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Critics allege wind modelers following politics over science
May 8 2006 // Risk Management Solutions has defended its hurricane risk models in the face of consumer groups’ criticisms that the models are more political than they are scientific and that they are designed to justify insurance...
Miss. lawmakers pass building code requirements for coastal counties
May 8 2006 // Progress was made this legislative session as Mississippi lawmakers passed requirements for tougher building codes and took steps to help ensure new construction in five coastal counties will better protect residents from...
Judge orders Southern Family rehabilitation
May 8 2006 // Leon County, Fla. Circuit Court Judge Thomas Bateman has ordered Southern Family Insurance Co., one of three financially-troubled property insurers of the Tampa-based Poe Financial Group into rehabilitation. To ensure the...
To bee or not to bee
May 8 2006 // Scientists at Cornell University in New York have come across a management strategy for group decision-making that is sure to set the business world buzzing. When 10,000 honeybees hunt for a new home, usually a tree...
Why agents oppose Sen. Sununu’s optional federal charter
May 8 2006 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America, and New Hampshire, (the Big “I”) strongly oppose S. 2509, the National Insurance Act of 2006, introduced recently by our own Sen. John Sununu (R-N.H.)...
Consumers, many departments required to fight identity theft
May 8 2006 // Editor’s Note: This is the second installment of a two-part roundtable discussion on identity theft. Part 1 examined the scope and source of identity theft, and can be found on page 100 of Insurance Journal’s...
Proposed Calif. regulations would stress driving record over zip code in pricing auto insurance
May 8 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has unveiled enhancements to his proposed regulations that he said follow through on the promise voters sought when they approved Proposition 103 in 1988 –TITLE:...
Governor claims Calif. workers’ comp changes ‘huge success’
May 8 2006 // California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared the sweeping workers’ compensation changes he pushed through the Legislature two years ago a “huge success,” but critics called them a disaster for injured...
Conn. moves to flex-rating for personal lines
May 8 2006 // Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell (R) is expected to sign into law a bill providing flex-rating for personal lines insurance. The measure permits insurers to adjust rates within a 6 percent flex band without first obtaining...
Why agents oppose Sen. Sununu’s optional federal charter
May 8 2006 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America, and New Hampshire, (the Big “I”) strongly oppose S. 2509, the National Insurance Act of 2006, introduced recently by our own Sen. John Sununu (R-N.H.)...
Gov. Baldacci signs Maine law in effort to curb uninsured motorist claims following court ruling
May 8 2006 // Maine Gov. John Baldacci signed into law legislation that promises to curtail the number of uninsured motorist claims. The new law will allow insurers to limit coverage for uninsured motorists to claims based on injuries...
Editor’s Note: To bee or not to bee
May 8 2006 // Scientists at Cornell University in New York have come across a management strategy for group decision-making that is sure to set the business world buzzing. When 10,000 honeybees hunt for a new home, usually a tree...
Mass. personal lines: a surplus of disagreement
May 8 2006 // Claims by Massachusetts regulators that the combined surplus of the insurers serving the state’s homeowners market is inadequate and that changing the auto system will help boost the homeowners market are untrue,...
Critics allege wind modelers following politics over science
May 8 2006 // News Currents Risk Management Solutions has defended its hurricane risk models in the face of consumer groups’ criticisms that the models are more political than they are scientific and that they are designed to...
Judge orders Southern Family rehabilitation
May 8 2006 // Leon County, Fla. Circuit Court Judge Thomas Bateman has ordered Southern Family Insurance Co., one of three financially-troubled property insurers of the Tampa-based Poe Financial Group into rehabilitation. To ensure the...
Critics allege wind modelers following politics over science
May 8 2006 // News Currents Risk Management Solutions has defended its hurricane risk models in the face of consumer groups’ criticisms that the models are more political than they are scientific and that they are designed to...
Miss. lawmakers pass building code requirements for coastal counties
May 8 2006 // Progress was made this legislative session as Mississippi lawmakers passed requirements for tougher building codes and took steps to help ensure new construction in five coastal counties will better protect residents from...
After the storms, 2006 a ‘critical’ year for Louisiana
May 8 2006 // The number of bills filed by members of the Louisiana Legislature for the regular session that began March 27 was relatively low, according to the Tatman Group’s David Tatman, a lobbyist for the Louisiana Surplus...
Texas lawmakers close in on tax reform
May 8 2006 // News Currents Adhering to the Texas Tax Reform Commission’s recommendations, five bills aimed at providing long-term property tax relief passed the Texas House of Representatives in late April. While the tax reform...
Why agents oppose Sen. Sununu’s optional federal charter
May 8 2006 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America, and New Hampshire, strongly oppose S. 2509, the National Insurance Act of 2006, introduced recently by our own Sen. John Sununu (R-N.H.) and his colleague, Sen....
