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Lowering the Bar
Aug 23 2004 // The American Association of Trial Lawyers held its annual convention in Boston early last month. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer was among the speakers. The following is an exchange of e-mails between ATLA and yours...
ICT Symposium Focused on Regulation, State of the Market and More
Aug 23 2004 // Attendees at the 12th Annual Mid-Year Property and Casualty Symposium presented in July by the Insurance Council of Texas and the Association of Fire and Casualty Companies in Texas (AFACT) were treated to a series of...
NCOIL Accepts NAIC Changes to Market Conduct Model
Aug 23 2004 // Under heavy pressure from Congress and insurance industry lobbyists to pick up the pace on regulatory modernization, the National Conference of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL) accepted most of the changes to its market...
Changing the Face of California’s Insurance Marketplace
Aug 23 2004 // IBA West’s O’Kane Reflects Back on 22-Year Tenure There are few people in the insurance industry that have truly made an impact on behalf of independent agents and brokers. Jerry O’Kane is one of those...
America’s Trial Lawyers to Insurance Journal: Drop Dead
Aug 23 2004 // The American Association of Trial Lawyers (ATLA) held its annual convention in Boston early this month. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer was among the speakers. The following is an exchange of e-mails between...
Bracing for the Worst: Industry Prepares for Another Wildfire Season
Aug 23 2004 // The fire season started early this year. Wildfires erupted all over California and in Nevada in mid-July, forcing thousands to evacuate and destroying several homes and outbuildings. Affected areas in California included...
‘Round and ‘Round the Cycle Goes, Where it Stops Nobody Knows
Aug 9 2004 // Like the wheels of Lance Armstrong’s bike—a blur of perpetual motion as he powered up mountain after mountain in the Tour de France—the non-stop cycle of the property/casualty insurance market continues on its...
InVEST Awards Scholarship to San Diego Resident
Aug 5 2004 // InVEST, an education program that strengthens the insurance industry by assembling a diverse group of high school and community college students and shaping them into insurance professionals and informed consumers,...
Merin Joins Ebix Board
Jul 29 2004 // Atlanta-based Ebix Inc., an international developer and supplier of software and e-commerce solutions to the insurance industry, announced the appointment of Kenneth Merin, an attorney with approximately 30 years of...
Fitch: Reinsurance Sector Rating Outlook Revised from Negative to Stable
Jul 27 2004 // Fitch Ratings has revised its Rating Outlook for the global reinsurance sector to Stable from Negative. Prior to this change, Fitch had maintained a Negative Rating Outlook on the sector since 2001. Fitch’s revised...
A.M. Best Report: Canada’s P/C Industry Rebounded Strongly in 2003
Jul 27 2004 // As 2002 fades from memory as the worst performance year by the Canadian property/casualty insurance industry, 2003, on the other hand, will be remembered for the industry’s return to underwriting profitability and...
IHI Insurance Services, Cal State Fullerton Develop Claims Examiner Education Program
Jul 27 2004 // In an effort to curb an impending crisis, the University Extended Education department at Cal State Fullerton announced that it has started accepting registrations for the Fall 2004 semester for the State University...
America’s Trial Lawyers to Insurance Journal: Drop Dead
Jul 26 2004 // The American Association of Trial Lawyers held its annual convention in Boston early this month. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer was among the speakers. The following is an exchange of emails between ATLA’s...
Florida Senator Bill Nelson Continues to Fly New Missions
Jul 19 2004 // Flying New Missions Bill Nelson As his bio notes, as a child Florida Senator Bill Nelson never imagined that one day he would both catapult into space from a NASA launch site just miles from his grandfather’s...
Lowering the Bar
Jul 19 2004 // The American Association of Trial Lawyers held its annual convention in Boston early this month. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer was among the speakers. The following is an exchange of e-mails between ATLA and yours...
Will Senator Edwards Be on Trial’
Jul 19 2004 // In making his choice in a running mate earlier this month, Massachusetts Senator and Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has gone for a man who is no stranger to the courtrooms. North Carolina Senator John Edwards...
China Wakes Up as the World Watches
Jul 19 2004 // This is the first in a series of articles on the Asia insurance marketplace. Part two in this series will focus on India and will appear in a September issue of Insurance Journal. “Let China Sleep, for when she...
NCOIL Task Force Backs TRIA Extension; Market Conduct Model Next on Agenda
Jul 16 2004 // CHICAGO―A National Conference of Insurance Legislators’ (NCOIL) task force unanimously approved a resolution to extend the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) “for a sufficient period of time to permit...
Acadia President Receives ICT’s Raymond Mauk Award
Jul 16 2004 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) presented Bill Thornton, president of Acadia Insurance Company in Westbrook, Maine, with the Raymond Mauk Leadership Award at the ICT’s 12th Annual Mid-Year Property and Casualty...
Former Industry Executive to Lead Ky. Office of Insurance
Jul 15 2004 // Martin Koetters of Louisville, a former insurance industry executive with 34 years of experience in the field, has been named executive director of the Kentucky Office of Insurance. Koetters held several insurance...
