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Lloyd’s Web Site Summarizes Current Opinions on Climate Change
Jan 23 2009 // “The string of natural catastrophes that wreaked havoc in 2008, costing the global economy $225 billion and leaving insurers with their second costliest year in history, graphically highlights the increasing risks to...
Munich Re Webinar Provides Insights on Nat Cats, Industry Strength
Jan 16 2009 // Munich Re’s Webinar on Thursday – 2008 Natural Catastrophes – presented a detailed analysis of the increasing number of weather related events that concern both primary carriers and reinsurers. It also...
Engineers: New Jersey Entertainment Complex Site Is Contaminated
Jan 16 2009 // A report says the site of the giant Xanadu shopping and entertainment center under construction in the Meadowlands is contaminated. A project engineer says the environmental hazards could remain. The report, first...
Progressive Redesigns Agents’ Only Web Site
Jan 12 2009 // Progressive Insurance redesigned its Progressive Brand Express Web site for independent agents. The updated site – located on Progressive’s agency-dedicated Web site, ForAgentsOnly.com – gives agents...
U.S. Insurers Increasingly Outsourcing Actuarial Work to Overseas Talent
Dec 23 2008 // U.S. insurers and actuarial firms increasingly are outsourcing, offshoring, and importing actuarial talent from abroad, industry experts report. They are also learning that good management practices and an understanding of...
Texas Agent Group Revising Essentials Training Program
Dec 18 2008 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas is updating its training program designed to provide agents with a foundation in commercial and personal lines insurance. Beginning in January, IIAT is taking the best elements of...
FEMA to Close Last Katrina Mobile Home Site in Mississippi
Dec 10 2008 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency says the last of its group mobile home sites placed on the Mississippi Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina will soon close. Recently, two of the three remaining FEMA-built group sites...
Ohio Casualty Teams Up with National Alliance for Risk Managers Program
Dec 9 2008 // Fairfield, Ohio-based Ohio Casualty, a Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company, is teaming with The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research to offer its Certified School Risk Managers (CSRM)...
Doctors Still Sleep Deprived Despite Hours Cap: U.S. Report
Dec 8 2008 // Doctors-in-training are still too exhausted, says a new U.S. report that calls on hospitals to let them have a nap. Regulations that capped the working hours of bleary-eyed young doctors came just five years ago, limiting...
Wisconsin Agents Name New Director of Education and Membership
Dec 3 2008 // Martha Lester-Mittenzwei recently joined the Independent Insurance Agents of Wisconsin (IIAW) as its new director of Education and Membership. Mittenzwei began her insurance career in the agency ranks, working her way from...
Nation’s Fire Departments Face Challenges in Staffing, Water Access
Dec 2 2008 // Most U.S. fire departments call on neighboring communities to help them fight fires and the most significant reason for that is the need for more firefighters. Also, nearly one in six departments either has no water...
Montana Auditor Offers Education Program for Sandwich Generation
Dec 2 2008 // The Montana State Auditor’s Office has launched a new investor education program to provide members of the “Sandwich Generation” — adults who are raising children while taking care of aging parents...
People
Nov 30 2008 // Willis Group Holdings appointed Phillip Ellis leader of a new division focused on growing the company’s Enterprise Risk Management business for Willis’ Global Retail and Specialty teams. He was most recently...
Employee Retention: A Best Bet in Any Economy
Nov 30 2008 // Employee retention programs drive better bottom line performance in growing and uncertain economies. In fact, engaging and rewarding employees with financial or non-financial awards are retention actions that can no longer...
Lloyd’s Conference Finds Progress in Insurers Efforts on Climate Change
Nov 26 2008 // Over 100 representatives from the financial services sector met at Lloyd’s on Nov. 24 to listen to what the insurance industry has been doing to combat climate change. The conference, held for the first time this...
California Commissioner Applauds Insurance Education at Cal State Fullerton
Nov 24 2008 // “You are the current and future business leaders of the state of California,” California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner told an audience at California State University in Fullerton on Oct. 17, 2008. In...
Texas Higher Education Students Awarded Insurance Scholarships
Nov 20 2008 // The Insurance Council of Texas Education Foundation has awarded $28,000 in academic scholarships to 14 students of insurance at three universities in the state. “This is the seventh year that we have awarded...
Soft Market Challenges
Nov 16 2008 // Relationships, Recruiting, Training Key to Survival Soft market conditions could last for another nine months to five years, predict representatives from the agent, broker, carrier, reinsurance, and excess and surplus...
The ‘P’ Word
Nov 16 2008 // Passion is not a word we hear very often in the insurance industry. In all my years of listening to industry speakers, I can’t recall a single veteran agency principal, carrier CEO or consultant talk about his or her...
Soft Market Challenges
Nov 16 2008 // Relationships, Recruiting, Training Key to Survival Soft market conditions could last for another nine months to five years, predict representatives from the agent, broker, carrier, reinsurance, and excess and surplus...
