Features for January 2005

• Outsourcing Allows Agents and Brokers to Focus on Core Competencies
• Louisiana’s Bankers Insurance Center Begins Agency Acquisition Plan
• Impact on Other Agents of Conn. Verdict Against Nationwide Doubted
• A Brief History of Contingent Commission Agreements
• Montemayor not Seeking Reappointment
• New American Agents Alliance Director Looks Forward to 2005
• The Asian Catastrophe: An Unprecedented Event Evokes a Global Response
• Westfield Carefully Weighs Wider Midwest Move
• California Counties Feeling Winter Blues in the Aftermath of Storms
• Can it Happen Here’ Tsunamis a Possible Threat to West Coast
• Heath Turns the Corner as Colemont Insurance Brokers
• 13 Fla. Companies Request Rate Hikes
• Calif. Lawmaker Accuses Insurers of Gouging, Wants Rate Regulation
• VW Seeks a Sales Charge Out of No-Charge Insurance to Car Buyers
• 2005 Ga. General Assembly to Consider Medical Liability Reform
• Garamendi Announces Restitution Settlement for San Diego Fire Survivors
• From Boston Tea Party to Big Dig, Lloyd’s is Part of New England History
• Texas Surplus Lines Industry Staying Strong
• Who's Really Driving Consumer Driven Healthcare’
• Insurance Industry Can’t Paper Over Its Faults, Lloyd’s Chairman Advises
• Reputation Management from the Inside Out
• IRC Study Finds Fraud and Buildup Add About $5 Billion to Auto Injury Claims
• Court Knocks Out Mass. Limits on Banks’ Sales of Insurance
• IIAT’s Joe Vincent Seminar, Legislative Day Set for Jan. 30-Feb. 1
• Are These INs Keeping You OUT’ How to Turn Prospects Into Sales
• Insurer Votes Not to Renew N.H. Woman’s Umbrella Over Political Activity
• When Can You File a Declaratory Judgment Action’
• Garamendi Announces Legislation to Expand Low Cost Auto Program
• N.Y. Weighed Contingent Fee Issue Years Before Spitzer Investigation
• Insurance Marketing and Communications
• Insurance Industry Can’t Paper Over Its Faults, Lloyd’s Chairman Advises
• Insurance Industry Can’t Paper Over Its Faults, Lloyd’s Chairman Advises
• Common Seminar Questions and Answers
• Wells is National Alliance Los Angeles Producer School Recipient
• VW Seeks a Sales Charge Out of No-Charge Insurance to Car Buyers
• Setting Yourself on Fire is not a Good Idea
• PIA National will Oppose Broker Compensation Disclosure Model as Passed
• Iowa Insurers Caught Like Deer in Headlights by Levy Request
• Not if, but How’ Repairing the Texas Workers' Compensation System
• Insurers Committed to Real Asbestos Reform
• Missouri’s Gov. Blunt Tabs Insurance Lawyer to Chair Comp Board
• Impact on Other Agents of Conn. Verdict Against Nationwide Doubted
• Survey: Investigations into Industry Practices to Expand in 2005
• Rules Banning Credit Scoring Go to Mich. Panel for Approval
• Is it Time to Sell the Agency’ Three Factors to Help You Decide …
• Study Finds Class Action Securities Fraud Lawsuits Take a 17% Jump in 2004
• Insurance Marketing and Communications
• Credit Scoring: Actuarially Sound, But is it Fair’
• Insuring the Young and the Carless
• Are your companies’ territorial definitions what they should be’
• 2003-2004 California Year-End Legislative Repo
• Conning:Home Insurers Hit ‘Sweet Spot,’ Could Stay There Until 2008
• Agents, Insurers Seek Targeted Compensation Disclosure Rules
• Beleaguered Workers' Comp Lines Seek Captives as a Solution
• Mid-Size Brokers Hope to Gain From Industry Stumbles
• Sell Personal Lines Upgrades via Direct Mail
• Segal Shows Off Scabies, But Judge Won’t Allow Prison Medical Leave
• The Perils of Property
• Untangling the Regulatory Environment Pits State Against Federal Legislators
• Early Bird Survey Shows Slowing of 2005 P/C Premium Growth
• Legislators to Revive S.C. Fraud Legislation
• IJ Online Launches ‘How to Write’ Seminars
• Fla. Legislature Approves Refunds, Slates Special January Sessions
• Personal Lines Upgrades to Sell by Direct Mail
• North Pointe Taking Over 60,000 American Superior Policies
• Carrying Out the Growth–The Art of Agency Acquisition, Part Two
• Two New Insurance Companies Receive Fla. Approval, Certificates
• A Presidential HSA and Enrollment Projections
• Focus on the Future: Come 2014, Industry Should Look Very Familiar
• Employees Resist as Employers Push Health Savings Accounts
• People & Places
• Impact on Other Agents of Conn. Verdict Against Nationwide Doubted
• Agents, Insurers Seek Targeted Compensation Disclosure Rules
• Love Alone Can’t Keep Pa.'s Perpetual Green Tree in Business Forever
• Texas, Oklahoma Enjoy Lower Workplace Injury, Illness Rates
• Maryland Hunts for Motives Behind State’s Largest Residential Arson
• Insurance Marketing and Communications
• A Fresh Look at Rating Territories for Auto and Homeowners Insurance
• Common Seminar Questions and Answers
• New federal terrorism reinsurance differs from original
• Restaurants put risk management on the menu
• Effect of Navy shipbuilder payments on insurance questioned
• 2005 P/C industry in a word: Resilience
• Millions of families have wrong insurance coverage

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