August 22, 2005
Consider this scenario: Your employee is driving down the road talking on a cell phone. Distracted, the employee swerves and hits what she believes to be a deer. The employee does not stop. Tragically, the deer was a 15-year-old girl. …
August 22, 2005
In what seems a lifetime of handling risk management and insurance for oil and gas operators (well, I guess it is a lifetime if you are under thirty-five years of age), I have come to the realization that the functions …
August 22, 2005
In what seems a lifetime of handling risk management and insurance for oil and gas operators (well, I guess it is a lifetime if you are under 35 years of age), I have come to the realization that the functions …
July 18, 2005
Thanks to the leadership of Commissioner Jim Poolman, North Dakota insurance consumers now have common-sense protections against unfair underwriting and rating actions by insurers because of information in loss history databases, such as the Claims Loss Underwriting Exchange and Automated …
July 18, 2005
It’s obvious to us at the National Association of Mutual Insurance Cos. that there are crucial differences between public and mutual insurers. That’s why we oppose the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ proposal to embed in state insurance regulation the …
July 18, 2005
Saying complimentary things about trial attorneys is not exactly the surest way to win friends in the insurance industry. Yet even in the heated debate over tort reform, it should be acceptable to acknowledge when the other side might have …
July 18, 2005
Five or fewer insurers control at least three-quarters of the small-group insurance market. This lack of competition contributes to double-digit premium increases for many small businesses and forces an increase in the number of their employees who are uninsured. Ah, …
July 4, 2005
Five or fewer insurers control at least three-quarters of the small-group insurance market. This lack of competition contributes to double-digit premium increases for many small businesses and forces an increase in the number of their employees who are uninsured. Ah, …
July 4, 2005
If our product must be purchased, it should be affordable or bad things can happen in the public affairs arena. We’re finding that to be the case in Minnesota. Minnesota is one of the few remaining states that has no-fault …
July 4, 2005
Crucial differences between public and mutual insurers cause the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies to oppose the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ proposal to embed in state insurance regulation the expensive and burdensome provisions on financial disclosure found in …