Depending upon which side of the fence you stand, the excess and surplus insurance market is either too expensive and too unregulated, and therefore unreliable, or the right solution for a complicated risk at a difficult time. Sure it can …
Okay, I admit it: I’m a “Law and Order” junkie. The long-running television show’s reruns are in heavy rotation on the TNT network and I think I’ve seen every ripped-from-the-headlines episode from past seasons a gazillion times. So, was I …
Name May Be Changing but Company’s Service, Business Practices Stay the Same At the corner of Cole and Monticello Avenues near the Highland Park area of Dallas, an excess and surplus insurance brokerage was born–twice, it could be argued. The …
The question of whether or not to revamp the current workers’ compensation system in Texas is pretty much of a no-brainer, since just about everyone involved thinks it’s broken. The question that remains is how to overhaul it? At a …
At the corner of Cole and Monticello Avenues near the Highland Park area of Dallas, an excess and surplus insurance brokerage was born—twice, it could be argued. The company that became Heath Insurance Brokers, one of the largest specialty insurance …
The fun and games are set to begin in Texas. No, not the Olympics nor the Super Bowl–but the Texas Legislature, of course. The legislature will open its doors Jan. 11 and bill filing started last month. Lobbyists, including those …
“I see that you have made three spelling mistakes.” Those were the last words of Thomas De Mahay, Marquis de Favras, who was executed in 1790 during the French Revolution. Arrested by revolutionaries and accused of trying to help Louis …
In late October 2004, Insurance Journal had the opportunity to speak with Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Mike Pickens, a Republican, about the time he spent in Iraq earlier this year. Pickens, former president of the National Association of Insurance Commisioners, spent …
What exactly is a program? The American Heritage College Online Dictionary lists no fewer than seven primary meanings for the word when used as a noun, ranging from “1a. A listing of the order of events and other pertinent information …
Insurance education society has served more than 130,000 participants. 1969. It was the dawning of the age of Aquarius, it was one giant leap for mankind, it was the Summer of Love, it was Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida, baby. And, it was the …
