity pushing a giant boulder up a mountain. As Sisyphus approached the peak of the mountain, the rock would elude him and roll back down to...

London’s Web Connectivity Appoints Willison New Managing Director

Aug 15 2006 // London-based Web Connectivity, which provides solutions for data transformation and exchange, has appointed James Willison as Managing Director with a mandate “to drive its business offerings in the London Insurance...

White Mountains Re Names New Execs

Aug 8 2006 // Bermuda-based White Mountains Re, Ltd., the reinsurance unit of the White Mountains Insurance Group, announced several senior management appointments as follows: “Chuck Chokel, previously Managing Director and...

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Aug 7 2006 // FleetRisk Advisors appointed David C. Wagner president and chief operating officer. Wagner previously worked at FleetRisk Advisors from 2004 to 2005 as senior vice president, field operations. Wagner possesses more than 20...

Mich. Burns & Wilcox Adds New Director of Branch Development

Aug 4 2006 // Farmington Hills, Mich.-based national specialty insurance wholesaler, underwriter and managing general agent Burns & Wilcox, has hired Paul Anderson, CPCU, ARM, AIM, to serve as the company’s director of branch...

Agents Again Urge Passage of Surplus Lines Reform Legislation

Jul 25 2006 // As the Non-Admitted and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2006 (HR 5637) makes its way to full committee of the U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services, the American Association of Managing General Agents sent a call to...

Why surplus lines reform makes sense in 2006

Jul 24 2006 // The AAMGA is an international trade association comprised of 503 member agents, brokers, insurance, captive and reinsurance companies, Lloyd’s of London syndicates and underwriters, state stamping and surplus line...

Why surplus lines reform makes sense in 2006

Jul 24 2006 // The American Association of Managing General Agents (AAMGA) commends efforts to modernize commercial insurance markets while maintaining the state-based system of insurance regulation and the surplus lines market’s...

Why surplus lines reform makes sense in 2006

Jul 24 2006 // The AAMGA is an international trade association comprised of 503 member agents, brokers, insurance, captive and reinsurance companies, Lloyd’s of London syndicates and underwriters, state stamping and surplus line...

Jul 24 2006 // People Minneapolis, Minn.-based ING named Susan Anderson president and CEO of ING Trust USA. Anderson will lead the growth and development of personal trust and directed institutional trusts nationally. She has 15 years of...

Why surplus lines reform makes sense in 2006

Jul 24 2006 // The American Association of Managing General Agents (AAMGA) commends efforts to modernize commercial insurance markets while maintaining the state-based system of insurance regulation and the surplus lines market’s...