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Guy Carpenter Report Updates Roles in Managing Terror Risk
Jul 30 2002 // Success in managing terror risk will come only through unprecedented collatoration between the public and private sectors, and the insurance and reinsurance industries must play a leading role as the tools to assess,...
CPCU Job Network
Jul 22 2002 // The CPCU Society recently introduced its redesigned Web site, www.cpcusociety.org. The updated Web site corresponds with the launch of the new CPCU Job Network, an online employment resource for recruiters, employers, and...
CPCU Society’s Redesigned Web Site Features Career Management Tool
Jul 1 2002 // The CPCU Society recently introduced its redesigned Web site, www.cpcusociety.org. The updated Web site corresponds with the launch of the new CPCU Job Network, an online employment resource for recruiters, employers, and...
Guy Carpenter Names Martin Markoff as European Managing Director
Jun 28 2002 // Guy Carpenter &. Company, Inc., the global risk and reinsurance division of Marsh & McLennan, announced the appointment of Martin Markoff, 44, as Managing Director for its Continental Europe operations. “In...
Don’t Quit Your Day Job
Jun 10 2002 // Following an investigation by the CDI Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division, Todd Owen Balcom was arrested at his residence in Port Hueneme pursuant to an arrest warrant issued by Ventura County Superior...
IIAT’s Stromberger Plans to Gather no Moss
Jun 10 2002 // Upon his retirement as the executive director of the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas later this summer, Ernie Stromberger has no intention of resting long enough to gather any moss. Instead, travel, time with family...
Workers’ Compensation Fund Installs HNC Claims Advisor for Subrogation
Jun 3 2002 // San Diego-based HNC Software Inc., a provider of high-end analytics and decision management software, announced that Workers Compensation Fund, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, has installed HNC Claims Advisor for...
George Hogue: Perfect for the Job
May 27 2002 // We tried to get George Hogue to come to the IIAT convention in June so we could give him a plaque and a round of applause, but he won’t be there. He made other plans. And besides, he doesn’t like to call...
George Hogue: Perfect for the Job
May 27 2002 // We tried to get George Hogue to come to the IIAT convention in June so we could give him a plaque and a round of applause, but he won’t be there. He made other plans. And besides, he doesn’t like to call...
AXA to Cut 700-1000 Jobs in U.K. P/C Unit Restructuring
May 15 2002 // France’s AXA announced plans to undertake a wholesale restructuring of its p/c operations in the U.K. which will eventually involve the loss of between 700 and 1000 jobs. The job cuts are aimed at stopping the losses...
The Illusion of Protection: Terrorism, War and Workers’ Compensation
Apr 15 2002 // The impact of the terrorist attacks of September 11th on the property/casualty insurance industry can hardly be overstated—the largest catastrophe loss ever; an unprecedented convergence of coverages, creating a...
EQECAT Developing Compensation Loss Cost Models for WCIRB
Apr 4 2002 // EQECAT Inc. has been awarded a contract to develop the earthquake loss costs for the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau (WCIRB) of California. The loss costs are to be incorporated into their rate filing...
Calif. Workers’ Compensation Medical Payments on the Rise
Apr 3 2002 // The average medical payment per workers’ compensation claim in California has been increasing significantly in recent years mainly as a result of more visits to non-hospital providers and rising hospital costs,...
It’s no Accident, But is There Coverage’
Mar 11 2002 // Back in the early years of insurance, some great sage recognized that insurance should not apply to damages for the intentional conduct of the insured. Thus, murderers cannot buy murderer’s liability insurance and...
It’s no Accident, But is There Coverage’
Mar 11 2002 // Back in the early years of insurance, some great sage recognized that insurance should not apply to damages for the intentional conduct of the insured. Thus, murderers cannot buy murderer’s liability insurance and...
Workers’ Compensation
Feb 25 2002 // Nuts & Bolts: Regency Pacific Insurance Services has available a workers’ compensation program. Appointment as a broker. Dollars: Various minimum premiums. Carrier: Everest National. Admitted. Rated “A+...
Workers’ Compensation A Thorn in Side of U.S. Companies
Jan 24 2002 // Workers’ compensation, one of the insurance lines most acutely affected by the terrorism of 2001 and by the continued absence of government backstop insurance for terrorism events, is fast becoming a high-priced...
Controversy Erupts Over Terms of WTC Victims’ Compensation Fund
Jan 7 2002 // No sooner had Special Master Kenneth Feinberg announced the rules governing payments by the Victims’ Compensation Fund, established by the federal government to compensate the survivors and the families of victims of...
SurePath 3.0 Offering Tools for Processing, Managing Surety Bonds
Jan 3 2002 // California-based InSure Vision Technologies (IVT) has announced the availability of SurePath 3.0, its flagship product for processing and managing both paper-based and electronic surety bonds. Pam Stocks, InSure Vision...
Even in Paradise, A Job to Do
Nov 12 2001 // Eating papaya and drinking coffee, we relaxed on the terrace in front of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel on Waikiki Beach. It was hard to believe we were getting ready to listen to straight talk about some of the most disastrous...
