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Optional federal charter is needed

Jul 24 2006 // Editor’s note: The following excerpt is edited from an oral statement made by Joseph J. Beneducci, president of Fireman’s Fund at the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee’s July 11 hearing...

Optional federal charter is needed

Jul 24 2006 // Editor’s note: The following excerpt is edited from an oral statement made by Joseph J. Beneducci, president of Fireman’s Fund at the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee’s July 11 hearing...

Optional federal charter is needed

Jul 24 2006 // Editor’s note: The following excerpt is edited from an oral statement made by Joseph J. Beneducci, president of Fireman’s Fund at the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee’s July 11 hearing...

Optional federal charter is needed

Jul 24 2006 // Editor’s note: The following excerpt is edited from an oral statement made by Joseph J. Beneducci, president of Fireman’s Fund at the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee’s July 11 hearing...

Travelers ‘CD’ Targets Risk Control for Tech Firms

Jul 21 2006 // Travelers has created a new CD, “The Best of Technology Risk Control,” to assist technology businesses seeking information on topics such as business continuity, workers’ compensation and manufacturing...

The Hartford Expands Professional Liability Product for Tech Firms

Jul 17 2006 // Connecticut-based The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. has announced that its member companies have expanded the policy limits available to customers from $1 million to $2 million on The Hartford’s FailSafe...

Shreveport, La., Police Using High-Tech Cars as Bait

Jul 10 2006 // Cars donated by insurance companies around the state will soon be put out as bait for Shreveport, La.’s thieves. They’ll be left out on the street as soon as officers can be taught how to use their high-tech...

The right time to begin

Jul 4 2006 // Nearly five years ago, a group of program specialists gathered in Tempe, Ariz., for the first summit meeting of a budding industry organization called the Target Markets Program Administrators Association. The brainchild...

In N.H.’s positive climate, insurers free to focus on competition and technology

Jun 19 2006 // News Currents Insurers find the political and regulatory environment in New Hampshire favorable. “[I]t’s clear that in New Hampshire, we have a different marketplace than the other New England states....

AI Risk-Brownyard Program Eyes Small, Medium Security Firms

Jun 16 2006 // AI Risk, Lexington Insurance’s middle market unit, has selected Brownyard Programs, Ltd to bring AIG’s GuardSecure product to the small and intermediate-sized private security companies throughout the U.S. The...

AIG Subsidiary Launches Multi-Line Education Insurance Program

Jun 2 2006 // AI Risk, a member company of American International Group Inc. (AIG), has launched AI Risk Education Program, a multi-line property and casualty program for private primary schools, colleges and universities. The AI Risk...

Learn the skills to become a 21st century leader

May 22 2006 // A common complaint among executives throughout the world is the changing work ethic and lack of commitment by employees. With the lack of leadership evident today, it is amazing that any work ethic or commitment by...

Learn the skills to become a 21st century leader

May 22 2006 // A common complaint among executives throughout the world is the changing work ethic and lack of commitment by employees. With the lack of leadership evident today, it is amazing that any work ethic or commitment by...

Ind. Family and Social Services Schedule Public Meetings on Uninsured

Apr 20 2006 // The Indiana Family and Social Services Administration will begin a series of 13 public meetings over the next seven weeks to discuss the issue of uninsured Indiana residents. The meetings will begin the first week of May...

JLT Expands Lloyd’s Security/Privacy; Adds U.S. E&O Tech Coverage

Apr 4 2006 // JLT Risk Solutions Ltd;, part of London-based global broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc, announced a significantly expanded insurance program within the Lloyd’s of London market “to provide security and...

TDI’s Selden explains department’s high tech, high touch approach

Apr 3 2006 // Texas Department of Insurance Senior Associate Commis-sioner for Consumer Affairs Audrey Selden had a good news/bad news story for the insurance industry when she spoke at the Austin Insurance Day, sponsored in early March...

Agency Technology Summit to Teach Ga. Agents About Latest Hi-Tech Tools

Mar 17 2006 // An inside look at how to operate an agency more efficiently using technology will be presented March 28 during an “Agency Technology Summit” conducted in by Andy Siegel in Doraville, Ga. The Independent...

AUGIE Extends National Tech Survey Deadline Through March 19

Mar 7 2006 // In order to get the best possible results from this national survey, the ACORD-User Groups Information Exchange (AUGIE) has extended the period for agents, CSRs and other agency staff to complete the Agency Technology...

Agents push for a technological sea change

Mar 6 2006 // Tides continue to turn on the automation frontier and agents and brokers riding the waves may be pushing a sea change in the way they communicate with insurance carriers, according to the results of a recent survey of...

Al RiskSM Unveils Special Events Liability Insurance with AD&D Coverage

Feb 14 2006 // The AI RiskSM Specialist Insurance Inc., a member company of American International Group, Inc. (AIG), has introduced a Special Events Liability Insurance Program that provides both general liability and accidental death...