Features for July 2010
- Michigan Supreme Court Lifts Ban on Use of Credit Scores by Insurers
- Country Sees Growing Power of Hispanic Agents and Customers
- Louisiana, Oklahoma Least Affordable States for Car Insurance
- Business Moves
- Georgia Teacher Not Liable for Student Injury, Rules State’s High Court
- Supreme Court Decision Limits Non-U.S. Companies’ Exposure to U.S. Securities Litigation
- Road Tech
- Declarations
- Washington Agents Advised to Update Contact Info
- Gulf Oil Disaster Insureds Warned of Claim Notification Deadline
- The Hartford Agrees to Roll Back Homeowner Rate Hikes in Texas
- Wash. Court Dumps Notice for Malpractice Lawsuits
- Florida Insurers Need Rate Increases, Says Rating Expert Demotech
- Contractual Liability Is Just That
- Small Businesses Pay 33% of Rising Tort Costs Out-of-Pocket
- Road Tech
- Kentucky Debates Farm Safety Laws After Hayride Death
- Ex-Marsh Executives’ Bid-Rigging Convictions Tossed on New Evidence
- Business Moves
- It Figures
- Marketing Knowledge Equals Sales Power
- Webinar to Help P/C Agents Benefit from Health Insurance Boom Under Reform Law
- It Figures
- Business Moves
- Second California Insurer Files to Offer Pay-As-You-Drive Coverage
- Swett & Crawford Goes Global With Cooper Gay
- New Jersey Bill Targets Vehicles Registered Out of State
- Truckers Insurance Headed in New Directions
- Make Your Agency Look Big – Even If It’s Not
- Declarations
- Declarations
- Barratt Selected as Nevada Insurance Commissioner
- Insurance Journal’s Academy of Insurance Instructor Ryan Gears Up for Performance, Leadership Sessions
- New York Weighs Easing Excess Lines Rules
- Tennessee Wife Whose Suicidal Husband Burned Home Denied Claims
- Declarations
- E&O Insights: E&S Market Fraught with Landmines
- New Hampshire Hikes Surplus Lines Taxes
- Why Insurance Agents Must Join the Social Media Revolution
- Washington Closer to Eliminating Workers’ Comp Insurance Monopoly
- New Markets
- New Jersey Supreme Court: Insurer Must Defend in House Guest Overdose
- Post Office Averted Fake Forwarding of Mail Sent to Florida’s Citizens
- It’s Nothing Personal … Just Business!
- The Physics Behind Business
- Connecticut to Buy, Then Demolish Flood-Prone Properties
- 4 ‘Ace’ Agencies, 4 Success Stories
- It Figures
- How New Exchange of Healthcare Data Might Reduce Tort Costs
- Business Moves
- Business Moves
- Understanding Business Income Claims During Times of Civil Unrest
- As the Wholesale World Turns
- New Jersey to Cease Printing Agents’ and Adjusters’ Licenses
- West Virginia’s BrickStreet Faces Competition for Government Accounts
- Actuarially Sound Rates Remain Elusive Along Texas Gulf Coast
- What Agents Think Makes a Great Insurance Carrier Field Rep
- Business Moves
- It Figures
- It’s Nothing Personal … Just Business
- Rough Road for Trucking in the New Economy
- Baltimore Requires Automatic Sprinklers in New Homes
- Florida Jury Awards $2.4 Million in First Chinese Drywall Trial
- New Markets
- A Disaster Can Take Many Forms: Are Your Business Customers Prepared?
- Non-Resident Blogger Can Be Sued in Florida Over Defamation
- Construction Claims: Understanding Colorado’s Statutory Notice of Claim Process
- Near National P/C Carriers Identified for 2010
- Florida Court Says Fishermen Can Sue Polluter; Is BP Next?
- 20% of Drivers Would Flunk Test
- How to Manage the Growing Risks of Social Media
- Accidents Bring New Calls for Helmet Law in Iowa
- Coastal Trends
- Declarations
- Hit a Home Run with Wholesalers
- Ohio Storm Victims Get 60-Day Leeway on Insurance Payments
- Business Moves
- Court Rules in Favor of Calif. State Compensation Workers
- It’s Nothing Personal … Just Business!
- West Virginians May Sue Insurers Under Human Rights Law
- 2010 A Revolutionary Year for Truckers Insurance
- Declarations
- The Great Unbundling
- It Figures
- Judge Approves $712.5M Settlement Deal for 9/11 Responders
- Midwest States Grapple with Levee Problems, Flood Insurance
- For Gulf Oil Disaster Victims, Claims Process Improves for Some
- Report IDs Pacific Northwest as ‘Mega-Earthquake’ Hotspot
- Connecticut Warns Agents over Surplus Lines Placements
- Business Moves
- Louisiana AG to Feinberg: Keep State in the Loop
- Business Moves
- Price Scare
- Michigan Court Rules Liability Waivers for Kids Do Not Bar Lawsuits
- 2010 a Revolutionary Year for Truckers Insurance
- West Faces High Wildfire Potential
- Important Questions
- The Great Unbundling
- Oklahoma Placing Pegasus Insurance into Rehabilitation
- The Ethics of Stealing Business From Competitors
- Declarations
- Declarations
- Behavioral Economics and Insurance
- It Figures
- Staged Accidents Soar 58% in Florida
- FEMA: States Need Time to Review Flood Map
- The Competitive Advantage
- Liberty Mutual Wins Dismissal of Workers’ Comp Claim for Injured Massachusetts Carpenter
- North Carolina Increases Home Insurance Discounts for Stormproofing
- Declarations
- USLI Expanding with Retail Agent Distribution; No Longer Exclusively Wholesale