Features for July 2009
- Massachusetts Police Arrest 13 in Auto Insurance Fraud Case
- Oklahoma Verification System Now Operational
- 5 Harsh Marketing Warnings for Today’s Tough Times
- Rhode Island Court Rules Insurer Not Obligated to Defend Nightclub Owners
- Louisiana Citizens CEO: Rate Hike Probable in 2010
- Validus Wins IPC; Industry ‘Think Tank’ Warns on Climate Change; Partner Re to Acquire PARIS RE
- New York Eases Compensation Disclosure Mandate for Producers
- Credit Default Swaps Should Be Regulated as Insurance
- Further Challenges to Anti-Concurrent Cause Clauses
- Tackling Client Bankruptcy
- For Award Winning CSR, Going ‘Above and Beyond’ is Part of the Job
- Making Safety a Universal Language
- Property/Casualty Industry’s Earnings Down 87% in Q1
- How to Hire the Next Generation of Leaders
- Japanese Agents Tour U.S. Agencies to Learn Best Practices
- P/C Industry Pressured by 2009 Recession; Turnaround in 2011
- S.D. Company Liable for Accident Caused by Drunk Underage Worker
- California Commissioner Rejects Workers’ Comp Bureau Rate Increase
- Bankruptcy Terms to Know
- D&O Insurance: Cost Versus Value
- California Considers Expanding
- Baby Boomers, Gen Xers, Millennials at Greater Risk of Hearing Loss
- South Carolina Chief Refutes Legislative Audit Critical of Some Insurance Department Work
- Colorado’s Storm Damage Estimated at $161.1 Million
- How Independent Agents View Super-Regional Carriers
- Florida’s Citizens Rate Hikes Fall Short of Industry Hopes
- D&O Insurance: Cost Versus Value
- Tennessee Mandates Building Code
- Recession Increasing Insurance Fraud
- Buying D&O Insurance on Price Alone: Careless
- How to Cut Costs Without Cutting Effectiveness
- Web Site Estimates Damages If Old Hurricanes Were to Return Today
- Employers Direct Stops Writing Workers’ Comp Insurance in California
- Supporters See $40 Million in Mississippi Windpool Subsidies As Economic Stimulus
- Hawaii Could Tap Hurricane Emergency Fund to Shore-Up Budget
- Web Site Estimates Damages if Old Storms Returned Today
- Down But Not Out
- Love of Language Leads Enterprising Agent into Successful Niche Market
- California Closer to Allowing Mileage-Based Auto Insurance
- New Rhode Island Law Saves Residents Money When Storms Loom
- Central Oversight of Levees Needed in Arkansas
- Court: Professional Liability Policy Excludes Patent Claims
- Swimming Downstream: How a Regional Insurer Buys Others Through Demutualization
- Judge: No Coverage for N.J. Manic Depressive with a Credibility Problem
- State Insurance Regulation Needed
- How to Hire the Next Generation of Leaders
- Montana Takes Back Surplus Lines Stamping Office Operations
- Head of New York Workers’ Compensation Board Stepping Down
- California Governor Proposes Selling Some State Workers’ Comp Insurer Assets
- North Dakota Employers’ Workers’ Comp Bills Likely to Rise
- Car Dealers in the Storm
- Indiana Insurance Commissioner Atterholt Moves to Utility Board
- Taking Care of Business
- Tower Group to Acquire Specialty Underwriters’ Alliance of Illinois
- The Road to Savings
- State Auto: How a Regional Carrier Weathers the Storms
- How Independent Agents View Super Regional Carriers
- Indiana, Missouri Ban New Business from Universal Casualty
- 2009 Near National P/C Insurers
- Florida Workers’ Comp Lawyers Retained Business After 2003 Reforms
- P/C Industry Posts $1.3B Loss in Q1; Combined Ratio Up to 102.2
- North Carolina Looks for Coastal Insurance Fix
- Jackson’s Death and Event Cancellation; Max Cap Rejected; Still Searching Air France Crash Cause; Den Dekker is New FERM
- Oklahoma Regulators: Insurance Agents Being Targeted
- Cyber Security: Global Risk and Rising Complexity
- Citizens, Work Comp Bills OK’d in Louisiana
- Safe and Sound
- Click and Save: Online Class Cuts Insurance Rates
- IIAT Installs New Leadership, Names Award-Winners
- Beware of Symbol 7 Only Auto
- Connecticut Trucking Company Owner Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison
- P&C Insurance Industry Will Be Smaller at End of Financial Crisis
- Salvaging Success