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Yacht Fires Pose Challenge to Firefighters and Insurers
Feb 25 2013 // Difficult to access and usually within confined spaces, yacht fires can grow into big losses quickly, posing challenges to both firefighters and insurers. Severity, a concern for high-end watercraft insurers led to the...
E&O Insights: Insuring Personal Watercraft
Feb 25 2013 // Do Your Customers Know the Options? It won’t be long before Mother Nature lets your customers know it’s time to get their boats out of storage and into the water. Other customers might decide it’s time to...
Guns on Campus Bills Moving Through Oklahoma Legislature
Feb 12 2013 // While a special school safety commission formed after the massacre of schoolchildren in Connecticut continues its work, Oklahoma legislators are pushing ahead with their own proposals to allow for armed teachers and more...
Unfair Drivers
Feb 11 2013 // In its latest report on auto insurance premiums, the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) said insurers charge higher premiums to safe drivers than to unsafe drivers. That claim seems to go against the grain when...
Policyholder Education: Agent or Carrier Responsibility?
Feb 7 2013 // Policyholder education about insurance coverage wording is a critical challenge for the property/casualty insurance industry. But who should be doing the teaching — agents or carriers? During a recent industry meeting, a...
South Dakota Lawmakers Endorse Teen Driving Safety Measures
Feb 6 2013 // A package of recommendations that would ban beginning drivers from using cellphones behind the wheel and make other changes aimed at reducing teen traffic fatalities and serious injuries is progressing through the South...
Arkansas State Senator Announces School Safety Bill
Feb 5 2013 // Arkansas Senator Missy Irvin of Mountain View announced she is drafting legislation to better prepare students and faculty in Arkansas for incidents of deadly school violence. Irvin said a goal of her legislation would be...
EMC Insurance Launches New School Safety Initiative
Feb 5 2013 // Des Moines, Iowa-based EMC Insurance Companies is partnering with SafeSchools to create safer learning environments for its insured schools. Schools insured by EMC will now have complimentary access to SafeSchools...
Texas Mutual Awards $300K in Safety Education Grants
Feb 4 2013 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. has awarded a combined $300,000 in grants to Kilgore College, Midland College and College of the Mainland in Texas City near Houston. The grants will continue to fund free workplace safety...
Industry Opposition Slows Airline Safety Law Implementation: Report
Feb 4 2013 // Federal regulators are struggling to overcome substantial industry opposition and implement a sweeping aviation safety law enacted after the last fatal U.S. airline crash nearly four years ago, according to a report by a...
Three More Bodies Found at Mexico Pemex Blast Site, Death Toll Reaches 36
Feb 4 2013 // Mexican rescue workers found three more bodies over the weekend amid the rubble of a deadly blast that tore through state oil firm Pemex’s main office complex, the government said, as search efforts appeared to near...
Insurance Industry Predicts Super Bowl XLVII
Feb 1 2013 // Insurance experts who make their living predicting and paying losses overwhelmingly believe that the Baltimore Ravens are headed for a loss in Sunday’s Super Bowl XLVII (47 for those who never learned Roman...
South Dakota House Passes Bill on Arming Teachers
Feb 1 2013 // A bill that would allow school districts to arm teachers and other personnel with guns was approved by the South Dakota House after supporters said it could make would-be attackers think twice about entering a school...
Rural School Officials: Give Texas Teachers Guns
Jan 30 2013 // Superintendents of three small rural school districts that allow some teachers to carry guns told Texas lawmakers on Jan. 28 that the practice provides a critical measure of safety for students in the event of a campus...
CFA Report: Largest Auto Insurers Often Charge Higher Premiums to Safe Drivers
Jan 28 2013 // In its latest report on auto insurance premiums charged by the largest auto insurers, the Consumer Federation of America said these insurers frequently charge higher premiums to safe drivers than to those who recently...
Changing an Agency Management System
Jan 28 2013 // When Brightway Insurance recently changed agency management systems, which took close to a year, it was one of the largest transitions of its kind in the insurance industry in terms of total users accessing a common hosted...
Louisiana Workers’ Comp Corp. Promotes Taylor, Breard
Jan 23 2013 // Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corp. (LWCC) has promoted Debra Taylor to assistant vice president of human resources and Jill Breard to assistant vice president of claims operations. Taylor has worked at LWCC since...
Some Decry Damaged Cars at New York Runway Site on Long Island
Jan 21 2013 // Environmentalists are decrying the placement of 18,000 damaged automobiles on a runway at a defunct defense plant on eastern Long Island, N.Y. The vehicles were destroyed by flooding from Superstorm Sandy. The town...
Michigan Governor Proposes New Department of Insurance and Finance
Jan 17 2013 // Michigan Gov. Rick Synder has proposed the creation of a new Department of Insurance and Financial Services. Snyder, who is beginning his third year as governor, said the new department will “emphasize consumer...
Effective Leadership – How to Implement It
Jan 15 2013 // This post is part of a series on insurance marketing and training sponsored by Astonish. In part one, we defined effective leadership and why it’s essential to insurance agencies’ success in a marketplace...
