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Applicant Attorneys Desperate to Maintain Job Killing Work Comp System
Mar 22 2004 // Applicant attorneys, labor and industrial physicians are attempting to divert attention from the real cost drivers in California’s workers’ compensation system. Despite overwhelming evidence from the Insurance...
National Life of Vermont Begins Job Cuts
Mar 19 2004 // The company that is taking over the information services technology division at National Life Insurance Co. in Montpelier has begun telling employees who will keep their jobs and who will be let go. Of the 90 information...
Building Agency Value Through Perpetuation
Mar 8 2004 // The number of independent insurance agencies with revenue greater than $250,000 dwindled to 20,066 in 2000, from 35,000 in 1990. By 2010, the number of agencies will decline to less than 12,000. While some portion of...
Bob Bullivant New Managing Director of CII, SOFA
Feb 16 2004 // The U.K.’s Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) announced the appointment of Bob Bullivant as the new managing director of the Society of Financial Advisers (SOFA) – the CII’s financial services arm...
XL in Partnership with City of Zurich to Provide Career Education Program
Feb 5 2004 // Bermuda’s XL Capital Ltd. announced that its global Property and Casualty insurance subsidiary, XL Insurance Switzerland (XLIS), is to fund a career education program developed and offered by the Careers Guidance...
Controlling Medical Costs in Workers’ Compensation
Jan 26 2004 // Rising healthcare costs are recognized as a key problem in the workers’ compensation industry. Medical costs once constituted 30 percent of the total workers’ comp claims expenses; today, however, they...
MDIA Announces Workers’ Compensation Costs Containment
Jan 23 2004 // Woodland Hills, Calif.-based Medical Diagnostic Associates, A Medical Corporation (MDIA), a leading national provider of Network Diagnostic Services, the expansion of its unique, high-quality Second Opinion program,...
Robert Goodman Joins Rothschild As a Managing Director-Insurance Sector
Jan 19 2004 // Robert Goodman, a veteran investment banker who specializes in the insurance sector, has joined Rothschild as a Managing Director in its Financial Institutions Group based in New York. Gerald Rosenfeld, CEO of Rothschild...
Slow Ill. Job Market May Mean Less P/C Growth
Jan 12 2004 // The 2000 census estimated Illinois’ population at 12.4 million. More than 81 percent of the adult residents had graduated from high school and over 26 percent had earned a bachelor’s degree. Chicago’s 2.9...
The Right Man for the Right Job
Jan 12 2004 // An Exclusive Interview with Gregory Serio Gregory V. Serio, the superintendent of the New York State Insurance Department, is a busy man—moving between Albany, Manhattan, Washington D.C. and elsewhere about the country....
Building Agency Value Through Perpetuation
Jan 12 2004 // Editor’s note: Agency perpetuation, or ownership succession for an agency, seems to be on the minds of many agency owners today. To address issues involved in planning for the transfer of agency ownership, the...
Workers’ Compensation Specialist Participates in Safety Presentation
Dec 16 2003 // John Bohn, Home Office Loss Control Specialist for GUARD Insurance Group, participated in a recent workshop entitled Safety at Work II: Risk Management Techniques for Small Business co-sponsored by the Occupational Safety...
Avoiding the Half-Million Dollar Mistake
Dec 15 2003 // Hiring the wrong producer is what I call a $500,000 mistake. In fact, in analyzing the fallout from hiring the wrong producer, the mistake can often be greater than one-half million dollars. Believe me, I’ve been...
Workers’ Compensation
Dec 15 2003 // Nuts & Bolts: Integrated Programs Insurance Inc. has a market for workers’ compensation. Dollars: Minimum premium of $10,000. Carrier: Rated “A IX.” States Available: All except California &...
A New Workers’ Compensation Insurer for Businesses Situated in New York State
Dec 9 2003 // First Pavilion Insurance Company published its intention to form a stock insurance corporation under the provisions of the Insurance Law of the State of New York. The Company plans to write excess insurance policies with a...
Avoiding the Half-Million Dollar Mistake
Dec 1 2003 // Hiring the wrong producer is what I call a $500,000 mistake. In fact, in analyzing the fallout from hiring the wrong producer, the mistake can often be greater than one-half million dollars. Believe me, I’ve been...
S&P Affirms American Compensation Insurance Co.’s ‘Bpi’ Rating
Nov 26 2003 // Standard & Poor’s has affirmed its ‘Bpi’ counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on Minnesota-based American Compensation Insurance Co. (American Compensation). The ratings reflect its...
Agency Salary Survey 2003
Nov 17 2003 // The following agency compensation survey and commentary appeared in the March 2003 Middleton Letter, which was previously published by the late Carol Hammes, and is now produced by Marsh, Berry & Co. Inc. in...
Incentive Programs Offer Alternative to Traditional Compensation
Nov 17 2003 // The insurance agency industry, like most other industries, has struggled with “merit” type compensation programs that attempt to reward employees based on the quality of their work effort. Unfortunately, in the...
Agency Salary Survey 2003
Nov 17 2003 // The following agency compensation survey and commentary appeared in the March 2003 Middleton Letter, which was previously published by the late Carol Hammes, and is now produced by Marsh, Berry & Co. Inc. in...
