Insurance Journal Magazine
    
    
 
    May 7, 2001 Technology Directory
In this Issue
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									FeaturesGaramendi Plans to Recapture Calif. Commissioner Post
 John Garamendi, who became California's first elected insurance...
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									FeaturesArrowhead General Agency ‘Right-Sizes’
 San Diego-based Arrowhead General Insurance Agency Inc. laid off at...
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									FeaturesAAMGA Selects Desrt Backdrop for ‘Diamond Jubilee’
 This year the American Association of Managing General Agents (AAMGA)...
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									FeaturesISO Estimates Insurers To Pay $705 Million in First-Quarter Cat Damage
 U.S. property/casualty insurers will pay homeowners and businesses...
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									FeaturesBenfield Greig-E.W. Blanch to Create Third Largest Global Re Broker
 On April 16, London-based Benfield Greig Group plc and E.W. Blanch...
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									FeaturesInsurer Insolvency: Will Agents Be Held Responsible’
 Those of us who have been in the insurance business for fifteen years...
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									Parting ShotsWhat the Heck is XML’
 A persistent problem in delivering the insurance product quickly and...
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									Editor's Note‘The Day They Seized the Agency’
 I got an interesting call yesterday. When someone says they have a...
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									NewsbriefsARGONAUT TO BUY NORTH POINTE
 Argonaut Group Inc. announced that one of its subsidiaries has signed...
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									NewsbriefsCOVERAGECORP RAISING $
 Access CoverageCorp Inc., the Charlotte, N.C. Internet-based business...
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									NewsbriefsPROGRESSIVE REPORTS PROFIT
 Progressive Corporation reported profit for the first quarter of...
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									NewsbriefsBEST REPORTS CAPTIVE INCREASE
 A.M. Best's newly published Captive Directory reports that 245 new...
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									NewsbriefsBROWNSFIELDS ACT PASSED
 The U.S. Senate unanimously passed the Brownfields Revitalization and...
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									NewsbriefsCONNING PREDICTS RATES HIKES
 A recent Conning & Company study, "Property-Casualty Forecast and...
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									RatingsSwiss Re Affirmed
 The "AAA" counterparty credit and insurer financial strength rating...
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									RatingsStatewide Downgraded
 The "BBBpi" FSR on Statewide Insurance Co. (IL) was lowered to "BBpi"...
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									RatingsFolksamerica Downgraded
 The "A" FSR of Folksamerica Reinsurance Company, New York, was...
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									RatingsChandler USA Lowered
 The issuer credit and senior unsecured debt ratings on Chandler USA...
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									RatingsS&P Downgrades Republic Underwriters
 The "AApi" FSRs on Republic Underwriters Insurance Co. (RUI) was...
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									RatingsS&P Affirms General Casualty of WI
 The "Api" FSR on General Casualty of Wisconsin was affirmed by S&P....
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									Fraud RoundupDriving Up the Wrong Alley
 California Insurance Commissioner Harry W. Low announced the filing...
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									Fraud RoundupOptimizing the Internet Connection
 Investigators with the CDI Criminal Investigations Branch arrested a...
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									FeaturesOregon Court Decision Forces Insurers to Change Auto Policy Language
 The Oregon Supreme Court is at it again, although on a much smaller...
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									Cover StoryHow Agents Won On The Web
 A century ago, agents found customers where they gathered—at...
 
 
    



