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One-on-one interviews with 15 insurance regulators
Feb 12 2007 // One-on-one interviews with 15 insurance regulators At a recent meeting of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, Insurance Journal sat down with 15 insurance regulators to talk about issues affecting their...
News Currents
Feb 11 2007 // Royal & Sun management buyout approval expected A state hearing officer recommended that Delaware’s insurance commissioner approve the proposed management buyout and eventual dissolution of Royal & Sun...
Howard Mills, New York, Insurance Commissioner
Feb 11 2007 // Howard Mills, formerly an elected state representative, served the State of New York as its appointed insurance superintendent for the last two years. He stepped in to fill the shoes of Greg Serio when he departed and...
New York – Howard Mills
Feb 11 2007 // Looking back on his two-year tenure, former New York Superintendent of Insurance Howard Mills says he thinks insurance actions by his own and other states’ attorneys general came about because there was a vacuum in...
Scaffold Deaths Move N.Y. City Officials to Push Safety Measures
Feb 9 2007 // An alarming number of accidents occurred on scaffolding suspended from the tops of skyscrapers in New York City last year, city officials said this week as they presented several measures intended to improve safety. In...
Ohio ProCentury Management to Present at N.Y. Conference
Feb 9 2007 // Columbus, Ohio-based ProCentury Corp.has announced that its management team is scheduled to present at the New York Society of Security Analysts’ 11th Annual Insurance Industry Conference in New York City on Monday,...
Wholesaler S.H. Smith Adds Dalmata to Team for Vt., N.Y.
Feb 8 2007 // Carl Leslie “Les” Dalmata has been appointed regional marketing manager for S. H Smith & Co., Inc., a national excess and surplus lines broker. Located in the firm’s Utica, New York, office, Dalmata...
Dow Jones Forms N.Y. Captive
Feb 7 2007 // The New York State Insurance Department has licensed Bergstresser Insurance, Inc., as a captive insurance company. Bergstresser will insure the risks of Dow Jones & Co., the business and financial publishing company...
Medical Malpractice Risk Retention Group Launched in N.Y.
Feb 7 2007 // J. M. Woodworth Risk Retention Group has registered with the New York Insurance Department to offer medical malpractice insurance to physicians and surgeons in the state. “The RRG provides New York doctors the first...
City Disaster Teams Share Lessons from Terrorist Attacks
Feb 5 2007 // Government and American Red Cross disaster experts from New York, London and Madrid — three cities hit by terrorist attacks in recent years — met last week in New York for a two-day conference to share experiences and...
Royal & Sun Management Buyout Clears Hurdle; Final OK Expected
Feb 5 2007 // A state hearing officer recommended Friday that Delaware’s insurance commissioner approve the proposed management buyout and eventual dissolution of Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Group’s U.S....
Washington Commissioner Issues Multiple Fines, Enforcement Actions
Jan 31 2007 // Washington’s Office of the Insurance Commissioner has ordered UnitedHealthcare Insurance Co. of Minneapolis to pay a $59,000 fine following an agency investigation into the company’s use of unapproved contracts...
N.Y. Agents Award Scholarship Named in Kozel’s Honor to Bresin
Jan 31 2007 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc. announced that Amanda Bresin received its Bernard I. Kozel Memorial Scholarship award. Bresin is a marketing and customer service representative for Garber Atlas...
Jimcor’s Swartwout Receives Moll Scholarship from N.Y. Agents
Jan 30 2007 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc. announced that Jennifer Swartwout received its Arthur I. Moll Memorial Scholarship award. Swartwout is an assistant underwriter for Jimcor Agencies Inc. in...
Industry leaders debate regulation in wake of Democratic Congress shift
Jan 29 2007 // The Professional Liability Underwriting Society held its international conference in Chicago in late 2006. Moderating a conference panel, television journalist Forrest Sawyer, a 24-year veteran of ABC, CBS and MSNBC,...
Industry leaders debate federal vs. state regulation with Democratic Congress shift
Jan 29 2007 // The Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS) held its international conference in Chicago in late 2006. Moderating the panel was television journalist Forrest Sawyer, a 24-year veteran of ABC, CBS and MSNBC, who...
It Figures
Jan 29 2007 // $445 Billion Nearly half a billion dollars will be given to U.S. cities and regions to help reduce the risk of terror attacks on ports, transit systems and chemical plants, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff...
People and Places
Jan 29 2007 // Citizens Property Insurance Corp.’s board of governors voted unanimously to recommend interim President Scott Wallace be appointed to the post permanently. Wallace was selected from more than 70 candidates by a...
Bond Insurer MBIA to Pay $75 Million to End Reinsurance Probe
Jan 29 2007 // MBIA Corp., a large insurer of municipal bonds, has agreed to pay $75 million to settle an investigation by federal and New York state authorities into its accounting for a 1998 transaction, people familiar with the matter...
