Currents for October 2006

• Declarations
• Honesty is the best insurance policy
• ‘Tort versus no-fault’ reform paradigm is false choice, paper says
• P/C insurers’ profitability drops in first-half of 2006
• Flying solo now, former Zurich executive ‘gooses ‘ N.C. agents
• Disaster planning helped New Orleans agencies get back up and running
• Insurance issues take back seat in Mass. governor’s race
• IIABA president: contingency commission crisis threatens agents
• Recovery after a disaster involves more than data and office space
• Re-Conn.-ecting state’s residents with pride as insurance capital
• Alabama coastal property owners face more insurer restrictions
• Why agents oppose contingent commission settlements
• Why agents oppose contingent commission settlements
• New Mexico appoints Chavez superintendent
• Fla. gubernatorial candidates offer property insurance proposals
• It Figures
• Making Hartford shine again as insurance capital
• Second association joins fight against Garamendi
• Miss. looks to speed delivery of Katrina housing grants
• Okla. AG, Ark. governor spar over chicken waste
• Pennsylvania pursues backup role as ‘Wall Street West’
• Workers’ comp reforms reduced physician fees
• Why agents oppose contingent commission settlements
• Declarations
• Mass. panel urges jail time for employers’ safety failures
• LA JUNTA CITY COUNCIL BANS PIT BULLS WITHOUT LIABILITY INSURANCE
• Fla. boosts insurance discounts for storm safety
• Former insurance company execs get 6 years
• N.J. helps homes with underground tanks
• Troubled Washington Casualty Co. sold after three years
• It Figures
• Why agents oppose contingent commission settlements
• R.I. candidates spar
• Utah workers’ comp fund plans no changes
• N.C. maps areas
• Chicago suburban mayor indicted in insurance scheme
• Declarations
• Premium rating errors cost auto insurers more than $16 billion
• Dear Ga. Parents: unsafe teen drivers nabbed
• It Figures
• It Figures
• Sunday liquor sales mean more Sunday crashes, study indicates
• Declarations
• Aon’s Rodell named CIAB chairman
• HRH, Hub stock prices soar; B&B grows wholesale premium to $1 billion
• Why agents oppose contingent commission settlements
• Florida CFO candidates Lee and Sink spar at issues forum
• Declarations
• Banks’ insurance revenues, insurance brokerage fees up
• Damage from Hawaii’s 6.6 earthquake predicted to be widespread
• Georgia commissioner candidates clash over money, incumbents’ record
• Ohio former agent pleads guilty to $70,000 senior insurance annuities scam
• Supreme Court agrees to hear insurance credit scoring cases
• Home design changes can increase risk
• National Lloyds, American Summit to be acquired by ARC
• Berkshire Hathaway most expensive U.S. stock
• Hurricane risk reduces prospective profit of homeowners insurance
• It Figures
• N.C. entrepreneur married to divorce insurance
• Mich. appeals court hears oral arguments on use of credit scores
• Insurance charity foundation opens in N.Y.; plans national expansion
• Deer-vehicle collisions: Bucking the trend
• Oh, deer…it’s that season
• Wash. minimum wage upped to $7.93 per hour
• Agents take aim at Zurich compensation, disclosure settlement
• Finding a solution to natural disaster insurance
• State Farm reviewing engineering firm
• Association launches attack on Garamendi regulations
• House passes surplus lines, reinsurance regulatory reform legislation
• Allstate named in “100 Best Company List” for working mothers
• Court: No libel by disgruntled N.C. columnist
• California anticipates lowering workers’ compensation insurance rates 6.3 percent
• State regulators, insurer trades spar at Congressional hearing on insurer investments
• GEICO cancels Charo
• Insurance in Neb. family for 100 years
• Declarations
• New Mexico Commission seeks new insurance superintendent
• SEC sues RenRe officers over alleged finite reinsurance scam
• Low crime rate in N.Y. City
• Hunting season brings rise in ATV thefts
• How Florida CFO hopefuls hope to solve insurance crisis
• Great Northwest to buy Hawaiian Insurance Guaranty
• Oh, deer … it’s that season
• It Figures
• Rates for Florida Keys going up and down
• Insurance damage price tag on New Mexico hailstorm tops $10 million
• Declarations
• Declarations
• Citizens’ CEO Ricker resigns
• Alaska workers’ comp reforms helping to lower rates
• It Figures
• Horace Mann told to halt cancellations in La.
• Nonprofit directors and officers: risks, exposures and insurance options
• Schwarzenegger vetoes California’s last-minute punitive damages bill
• Flood policy purchases rising nationwide and in Eastern states
• Donelon narrowly wins La. commissioner race
• Natural disasters require national response
• California governor vetoes workers’ compensation bills
• To make insurance appealing to college grads, smash the myths
• Post-hurricane homeowners perspective: change coming to Louisiana
• N.C. entrepreneur married to idea of divorce insurance
• Oregon employers to pay less for workers’ compensation in 2007
• N.H. audit blasts state’s anti-competitive insurance purchasing practices
• Texas work comp reform: a lot done, more to go
• Senate measure seeks to bolster nation’s hurricane research
• Calif. attorney general sues automakers over global warming
• N.J. agents balk at commission disclosure
• Workers’ comp claim frequency and size continue downward trend
• California locales among safest of nation’s large cities
• Hawaii to teach homeowners about hurricane retrofits
• Pa. court rebuffs Republicans on liability award law
• Private equity risk: Protecting human capital
• It Figures
• Eight easy strategies for building your agency
• Adjuster sues sisters for releasing State Farm files
• A year past Katrina: What has been learned?
• Oh, deer … it’s that season
• Managing the rising tide of employment practiceslawsuits
• It Figures
• Finding a solution to natural disaster insurance
• Safety ranking of the nation’s top10 cities
• Finding a solution to natural disaster insurance
• Declarations
• It Figures
• Declarations
• Terrorism insurance market hits federal radar

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