January 14, 2008 Contractors/Subcontractors Employment Practices Liability 2008 Insurance Industry Meetings and Conventions Directory

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In this Issue

• Business Moves
  Business Moves
  Brown & Brown, Turner & Associates Through a subsidiary, Brown &...
• Features
  New Tools Available For Pricing Winter Storm and Fire Risk
  While winter storms do not attract the attention of mega-catastrophes...
• People & Places
  People
  Dallas-based regional insurer, The Republic Group, appointed Jim...
• Features
  Stronger Earthquake Code Rules For Ark. On Hold
  An Arkansas legislative committee in early January 2008 put off a...
• It Figures
  It Figures
  $3.1 Million A South Carolina company that made contaminated pet food...
• Editor's Note
  Getting Out and About
  The insurance industry traditionally is bullish on education,...
• Features
  Declarations
  Very Bad News "America's job-creators pay attention to the Judicial...
• Features
  Travelers Settles With States Over brokers’ Contingent Commissions
  The Travelers Cos. Inc. will pay $6 million to settle investigations...
• Features
  Deregulation Pushing Banks Into Insurance Industry
  As the financial services industry has evolved since deregulation,...
• Features
  Texas Establishes Performance Incentives for Workers’ Comp Carriers, Providers
  The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers' Compensation...
• Features
  Maintaining Profitability in a Changing Market
  What will it take to get ahead in 2008? Managing insurance cycles to...
• Features
  Subprime Contagion: Where Will the Litigation Wave Spread Next?
  The subprime mortgage meltdown has been a leading story on the front...
• Features
  Texas Coast and Rio Grande Valley Still ‘Judicial Hellholes,’ Group Says
  The Texas Gulf Coast and the Rio Grande Valley areas retained their...
• New Markets
  New Markets
  The following markets were selected from the MyNewMarkets database of...
• Features
  Zero Consumer Complaints From Hurricane Humberto Claims
  No consumer complaints have been received by the Texas Department of...
• Closing Quote
  What the Reauthorization of TRIA Means to the P/C Industry
  On Dec. 26, President George W. Bush signed the Terrorism Risk...

National Coverage

• Features
  The World According to TRIPRA
  Passage of federal terrorism insurance extension buys another seven...
• Features
  P/C Insurers’ Net Income, Surplus Rose But Profitability Dropped in 3rd Quarter
  The U.S. property/casualty insurance industry's net income after...
• Features
  Contractors’ Insurance: The Hard Sell for the Soft Market
  Selling Long-term Relationships over Short-term Savings For...
• Minding Your Business
  Well-financed Buyers Lead Today’s Agency Value Trends
  Fair market value can be defined as the price that a willing buyer...
• Features
  Assessing Catastrophe Risk While Underwriting Doesn’t Require Big Changes
  A little data can go a long way to improve risk selection in...
• Features
  Dramatic Changes in State Building Trends Could Prompt Rise in Losses
  As the financial and housing markets continue to work their way...
• Features
  Future of Bond Insurance at Risk
  The biggest casualty of the crisis surrounding bond insurers may well...
• Features
  Momentum Strong for Broker M&As in October, November
  Stock Prices: Aon Corp. (NYSE:AOC) continued to outperform the...
• Features
  Wells Publishing, Insurance Journal, Named a Top Company to Work For
  Wells Publishing, the parent company of Insurance Journal magazine,...
• Features
  Household Employee Exposure an Opportunity to Go Beyond Typical Sale
  Homeowners may be at risk when employing housekeepers, maids, cooks,...

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