November 1, 2010
Contracts, Emerging Risks and M&As Critical Areas to Notice As the difficult economy forces architects and engineering firms to focus their resources on keeping their firms afloat, risk management is taking a backseat. This dangerous trend means insurance brokers and …
November 1, 2010
Company Focused on Technology Upgrade, Mass Market Strategy Fireman’s Fund’s financials, like other insurance carriers’, got bruised in the first half of 2010. In particular, the Novato, Calif.-based insurer had significant claims due to heavy flooding and wind damage in …
November 1, 2010
Critical Areas Include Contract Wording, M&As, Emerging Risks As the difficult economy forces architects and engineering firms to focus their resources on keeping their firms afloat, risk management is taking a backseat. This dangerous trend means insurance brokers and carriers …
November 1, 2010
Certificates of Insurance, Data Breaches, Unfamiliar Markets Among Exposures for Agents Insurance agents who fail to keep up with changing legislation, regulations, policies and forms are opening themselves up to costly errors and omissions (E&O) claims, according to experts and …
November 1, 2010
Data Breach, Privacy Claims and Certificates of Insurance Costly Exposures for Agents Insurance agents who fail to keep up with ever-changing legislation, regulations, policies and forms are opening themselves up to costly insurance errors and omissions (E&O) claims, and even …
November 1, 2010
Contracts, Emerging Risks and M&As Critical Areas to Notice As the difficult economy forces architects and engineering firms to focus their resources on keeping their firms afloat, risk management is taking a backseat. This dangerous trend means insurance brokers and …
November 1, 2010
Insurance customer service and claims representatives may not have realized it, but when they fail to do their jobs, they are contributing to the insurance fraud problem. According to a survey by Accenture, more than half (55 percent) of U.S. …
November 1, 2010
Whether Tomas passed through the eastern Caribbean as a hurricane or a tropical storm is rather irrelevant, as, whatever it was, it caused a lot of damage. The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) has already issued a detailed report, …
November 1, 2010
Economic recovery in the United States is now very dependent on the state of mind of the American public and its business leaders, according to William R. Berkley, founder, chairman and CEO of W.R. Berkley Corp. “No one in Washington …
November 1, 2010
Contracts, Emerging Risks and M&As Critical Areas to Notice As the difficult economy forces architects and engineering firms to focus their resources on keeping their firms afloat, risk management is taking a backseat. This dangerous trend means insurance brokers and …