Latest Insurance Journal Headlines
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People, partnerships lead to nearly a century of success
Nov 19 2006 // Good people can make or break a company. In San Diego-based Barney & Barney’s case, it’s clearly made it; the company has been in business for nearly a century, thanks to people who have invested their...
The Future for Agents’ E & O
Oct 9 2006 // David Duncan of David C. Duncan Insurance Services in Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif., is worried about whether and how much the cost of his agency errors and omissions insurance might go up next year. Duncan started his...
The Future for Agents’ E&O
Oct 9 2006 // David Duncan of David C. Duncan Insurance Services in Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif., is worried about whether and how much the cost of his agency errors and omissions insurance might go up next year. Duncan started his...
Insurance Journal Series ‘The Commissioners’ Presents Interviews with 15 State Regulators
Jul 28 2006 // Reinsurance collateral, natural disaster plans, brokerage compensation disclosure, credit scoring, competition for insurance jobs—state insurance regulators across the country deal with these and many other...
Insurance Journal Presents Video Interviews with 15 State Insurance Commissioners
Jul 27 2006 // Reinsurance collateral, natural disaster plans, brokerage compensation disclosure, credit scoring, competition for insurance jobs—state insurance regulators across the country deal with these and many other...
Crist, Fritschi & Paterson underscores value of relationships
Jul 24 2006 // Best Practices is an Insurance Journal column that highlights how some of the nation’s top-performing agencies run their operations. Insurance Journal Publisher Mark Wells recently interviewed Jack Fritschi, CEO of...
Business Moves
Jul 24 2006 // Starr Aviation Agency, Chubb Starr Aviation Agency Inc., a wholly-owned specialty subsidiary of C.V. Starr & Co. Inc. and The Chubb Corp. entered into an underwriting agreement under which Chubb will provide hull and...
Workplace Bullies May Be Next On Insurers’ Watchlist, Insurance Journal Reports
Jun 20 2006 // From the playground to the classroom to the office — bullies can be found in all walks of life, but new anti-harassment legislation in some states could put an end to bullying in the workplace that can be costly for...
What Happens If P/C Industry Catches the Flu; Program Best Practices; Giant Program Guide Highlight IJ Magazine
May 23 2006 // The potential exposures for the property casualty insurance industry have fallen under the radar in the discussions of the effects of an Avian flu or other pandemic. Most people keeping watch on the possible effects have...
Insurance Journal Reports on How Zurich Pacts Affect Agents; Promise of Mid-Sized D&O Market
Apr 4 2006 // Independent agents representing Zurich Insurance in the U.S. will have to disclose their income before binding any commercial lines policies for Zurich and some Zurich agents may be denied contingency compensation under...
Agents and Brokers: Deadline to Submit for IJ’s Top 100, March 31
Mar 28 2006 // Insurance Journal’s search for the nation’s top independent insurance agencies and brokerages is winding down with just a few days left for qualified firms to send in their entry forms. The final deadline is...
Search for Nation’s Top Independent Agencies Continues
Mar 16 2006 // With some 60,000 privately held independent agencies and brokerages nationwide, locating the most successful ones is a tough job but some company’s got to do it. That company is Insurance Journal. Insurance Journal...
Agents and Brokers: Top 10 Reasons to Join the Top 100 … and Let Your Success be Known
Mar 9 2006 // Insurance Journal’s search for the nation’s top privately-owned independent insurance agencies and brokerages has begun but some qualified firms have not yet sent in their entry forms. The final deadline has...
Enhanced IJ Broadcasting Enlivens Web Content with Interviews, Videos, Ads and More
Jan 9 2006 // Insurance Journal has launched IJ Broadcasting, an enhanced section on its Web site for multimedia content that will include video and audio interviews, current news and features, educational workshops and other...
How Producers Build Up Construction Insurance Business
Jan 5 2006 // Insurance producers land new accounts every day. But successfully building a solid block of business from one new account does not happen every day, particularly in the field of construction insurance. Dave Sinclair of...
New Year’s resolutions
Jan 2 2006 // Happy New Year. As tradition has it, the start of the new year is a popular time to make resolutions to be better. And for 2006, the Insurance Journal staff has vowed to do just that. If you peer past the first few pages...
Editor’s Note: New Year’s resolutions
Jan 1 2006 // Happy New Year. As tradition has it, the start of the new year is a popular time to make resolutions to be better. And for 2006, the Insurance Journal staff has vowed to do just that. If you peer past the first few pages...
Take Insurance Journal’s Agency Automation Survey
Dec 29 2005 // Insurance Journal is working with Kinetic Information LLC to study how independent insurance agents and brokers are approaching agency automation. The results will appear as an exclusive article in Insurance Journal early...
Independent Agents Feel Hurricane Katrina’s Full Force
Dec 19 2005 // Residents in many areas of the Gulf Coast watched their lives change forever on Aug. 29, 2005. When all was said and done, Hurricane Katrina went in the record books as the country’s worst natural disaster, leaving a...
By Dave Thomas
Dec 18 2005 // Residents in many areas of the Gulf Coast watched their lives change forever on Aug. 29, 2005. When all was said and done, Hurricane Katrina went in the record books as the country’s worst natural disaster, leaving a...
