“Amateur hour is over.” Those were the words of the Sullivan Group president Gerald J. Sullivan, addressing a roomful of industry executives recently at the 9th Annual Insuring the Children Forum. Sullivan’s words were marked with caution as he warned …
Today, more and more organizations are changing the way they view and pay their employees. The move is away from the traditional “cost-of-doing-business” concept. Successful businesses are developing creative programs to guide employees to focus on improving business performance and …
What have you done in the last six months? Former Louisiana Commissioner Jim Brown lost 28 pounds, read 100 books, cooked for hundreds of people daily and squeezed in a weekly World Wide Web column between two book projects. Of …
Public risk managers said that price, increased self-insured retentions and coverage were the biggest challenges they face over the next year, according to a survey conducted recently by Munich-American RiskPartners, a division of American Re-Insurance Company and the Public Risk …
One of the big issues facing small- to mid-size oil and gas operators and contractors these days is the need to determine how much risk they are willing to carry themselves and how much they want to transfer to an …
This is the first of an ongoing series on employee benefits. Insurance Journal will increase this series as we attract more advertising from employee benefits suppliers. What information would you like to see regarding employee benefit products, plans, vendors, suppliers, …
Recently, Insurance Journal sat down with Alan Kaufman, chairman, president, and CEO of the H.W. Kaufman Financial Group and its subsidiary, Burns & Wilcox Ltd. As chairman, Kaufman has played an active role through a number of mergers and acquisitions …
Is the glass half-full, or half-empty? The classic example of identical facts dictating opposite conclusions, depending on whether you’re an optimist or a pessimist, defines the current picture in the reinsurance industry, even if it is admittedly a bit more …
Which clients do you want to keep for life? Is strategy in place to manage each experience those “keeper” clients have with your agency? You only have so many resources. You and your staff can only do so much. More …
Every day, agents and brokers use financial strength ratings of insurers in their business. A carrier’s ratings may affect an agent’s ability to place risks with that insurer, or the client’s willingness to be insured by a vulnerable carrier, given …
