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Florida’s Market and How Surplus Lines Agents Are Faring
Mar 19 2010 // Hurricane Andrew, for all of the grief it delivered, gave wholesale broker Hull & Co. and Bruce Bowers a big opportunity. “Prior to ’92, there wasn’t much of a need for personal lines in the excess...
National Alliance Research Academy Appoints Board of Directors
Mar 15 2010 // The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research has announced the addition of four new members to the 2010 Academy Board of Directors. The new chairman is Randy Dumm, Ph.D., Florida State University, in...
Fitch Holds Conference on China’s Life, Non-Life Insurance Sectors
Mar 11 2010 // Fitch Ratings hosted a teleconference today, March 11 on the performance of China’s life and non-life insurance sectors. A replay of the conference is expected to be posted soon on the rating agency’s web site...
Ironshore Releases Site Pollution Liability Program for Medical Facilities
Mar 10 2010 // Ironshore Inc. has introduced an environmental insurance program to help healthcare facilities manage environmental liability exposures and curtail restitution expenses. Ironshore’s Environmental Insurance division...
North Carolina Insurance Regulator Launches Mobile Web Site
Mar 9 2010 // Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin has launched a mobile version of the North Carolina Department of Insurance’s Web site, www.ncdoi.com, to provide a mobile-friendly way for consumers to link with the state...
State of Challenge: How Florida’s Surplus Lines Agents Are Faring
Mar 7 2010 // Interview with FSLA President Bruce Bowers Weak Economy, Insureds Going Bare, Hungry Admitted Markets and Citizens’ Low Rates Test Agents Hurricane Andrew, for all of the grief it delivered, gave wholesale broker...
People
Mar 7 2010 // Lockton Dunning Benefits appointed Sheri Pixley to the newly created position of executive vice president and practice leader of the Dallas-based health and welfare practice. Pixley has been involved in consulting with...
E&O Insights: Personal Lines Accounts
Mar 7 2010 // Uncover Inland Marine Exposures for Protection and Sales Opportunities Although heavy personal lines accounts are generally more favorable from an errors and omissions (E&O) standpoint, there is no doubt the potential...
Max Capital to Merge with Harbor Point; Conference Call Today
Mar 4 2010 // Max Capital Group Ltd. and Harbor Point Limited announced that they “have unanimously approved a definitive amalgamation agreement for a merger of equals.” Both companies are based in Bermuda. Max Capital is a...
Rules Change for Young Drivers in Texas
Mar 2 2010 // Applicants for a drivers license in Texas between the ages of 18 and 24 now must complete an approved driver education course and a driving skills test to get a license, the Texas Department of Public Safety says. DPS says...
Agents Urged to Tell Insureds of Flood Program Lapse
Mar 1 2010 // Insurance agents with customers waiting to be covered in the federal flood insurance program should tell those customers about the program’s suspension, an insurance expert is advising. As reported by Insurance...
Nevada Assembly Rejects Insurance Verification Cameras
Feb 26 2010 // Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons amended his proclamation for the Legislature’s special session to include sweeping reforms to collective bargaining, education, water law — and said lawmakers should be quick about their...
AAMGA Funds $1 Million Insurance Chair at Georgia State University
Feb 26 2010 // The wholesale insurance industry association, American Association of Managing General Agents (AAMGA), has created a Distinguished Chair in Risk Management and Insurance at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at...
IMA Inc. Appoints Hartman to Health Risk Management Practice in Denver
Feb 23 2010 // IMA Inc., an independently owned retail insurance broker announced that Brent Hartman has joined the company’s health risk management practice, Life IQ, in the Denver office. Life IQ is IMA’s multidisciplinary...
Texas Students Awarded Insurance Council Scholarships
Feb 22 2010 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) has awarded academic scholarships to students at Southern Methodist University (SMU) and the University of Houston – Downtown (UHD). The students represent each school’s...
How Program Partners Can Help You Sell Value
Feb 21 2010 // “Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”—Warren Buffet Agents, brokers and underwriters should heed Mr. Buffet’s advice and consider how they’re doing business. I’ll bet if I asked...
Hawaii Could Tap Hurricane Fund to Fund School Education
Feb 21 2010 // Hawaii is closer to tapping its Hurricane Relief Fund to help balance the state budget and resolve teacher furloughs, as a legislative committee advanced a bill that would appropriate $50 million from the fund. Senate Bill...
Young Agents Survey
Feb 21 2010 // Most enter the insurance business by accident but for young independent insurance agents, the decision to stick with insurance as a permanent career is a matter of choice. A healthy 84 percent of young insurance agents say...
Arch Capital Posts $284.7 Million Q4 Net Income; Conference Call Today
Feb 17 2010 // The Bermuda-based Arch Capital Group Ltd reported that net income available to common shareholders for the 2009 fourth quarter of $284.7 million, or $4.75 per share, compared to a net loss to common shareholders of $143.0...
Live Webinar Tomorrow for Agency Owners and Carriers: When Good CRMs Go Bad hosted by Leads360
Feb 16 2010 // Your insurance leads need special attention to become customers. It is not easy to get sophisticated consumers to buy, and that is why you need to leverage every tool available to make your time as effective as possible....
