December 18, 2007
A recent study showed the length of time it takes to repair damages on auto and homeowners insurance claims weighs heavily on customer satisfaction. Multiple claims handlers on the same case irked customers as well. And failure to reimburse out …
February 26, 2007
Washington Insurance Com-missioner Mike Kreidler recently promulgated his agency’s proposals for the 2007 Legislative session. Of nine proposals, Sandi Peck, deputy commissioner of public affairs for the Washington commissioner’s office, said HB1533/SB5715 and HB1532/SB5717 were particularly urgent and important to …
January 29, 2007
Funding for the Texas Windstorm Insurance Asso-ciation (TWIA) may not be the only insurance issue on lawmakers’ plates during the 2007 session of the Texas Legislature, but it will likely be the most high profile industry concern as insurance groups …
January 8, 2007
While the nation was mostly natural disaster-free in 2006, the West suffered a few fourth quarter storms that took the blush off of an otherwise relatively rosy year. Beginning with Thanksgiving and heading into the New Year, the western states …
December 11, 2006
Insurance Journal in the latest installment of the “How to Write” series on www.InsuranceJournal.com. Saunders has been involved in IT since Shand started writing electric data processors back in 1985. She said the roots of IT reach back the development …
November 20, 2006
Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has launched a new Web-based tool for insurance consumers, called the annual Complaint Comparison Guide. The Washington guide is designed to allow consumers to search online for their auto, health and homeowners insurance company, and …
November 6, 2006
With rapid innovations in the field of information technology, types of underwriting that didn’t exist a few decades ago have become prominent today. For example, companies engaging in information technology businesses face daily exposures from theft or damage caused by …
November 6, 2006
On Sept. 13, epidemiologists in New Mexico, Wisconsin and Oregon began discussing a cluster of E. coli infections associated with fresh spinach consumption and warned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that they suspected fresh-bagged spinach as the source …
November 6, 2006
On Sept. 13, epidemiologists in New Mexico, Wisconsin and Oregon began discussing a cluster of E. coli infections and warned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that they suspected fresh-bagged spinach as the source of what could potentially become …
November 6, 2006
On Sept. 13, epidemiologists in New Mexico, Wisconsin and Oregon began discussing a cluster of E. coli infections associated with fresh spinach consumption and warned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that they suspected fresh-bagged spinach as the source …