In late October 2004, Insurance Journal had the opportunity to speak with Arkansas Insurance Commissioner and former president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Mike Pickens about the time he spent in Iraq earlier this year. Pickens was in …
Where were you in 1969? Hitchhiking to Woodstock? Surviving the jungles of Vietnam? Graduating from high school? Learning the ropes of the insurance industry? Not born yet? If you were in Austin, Texas, in the fall of that year, you …
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 …
In late October 2004, Insurance Journal had the opportunity to speak with Arkansas Insurance Commissioner and former president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Mike Pickens about the time he spent in Iraq earlier this year. Pickens was in …
In a not-so-far-away land not too long ago, insurance professionals were decrying the actions of high ranking officers of companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, etc., for their challenged ethics, their “I’m on top-of-the-world, I can do whatever I want,” attitudes, …
Employers, employees, medical providers and insurers may not agree on how to fix the Texas workers’ compensation system but all have long complained that it is in dire need of repair. Still, many stakeholders were taken aback when on Sept. …
If “you get what you pay for” described the situation for those seeking insurance coverage for oil and gas risks in 2003, “steady as she goes” may more closely characterize the market in 2004, with “the world is flat” being …
It’s too bad we can’t harness the energy of Washington’s Mt. St. Helens. It’s been belching great plumes of steam and ash of late, propelling long buried energy some 10,000 feet into the air. So far it’s been a spectacular …
At press time for this issue of Insurance Journal, Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher was in Anchorage, Alaska, attending a meeting of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. He may be enjoying that distant state’s cool climate in more ways …
Laying a Foundation for Long Term Success Being first is not a new thing to Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, who was sworn in on January 12, 2004 as the first female Governor of Louisiana. Twenty years earlier, at the beginning of …
