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The Four C’s of Risk Management for Oil and Gas Operator – Managing Contracts

Dec 5 2005 // Editor’s note: This is the second article in a series on risk management for oil and gas operators. The first article appeared in the Aug. 22, 2005, issue of Insurance Journal West region edition on page 66. In the...

Dec 4 2005 // Burns & Wilcox, a national specialty insurance managing general agency, has promoted Wayne Bates to director of the company’s Special Risk Division (SRD), International and promoted him to associate vice...

Dec 4 2005 // The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research, Austin, Texas, has announced that two outstanding customer service representatives have received its National Outstanding CSR of the Year Award for 2005:...

The Four C’s of Risk Management for Oil and Gas Operator – Managing Contracts

Dec 4 2005 // Editor’s note: This is the second article in a series on risk management for oil and gas operators. The first article appeared in the Aug. 22, 2005, issue of Insurance Journal West region edition on page 66. In the...

Smaller and Regional Programs: Proven Exercises

Dec 4 2005 // Pumped for profit Robin C. Brennan knows fuel dealers. She’s been handling their insurance needs since 1998. Brennan is a vice president with the Managing Agency Group in Hartford, Conn., a subsidiary of Hilb Rogal...

People

Dec 4 2005 // GAB Robins, the international claims services firm, announced that Edward G. Troy has been named president and chief executive officer of the GAB Robins Group of Companies. Before joining GAB Robins, Troy served as...

Whipp, Bleisnick Join Guy Carpenter

Nov 29 2005 // Guy Carpenter & Company Inc. announced that Scott Whipp has joined the company’s Professional Liability Specialty Practice as a managing director and will lead its medical malpractice group and that Michael...

Whittington to Set up New Singapore Insurer

Nov 18 2005 // The insurance division of the Omni Whittington Group is to demerge and will benefit from a major injection of expansion capital. A new holding company, Whittington Group Pte Limited, will be domiciled in Singapore with net...

Integro Opens Atlanta Office

Nov 9 2005 // Integro has announced that Frank Kinnett has joined the company to lead the firm’s insurance brokerage operations in the Southeast from a newly established office in Atlanta. Kinnett is joined by Quill O. Healey, who...

Vitalone Named Resident Managing Director, Aon Risk Services Washington

Nov 9 2005 // Aon has appointed Gary Vitalone resident managing director of Aon Risk Services Washington. In this role Vitalone will be responsible for brokerage services of property & casualty insurance, and risk management...

Value Added Services Stand Out from the Pack

Nov 7 2005 // Most consumers buy on price and not value. True or False? The vast majority of insurance salespeople would tend to believe there is a lot of truth in the above statement–despite any well-programmed responses from...

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Nov 6 2005 // ACE USA announced two appointments in its ACE Casualty Risk Unit. William Hazelton has joined as senior vice president and underwriting manager for ACE Environ-mental Risk, and Mitchell Schmidt is now senior vice president...

Value Added Services Stand Out from the Pack

Nov 6 2005 // For most firms, the insurance consumer will not see any major value difference between agencies. Because products, price and service are roughly the same, sales people are forced to sell on rapport, relationships and sales...

Beta Batters Nicaragua

Oct 31 2005 // Hurricane Beta came ashore Saturday on Nicaragua’s Eastern coast about 60 miles (100 kms) south of Puerto Cabezas with winds up to 110 mph (175 km hr). The storm tore the roofs off many buildings, uprooted trees and...

Aon Names DeCoster Resident Managing Director for Ga. Operations

Oct 20 2005 // Aon announced the appointment of Richard (Rick) DeCoster as resident managing director of Aon Risk Services of Georgia. As resident managing director, DeCoster is responsible for brokerage services of property/casualty...

RLI Hires Fick to Lead H.R.

Oct 19 2005 // Illinois-based RLI Corp. has hired Jeffrey Fick to serve as vice president of human resources. Fick will oversee RLI human resources and administrative activities. Fick comes to RLI with 19 years’ experience as an...

Managing Co-Owner Dismissed

Oct 17 2005 // The managing co-owner in The Leavitt Group’s Albuquerque office has been dismissed for reported misrepresentations made in proposals to 20 current or former clients over a six-year period. The misrepresentations were...

Managing Co-Owner Dismissed

Oct 17 2005 // Man Fined For Workers’ Comp Fraud A San Diego County Superior Court judge has sentenced Kevin Vint, 50, of Del Mar, Calif., to three years formal probation for conspiracy to commit workers’ compensation...

San Francisco-based Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. announced that William Dougherty has joined the firm as an Account Executive w

Oct 17 2005 // Hilb Rogal and Hobbs Company, headquartered in Glen Allen, Va., has appointed Michael Crowley to the position of president. In that role, Crowley will have overall responsibility for profit and loss, revenue growth,...

RMS Creates Online Terrorism and Security Risk Manager

Oct 12 2005 // Risk Management Solutions (RMS), Newark, Calif., has announced the launch of a Terrorism and Security Risk Manager online service, a new information source for insurers writing global terrorism risk. The service is...