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Okla. Bill Seeks Protection for 9-1-1 Dispatchers Against Lawsuits
Mar 2 2006 // Legislation protecting emergency medical dispatchers from lawsuits has passed the Oklahoma House Appropriations and Budget Committee. The House of Representatives reported that House Bill 2879, by State Representatives...
Main Street America Group to Honor Seven Employees
Mar 1 2006 // Seven of the Main Street America Group’s leading employees will be honored March 9 in Jacksonville, Fla. They will receive the company’s highest honor by being inducted into its Circle of Excellence, an annual...
TDI Reports More Than $171K in Fines and Restitution in January
Mar 1 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance announced enforcement actions taken by Commissioner Mike Geeslin that became final during January. The actions include three license revocations, two license denials and fines and...
Lord Levene Answers Questions after Bermuda Conference
Mar 1 2006 // Following last week’s World Insurance Forum in Bermuda, Lloyd’s chairman Lord Peter Levene undertook to give his answers to some important questions in a Q&A format on the Lloyd’s Website...
RMS CEO Discusses Cat Models at Bermuda Conference
Mar 1 2006 // Speaking at the World Insurance Forum in Bermuda, Hemant Shah, Risk Management Solutions CEO, warned that insurers should be preparing to increase their reserves for catastrophe losses, not only due to the unprecedented...
CPCU Slates March 13 ‘Ethics’ Course in Clearwater, Fla.
Feb 28 2006 // A three-hour continuing education “Ethics” course will be presented March 13 by Michele Schrotter, Bouchard Insurance training coordinator. The course, sponsored by the Florida SunCoast Chapter of Chartered...
Paris Hosts Bird Flu Conference
Feb 27 2006 // Paris will host representatives from more than 50 countries for a two-day forum that will seek ways to cope with the increasing spread of the deadly avian flu virus H5N1. As wild birds continue their seasonal migrations,...
Eight States Targeted For Smart Choice® Expansion
Feb 24 2006 // Greensboro, North Carolina – The Smart Choice® Agents Program, which currently serves more than 2,100 independent agencies in 18 states, has announced plans to expand the program in eight states this year. According...
White House Says It Learned Lessons from Hurricane Katrina
Feb 23 2006 // The Bush Administration on Thursday released its review of The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina. In the 228-page report, the Bush Administration notes that there were major flaws in the response on the...
Calif. Commissioner Issues New Workers’ Compensation Regulations
Feb 22 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has announced new workers’ compensation regulations that will require all insurers to submit certification forms that verify that claims adjusters and medical bill...
The missing ingredient in new hire training
Feb 20 2006 // Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a continuing series of articles offering “best practices” suggestions for the hiring process including training in the independent agency. More information is...
Seven tips for successful process outsourcing and boosting productivity
Feb 20 2006 // Outsourcing often receives a bad rap, with large corporations using it to reduce staff count, bureaucracy and overhead. However, for small- and medium-sized insurance agencies, outsourcing can be a valuable, even critical,...
CALIFORNIA CREATES WEB SITE
Feb 20 2006 // The California Department of Insurance has launched a new Web site to fight workers’ compensation fraud . The site, accessible on the California Department of Insurance (CDI) web site (www.insurance.ca.gov), will...
Meetings
Feb 20 2006 // Introduction to Insurance Glendale Community College (Calif.) has added new credit courses for training in the insurance industry. Courses were developed as part of a $1.2 million President’s Community-Based Job...
Closer Look: Producer Liability
Feb 19 2006 // Keeping up with increasing liability as clients expand Property/casualty insurance agents and brokers are being exposed to more lawsuits as they move into unfamiliar products, states and technologies, and as their own...
People
Feb 19 2006 // United America Indemnity Ltd.’s board of directors has selected Joseph F. Morris as its president. The company will also consolidate its two U.S. insurance subsidiaries, United National Group and Penn-America Group,...
Agency Advisor
Feb 19 2006 // It is context that helps employees think through complex problems in the absence of their seniors. Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a continuing series of articles offering “best practices”...
Meetings
Feb 19 2006 // Glendale Community College (Calif.) has added new credit courses for training in the insurance industry. Courses were developed as part of a $1.2 million President’s Community-Based Job Training Grant involving 16...
Outsourcing
Feb 19 2006 // Outsourcing often receives a bad rap, with large corporations using it to reduce staff count, bureaucracy and overhead. However, for small- and medium-sized insurance agencies, outsourcing can be a valuable, even critical,...
Producer School
Feb 19 2006 // To an inexperienced agent, learning the insurance industry’s ropes – and many acronyms – can be difficult. Yet there are many educational opportunities designed to coach young agents into better...
