Hard Market Generates New E&O Challenges for Insurance Agents August 22, 2012 By Amy O'Connor The soft market has made the job of insurance agents very difficult the last few years. Competition has been extremely...
Road Tests of ‘Talking’ Cars Underway August 21, 2012 Nearly 3,000 cars, trucks and buses that can “talk” began traveling the streets of Ann Arbor, Michigan today as part...
Markel FirstComp Unveils New Name, New Agent Portal August 21, 2012 By Amy O'Connor Markel and FirstComp have announced a new brand – Markel FirstComp – and a new independent agent portal. Founded in...
Lower Catastrophe Losses Boost P/C Insurers’ Earnings in Q2: Moody’s August 21, 2012 U.S. property/casualty insurers reported significantly higher net income in the second quarter of 2012 relative to second-quarter 2011, driven by...
Historical U.S. Hurricanes: What If They Struck Today? August 21, 2012 There have been 28 storms in U.S. history since 1900 which if they were happen today would each cause $10...
Federal Government’s Employment Discrimination Complaints, Payments Fall August 21, 2012 Federal employees and applicants filed 16,974 complaints of employment discrimination in fiscal year 2011, down about 3.5 percent from 2010....
Fund Manager’s Bet on Insurer Coventry Could Pay Off Big August 21, 2012 By Katya Wachtel Several big name hedge fund managers opened sizable stakes in health care insurance companies during the second quarter, and David...
Clothes Dryer Fires Cost $35 Million a Year August 20, 2012 An estimated 2,900 clothes dryer fires in residential buildings are reported to U.S. fire departments each year and cause an...
Government Sends Message by ‘Super-Sizing’ Employment Bias Cases August 20, 2012 By Sam Hananel It started with allegations of hangman’s nooses, graffiti and racist comments targeting a handful of black workers at a trucking...
Beazley Forms Data Breach Response Business Unit August 20, 2012 Beazley has established BBR Services, a new business unit dedicated to helping clients that have suffered a data breach manage...