Features for January 2010
- Los Angeles Workers Face Higher Labor Violations
- Insurance Surcharge Proposed to Fund Calif. Fire Suppression Efforts
- Counties with Levees Are Some of the Nation’s Most Economically Sound, Report Says
- How Economy Is Challenging Fire Protection Services
- Economy Challenges Fire Protection
- Economic Downturn Puts Pressure on Return-to-Work Programs
- Massachusetts FAIR Plans Drops Homeowners Rates
- Florida Builder Sues Insurers Over Chinese Drywall Claims
- How Rising Capital Gain Tax Rates Might Impact Tomorrow’s M&A Market
- Insurers Group Sues State of New York
- Limiting the Damage: Fifth Circuit Pares Down Mid-Continent v. Liberty Mutual
- A.M. Best Reports Reinsurers See Orderly, But Soft, January Renewals
- Four Agents Plead Guilty to Insurance Fraud in New Jersey
- Report: Counties with Levees Are Among the Nation’s Most Economically Sound
- Insurance Journal Founder, Publisher Enter Insurance Hall of Fame
- 10 Ideas for Making Insurance Agencies More Successful … Now
- Seven Steps to Selling Your Business
- How Small Group Partnerships Help Agencies to Grow Employee Benefits Revenue
- Judge OKs Long Island Class Action Suit
- Declarations
- Tragedy in Haiti; XL Moves to Ireland; NYC Exchange Doesn’t Worry London; WEF Prepares for Davos
- It Figures
- Geithner Denies Role in Hiding AIG Payments to Banks
- Auto Insurance Key to Michigan State Senator’s Gubernatorial Bid
- You Have Nothing to Sell But Fear Itself
- 3 Midwest States Recover Nearly $39M for Insurance Consumers
- SEC Order Keeps Some AIG Bailout Terms Sealed Until 2018
- Report: Counties with Levees Are Among the Nation’s Most Economically Sound
- Washington to Tackle Credit Scoring, Streamline Agent/Broker Licensing
- Declarations
- Labor & Industries: Washington’s Workers’ Comp System Is Sound
- North Carolina Court Reviews Coastal Rate Hikes
- Securities Lawsuit Filings Decline in 2009
- Declarations
- Florida Hospitals Must Warn Patients About Limits Imposed on Lawsuits
- Will Gay Marriage Bring Marketing Opportunities for Agents?
- New Jersey Court Expands Sex Discrimination Protection
- Georgia Goes After SEUS CEO Fain
- New York Sees Promise in Own London-Like Market
- New Jersey Drunken Driver Ignition Lock Bill Approved
- Florida Agents Sound Alarm Over ‘Perilous’ Property Market
- Insurers to Curb Agency Compensation in 2010, Ward Group Study Finds
- Woman Sues New York City Gym over Pole- Dancing Class Injury
- Levees Protect Some of Nation’s Key Economic Areas
- Why Carriers Invest in Education
- Insurance Agents Fined for Not Having Written Security Plans
- Declarations
- Report: Deregulation Made Massachusetts Auto Insurance Market Worse
- From Zero to 200 in 5
- Seven Steps to Selling Your Business
- Texas, Louisiana Homeowners Insurance Pricey; Florida Most Expensive
- Pennsylvania Sting Nets 24 Arrests for Auto Insurance Fraud
- Louisiana Files Suit Against Surety Bond Insurer with Texas Ties
- 10 Ways to Make Insurance Agencies More Successful … Now
- East Meets West
- Auto Premiums Decline in Ohio; Homeowners Rates Rise
- Arizona Mulls Shutting Insurance Fraud Unit
- From Zero to 200 in 5
- California Stamping Fee Increasing to 0.25%
- Few Lawmakers Support Tougher Nebraska Liquor Liability Law
- Small Businesses at Risk: A Growing Market for Employment Practices Liability Coverage
- Mich. Auto Insurance Bills Stall
- Most Property Reinsurance Rates Down at January Renewal As Capital Rebounds
- 10 Ideas for Making Insurance Agencies More Successful … Now
- Construction Specialists See Slow Recovery in 2010
- West Virginia Court Sides with Insurer on Antitrust Claim by Cancelled Agent
- Negotiations Falter at UN’s Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change
- Florida Touts Competitive Workers’ Comp Market Helped by 2003 Tort Reforms
- Uneven Expectations
- New York Plans First Steps to Creating Lloyd’s Competitor
- Mississippi to Thwart Coast-Only Filings
- Massachusetts Court: No Workers’ Comp for Custodian’s 1999 Injury
- Store Shooting Case Tests Mississippi Cap on Civil Damages
- New York Orders Two Insurers to Reinstate 260 Policies
- Audits Hit Insurance Providers for Kentucky Cities, Counties
- New Jersey Court Reverses $260K Award to Family of Student
- It Figures