Features for November 2008
- New Catastrophe Bonds on Hold Pending Reinsurance Market Hardening
- Employee Retention: A Best Bet in Any Economy
- Insurance Dollars an Electoral Force in South Central States
- New Restrictions for Maine Drivers
- Don’t Just Translate It
- Agents ‘Putting Back the Pieces’ After Brooke
- Tri-State Governors Call on Feds to Help Ex-Financial Services Workers
- How Valuing Diversity Can Boost Sales
- Don’t Just Translate It
- Steady Habits Make for a Stable Market
- Even Best Practices Agencies Struggle To Grow in Soft Market
- California Wildfires May Take Longer to Settle
- Debate Continues in Maryland Over Ambulance Transport Fees
- Former Agent Ends His Second Career as Florida Gators’ ‘Two Bits’ Cheerleader
- California Governor to Propose Insurance Surcharge
- New York Warns Insurers about Some Homeowners’ Cancellations
- Florida Workers’ Compensation Insurers Seek 8.9% Rate Hike Due to Court Ruling
- The Importance of Being Earnest
- Delaware Student Seeks Damages for Gossip
- Florida Cigarette Case Could Affect Other Products, Warn Business Groups
- Insurance Dollars Influence Western Legislators
- Employee Retention: A Best Bet for Better Performance in Any Economy
- Buyers Advised to Prepare Now for Hardening Markets as 2008 Winds Down
- Aon Outlines Insurance Program for Troubled Financial Assets
- New Restrictions for Maine Drivers
- New Alabama Commissioner Ridling Looking at Coastal Options
- There’s No Wrong or Right Time for an M&A
- Ex-Pennsylvania Judge Found Guilty of Insurance Fraud
- D&O Insurance Marketplace Entering a Transitional Phase
- Somali Pirates Heighten Menace
- Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund Withdraws Rate Change Request
- Madrid Zone Earthquake Study a Wake-Up Call for Tennessee, Other States
- All Claims Are Local
- Estimating the Credit Crisis Insurance Losses
- A Good Win in North Carolina for Experience
- Environmental Liability: What’s Good Today, Could Be Bad Tomorrow
- Wanted: Agencies Focusing on Hispanic Market
- TWIA Rates to Rise
- 17th Annual Program Directory, Volume II
- Agents Speak Out on ‘Putting Back the Pieces’ After Brooke
- How Valuing Diversity Can Boost Sales
- Program Market’s ‘Best in Class’
- Insurance Dollars an Electoral Force in Midwestern States
- Wanted: Agencies Focusing on Hispanic Market
- Lloyd’s Expects U.S. To Adopt Federal Regulation of Insurance
- Construction Industry Says N.Y. City Crane Rules Go Too Far
- West Virginia Voters Approve Gambling for The Greenbrier
- Strategic Planning for an Increasing Direct Writer Marketplace
- How to Control Construction Claims in a Collapsing Homebuilders’ Market
- States Rate Poorly on Consumer Insurance Information on Web
- Mississippi Katrina Report: No Fraud by State Farm
- Arizona Voters Reject Homeowners Bill of Rights
- Attract and Win Social Services Business with Risk Management Strategies
- Berkshire Closes on Deal for 2 White Mountains Insurers in Runoff
- Florida Cat Fund Questions Risk Trigger Insurer Ratings
- San Diego Voters Reject Fire Tax
- Soft Market Challenges
- North Carolina, Florida Join States Lowering Workers’ Comp Rates
- Don’t Just Translate It
- N.D. Commissioner Hamm Declared Winner in Tight Race
- University Football Facility Named for Alabama Agent’s Family
- Public Entities Use Early Intervention to Improve Workers’ Comp Results
- A Tough Supporter of State Insurance Regulation, Hudson Also Has Open Door Policy at the Department
- South Central Region’s Best Practices Agencies
- Wanted: Agencies Focusing on Hispanic Market
- Former Illinois Mayor Pleads Guilty to Insurance Scam
- Even Best Practices Agencies Struggle to Grow in Soft Market
- Study: California Earthquake Could Cause $200 Billion in Losses
- Brooke Corp.’s Prospective Buyers Say ‘No’ to Deal; Company Declares Bankruptcy
- Successive Hurricanes: Potential Windfall for Insureds?
- Brooke Corp. Troubles Continue as Stock is Sold
- N.Y. Court Upholds Illegal Alien’s Workers’ Compensation Claim
- Scorecard: Small Business at the Supreme Court
- Soft Market Challenges
- Piracy Attacks Boost Demand for Kidnap and Ransom Coverage
- States Made History in November Election, Too
- Even Best Practices Agencies Struggle To Grow in Soft Market
- Brooke Corp.’s Prospective Buyers Say ‘No’ to Deal
- What the 2008 Election Means for California’s Insurance Agents
- Father of Patriots QB Brady Sued in Insurance Agency Case
- Mississippi Rebuilds Its Insurance Markets
- Retail Agents Left Wondering About Austin Surplus Lines
- When It Comes to Crane Safety, It’s Not Safety First but Safety Always
- Connecticut Insurance Broker Filled GOP Slot as Honorary Candidate
- Florida’s Citizens Offers New Commercial Nonresidential Policy
- South Central Regulator Web Sites Rate Highly
- Green Building: New Benefits for Society and New Challenges for Risk Management
- Democrat Weldin Stewart Elected Delaware Commissioner
- Agencies Shopping for Lowest E&O Rates Could Be Adding to Their Risk
- Washington Not Likely to Focus Much on P/C Agents in 2009
- Sensible Success
- From Condos to Coastal Property: The State of Maryland’s P/C Market
- Goodwin Elected to Succeed Long as North Carolina Commissioner
- Tough Economic Times Could Force Salary Freezes in Southern California
- Insurance Industry’s Political Contributions to Democrats Spike in 2008
- How Valuing Diversity Can Boost Sales
- Alabama Insurance Agent Parker Falls Short in Race for Congress
- Now is Not the Time for Insurance Industry Retreat
- CEO of New Marsh Retail Agency Sees Lean, Nimble Operation
- Agencies Shopping for Lowest E&O Rates Could Be Adding to Their Risk
- Kentucky Revs Up Insurance for Low-Speed Electric Vehicles
- Kreidler, Lindeen Take Top Insurance Regulator Spots
- Survey: What Keeps Independent Agents Awake at Night?
- Minn. Fines Agency for Ad Exploiting AIG Situation
- $115M Settlement in Louisiana Teachers’ Fund Dispute With Former AIG Execs
- Montana State Fund Down About $26 Million in Market Tumble
- Quality Counts!
- Has the Credit Crisis Litigation Wave Reached an Inflection Point?
- New York Closes Receivership of Insolvent Texas Insurer
- California Recovers Nearly $13 Million Following 2007 Wildfires
- Property/Casualty Insurers on Government Rescue Funds: No Thanks
- Ohio Courts: 30,000 Asbestos Injury Cases Tossed Out
- Public School Officials Can Be Liable for Not Responding to Harassment Claims
- Foreclosed Residential Projects
- More E&O Coverage for a Reasonable Price Suits the Average ‘Joe and Jo’
- Risk Managers Urges Others to Adopt Contract Certainty
- South Carolina Lab Tests Homes in Wind, Hail
- California Commissioner Announces 5% Workers’ Comp Rate Increase
- Has the Credit Crisis Litigation Wave Reached an Inflection Point?
- How Independent Agencies Reduce E&O Exposure
- Mass. Drivers Slow to Shop Under New Auto System
- A.M. Best, Insurers Worry Financial Crisis Could Affect Florida’s Cat Fund
- Aon Selling Auto Insurance Broker in California to Mercury General
- AIG Crisis Highlights the Need for Insurance Professionalism
- SEC Reports Big Jump in Enforcement Actions
- Two New York Agencies Named Top Performers
- Kentucky Weathering AIG and Ike Hurricanes
- Californians Take Responsibility for Underinsurance
- Global Crisis Dominates A.M. Best’s London Conference
- 2008 Insurance Journal Agency E&O Survey at a Glance
- Maryland’s Treatment of Injured Workers Graded About Average Compared to 9 States
- Florida Gets Workers’ Comp Hike Warning
- Surplus Lines Association of California Increases Stamping Fee
- Agents Joe and Jo on AIG and E&O
- Letter to the Editor: Employers Can Help to Increase Professionalism
- ARM Correction
- Insurers’ Study Warns on North Carolina Beach Plan Deficit
- Avoiding Errors in Your Agency’s E&O
- Risk Managers Report Price Softening; Insurers Battle Surplus Decline
- Why Agents Choose Other Markets Rather Than Their Preferred Markets
- New York AG Confirms AIG Pay Freeze
- Alabama Revenue Chief Calls for Captive Insurers for Coastal Property Risks
- Law Changes Defense in Construction Defect Claims
- More Lawsuits, Firmer Prices on the Horizon for Executive Liability
- New York Insurance Chief Seeks Contract Certainty for Large Policies
- North Carolina Thwarts Alleged Auto Accident Ring
- Cab Driver’s Family Not Entitled to Uninsured Motorist Coverage in Carjacking
- Conning Research: Challenges, Threats Loom for Homeowners Insurance Market
- Mass. Surviving Bumps in the Auto Insurance Road
- Alabama, Mississippi Agencies Among 6 Named Top Performers by Big ‘I’
- The Battle to Preserve Agency/Broker Value
- Higher Gas Prices Drive Down Auto Rates, Drive Up Politics Over Regulation in New York
- Willis Report: California May See Less Shaking in Earthquake
- Increased Vulnerability of Executive Suite Makes D&O a Critical Coverage
- Mass. Agents Contribute $1.9B to the State’s Economy
- No Ruling by Arkansas Supreme Court on Fairness of Workers’ Comp System
- Court: Pharmacy Can Be Liable for Dispensing Withdrawn Drugs
- Young Brit IPODs are Broke Says a CII Report
- Brooke Corp. Troubles Continue as Stock is Sold
- Foreclosed Residential Projects
- Oregon Insurance Division Administrator Kipper Steps Down
- Local Governments Increase Homeowners Loss
- Texas Officials Blast Feds; Regulators Warn Insurers
- Utah Motorcycle Deaths Hit Record High
- A Winning E&O Defensive Strategy
- $395 Million Approved for Flood, Tornado Recovery in Iowa
- Bright Spots and Challenges Go Hand in Hand in Louisiana
- Idaho Links Into Online National Insurance Producer Registry
- Industry Gives Back to Biomedical Research and Treatment Institute
Features Archives
