Outsourcing often receives a bad rap, with large corporations using it to reduce staff count, bureaucracy and overhead. However, for...
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Excess and surplus lines experts expect to see steady premium growth in 2006, with commercial property and contractors business leading...
A measure to improve Washington’s emergency readiness passed the state Senate, after a lawmaker agreed to bend to insurance industry...
Oregon has started its program to track medical errors at hospitals and determine what could have been done to prevent...
California workers’ compensation insurance rates are taking a turn for the better. Thanks to reform legislation, employers should have more...
As trade barriers fall and innovations in technology continue at a breakneck speed, more U.S. companies are reaching out and...
Hallmark, Texas General Agency Hallmark Financial Services Inc. completed its previously disclosed acquisition of Texas General Agency Inc. and certain...
People Joseph Beneducci has been elected to president and chief operating officer of Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company, in Novato, Calif.,...
People Encino, Calif.-based NAS Insurance Services has appointed Richard Robin president. He will be responsible for overall operations, including underwriting,...
Anticipating and assessing risk, along with defining and assigning value to units of exposure are basic components of an insurance...