Features for April 2006
- Technology can help agents boost sales and communication
- Not all policies are created equal
- Your top salespeople may not be the best sales managers
- States balk at growing trend of federal preemption
- AOL ad revenue class action suit settled for $2.6 billion
- Ensuring someone brings home the gold, silver, bronze–and green
- Agribusiness’s New Appeal
- Technology
- Cheers and applause rang out from morethan 120 FAIA members the Florida Senate’s action was announced. The bill elimi
- CLOSER LOOK: Agribusiness
- E-Discovery and Electronic Records
- TSLA’s Patterson: After 25 years, retirement is not an option
- New uniform credit agencies’ scoring system not likely to affect insurers
- Agents: Optional Federal Charter Dual Structure
- Safeco weighs Internet sales of auto insurance
- Kids and Cars puts in motion a grassroots campaign to reduce backovers
- Miscellaneous Professional Liability
- How should agencies manage premium dollars?
- Feeding the farmowners business
- N.Y. kills ‘draconian’ agent penalties
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Fla. passes tort reform
- New law pushed by agents may hamper Nevada mining watchdog group
- Stolen Fidelity laptop computer held sensitive data on retirement accounts
- Totally ready or just terrorism ready?
- Technology can help agents boost sales and more
- Contingent fees become focus in R.I. lead paint case
- Risk Management
- States balk at growing trend of federal preemption
- Critics allege hurricane risk modelers influenced by insurers
- California automobile repair bill modified to allow for additional study
- Finding coverage getting tough for homeowners in southern Louisiana
- Not all agents oppose an optional federal charter
- Agencies move beyond strategy toward practical real-time rating
- Southeast states lagging in legal system fairness rankings by Chamber of Commerce
- Safeco weighs Internet sales of auto insurance
- Closer Look: Insurance Associations
- Colorado targets 180 ‘sham’ affiliated businesses
- Not all agents oppose an optional federal charter
- Five ingredients for sales success
- Safeco weighs Internet sales of auto insurance
- Director Kitzman encourages S.C. competition; expected policy cutbacks never occurred
- Banks, shippers, oil companies – not just insurers – face Katrina-related suits
- Bill will require study before Calif. auto rating factors can change
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- The Olympic Games began and ended without incident… but what if they had been cancelled?
- Brokerage Watch
- Northeast states fair well in legal system fairness rankings by Chamber of Commerce
- Fla. condo owners face possible Citizens rate hike
- Critics allege wind modelers influenced by insurers
- Labor says workers’ comp reform doesn’t work for permanently disabled
- •Doron M. Rotman, audit and RAS managing director for Information Risk Management; and
- Jobs and more on the line in R.I. as Beacon Mutual-Carcieri political saga enters critical period
- Fla. passes tort reform
- Raising the profile of managing general agents in the U.S. and abroad
- Critics allege wind modelers following politics over science
- Combat job outsourcing and off-shoring with education
- Closer Look: Premium Funds Financial Management
- Tim Summers
- John Niedernhofer
- Agencies move beyond strategy toward practical real-time rating
- Coalition supports CAT Fund bill
- Use agency generated coupons to cash-in on new sales
- Jobs and more on the line in R.I. as Beacon Mutual-Carcieri political saga enters critical period
- George Dale, Mississippi Insurance Commissioner
- Managing Disasters
- Construction, insurance, banking industries to develop moisture management standards
- Technology
- Not all agents oppose an optional federal charter
- Insurance professionals must keep up their credentials and education
- Writing public entities: how they compare to profit businesses
- Acquiring minds want to know how even smaller firms can buy agencies
- Coalition supports CAT Fund bill
- Debra Bowers
- Arizona establishes new penalties for late surplus lines tax payments
- Poll Shows Drivers Don’t Save Money Immediately By Owning a Hybrid Vehicle
- Acquiring minds want to know how even smaller firms can buy agencies
- The no-fault deadline decision
- Woodruff-Sawyer discusses the secret to success
- Mass. makes health insurance history by making it compulsorypq”The state says the uninsured tend to be low income, par
- FAIA briefs agents about Florida bills, holds meetings with legislators
- Closer Look: Louisiana Homeowners
- Hawaii lawmakers propose tax credits for recent rain and flood victims
- Archdiocese uses reserves to settle sex-abuse claims, pays $5.25 million
- Why agents oppose Sen. Sununu’s optional federal charter
- Fla. pursues fraud, arrests 150 individuals; workers’ comp rates drop
- The London market looks beyond Lloyd’s
- Hartford to charge insurers for emergency services
- Spotlight: Special Events
- LA. HOMEOWNERS MARKET
- CLOSER LOOK: Agribusiness
- Not all agents oppose an optional federal charter
- Western Insurance Associations: How the West is run
- Getting to the bottom of underinsured homes
- Deadly storms hit Midwest again in new round of spring tornadoes
- Tom Gallagher, Florida CFO
- TSLA’s Patterson: After 25 years, retirement is not an option
- Declining rates fuel stand-alone terrorism market
- Your top salespeople may not be the best sales managers
- Minimizing litigations and investigations by managing e-records
- Taking a piece of the pie
- Closer Look: Olympics Coverage
- Spotlight: Special Events
- ATV helmet measure moves to Okla. house floor
- Selling
- Critics allege wind modelers influenced by insurers
- The reliance on digitized information is one reason identity theft is a growing problem
- Judge rejects Allstate request to dismiss hurricane lawsuit
- Insurers unlikely to alter credit scoring as agencies pursue uniformity
- California
commissioner
- Medical malpractice insurance reform: A regulator’s perspective
- Totally ready or just terrorism ready?
- Regulator’s View
- have to be destroyed, howmany more lives have to be
- Sam Jones
- Financial Commentary
- The Olympic Games began and ended without incident… but what if they had been cancelled?
- When insurers play the ratings game
- By Samantha Critchell
- Sirius Intl. withdraws its Fla. license application
- Workers barred from Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch due to insurance
- Flood-damaged vehicles surface on used car lots
- Leverage agency resources by retaining your talent
- Officials hope ’06 quake centennial prompts more to get insurance
- Maine adopts ID theft law
- Poe/Southern Family changes Fla. underwriting
- Closer Look: Insurance Associations
- Fitch: Deterioration in profits for U.S. P/C sector
- Take the pollution out of your D&O policy
- D&O liability premiums fall for second straight year, study says
- Liberty Mutualsuccessfully argued that the ‘clear and convincing
- Kristin Wall
- Case Law Watch
- States addressing widening tragedy of teen driver deaths
- The London insurance market: The City and the regulators
- Policy Rescission
- Case Law Watch
- Small Business California finds employers concerned about workers’ comp
- Leverage agency resources by retaining your talent
- When insurers play the ratings game
- Northeast warned ‘historic’ weather disaster could hit this year
- Texas insurers see profits despite Hurricane Rita
- Risk Management Solutions predicts hurricane activity to increase losses by 40 percent
- A new era for the Texas Workers’ Compensation System
- The London insurance market: The City and the regulators
- Spotlight: Special Events
- Louisiana, Texas look to bonds for cat funding
- Measuring Risk: Insurers’ day of reckoning arrives
- Stronger building codes called for in Florida Panhandle
- New plan helps agents avoid residual market for workers’ comp risks
- Agency Advisor
- Homeowners – Texas
- CPCU
- Insurance regulatory reform — a constant process
- Case Law Watch
- Agency Advisor
- Big players, like big tractor trailers, cannot get in and cover the territories that smaller, independent
insurance ag
- Braking steals-on-wheels in Florida, state capital of staged auto accident
- ZURICH AGENTS CAUGHT
- Idaho law would increase attorney’s awards
- International
- Times Have Changed. Are you still driving this business?
- Page title here
- California proposesdecrease in workers comp pure premium rates
- Katrina not enough to cause many homeowners to buy flood coverage
- The missing ingredient in new hire training
- Commissioner Long calls for strengthening N.C. building codes
- Calif. court reinstates class action against lead paint makers
- Consumer group accuses Geico, other insurers of unfair underwriting
- Upcoming California elections make industry’s fate uncertain
- Fla. AG Crist files complaint against Marsh
- Managing Disasters
- The pre-bindingdisclosure reveals the standard commission Zurich pays agents by type of policy and
- Take the pollution out of your D&O policy
- Take the pollution out of your D&O policy
- NewsCurrents
- Agency Advisor
- Catastrophe bonds becoming a common alternative toreinsurance, S&P says
- N.J. Supreme Court lowers bar for proving customer fraud
- Western insurance associations: How the West is run
- Closer Look: Auto Fraud
- Report ranks the nation’s top most and least expensive automobiles to insure
- Spotlight: Catastrophic Coverage
- When policy rescission fails, costly complications may follow
- Measuring Risk: Insurers’ day of reckoning arrives
- Banks, shippers, oil companies – not just insurers – face Katrina-related suits
- Lawyer: Whistleblower helping build case against insurer in Hurricane Katrina lawsuit
- Keys left in car? Arizona bill would allow insurance hit
- Closer Look: Workers’ Compensation
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