III Joint Forum: From the Outside Looking In It’s not very often that the insurance industry invites outsiders to share their opinions, so last month’s Insurance Information Institute’s Joint Industry Forum was noteworthy for including a segment with panelists who …
The members of the Surplus Line Association of California unanimously elected Rupert Hall as their chairman during their recent SLA Annual meeting. Hall is the President and CEO of M.J. Hall & Company Inc., a surplus line brokerage headquartered in …
ChoicePoint has confirmed in a written statement that criminals pretending to be legitimate companies stole credit reports, Social Security Numbers, driver’s license numbers and other personal information of consumers across the United States, but the company said criminals did not …
A call for nominations for the third annual Florida CHOICE Awards for Workers’ Compensation has been issued by CHOICE Medical Management Services LLC of Tampa, Fla. The program recognizes physicians who deliver remarkably high-quality care, communicate promptly with all parties …
The law firm representing Allstate Insurance Company, American International Group Inc., Chubb & Son, and St. Paul Travelers has filed a demand, addressed to Diane Koken head of the Pennsylvania Department of Insurance (PDI), asking that the PDI closely examine …
More than 600 U.S. Catholic diocesan priests and deacons were accused in 2004 of sexual abuse of minors, with the majority of allegations of abuse occurring between 1970 and 1974. Half of these clergy had been subject of accusations previously. …
IVANS Inc., based in Old Greenwich, Conn., has announced the launch of AgentExpress, a program to encourage agents to use broadband connections to retrieve carrier downloads. Agents whose carriers are sending information to IVANS E-Commerce Server (ECS) can use broadband …
French billionaire financier, François Pinault, has always played hardball. So it isn’t too surprising to find him and his holding company, Artemis S.A., as the sole remaining defendants in the civil lawsuit seeking to recover some $4 billion on behalf …
Insurance Australia Group (IAG), the country’s largest automobile and home insurer, is reportedly planning to buy a 25 stake in China Pacific Insurance Co.’s property unit. A report from Bloomberg.com said that according to sources close to the deal it …
Researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, and their colleagues have produced the first clear scientific evidence that human activity-and very little else- is warming the world’s oceans. The Scripps’ report, coming from …
