Steven Nyberg The Republic Group, based in Dallas, announced two key personnel appointments. Steven L. Nyberg was named vice president of Personal Lines and Richard A. Mayer was promoted to vice president of Commercial Lines. Richard Mayer As Republic’s senior …
Members of the Texas House of Representatives Ins-urance Committee on Jan. 21 heard the views of consumers and their advocates, as well as insurers and their representatives, regarding House Bill 23, which would ban the use of credit history in …
Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry’s workers’ compensation reform bill, Senate Bill 846, passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on a 5 to 4 vote. The vote split on party lines with Republican members voting against the bill. GOP committee members complained that …
A bill that would allow law enforcement officials to instantly determine if a car is insured cleared the Oklahoma House of Representatives by a vote of 74-26. House Bill 1351, by Rep. John Wright, would require insurance policies to include …
The Arkansas House of Represen-tatives passed House Bill 1315, which would bar auto insurers from using credit ratings as a factor in setting auto insurance premiums. Rep. Rick Green, R-Van Buren, sponsored the bill, which passed the House despite concerns …
Is the use of credit histories in insurance rating good, bad or indifferent? In general, insurers favor the practice. They say it makes for more accurate underwriting. Indeed, a number of studies, including an exhaustive one recently released by the …
While teaching basic insurance, ethics, and errors and omissions for the Professional Insurance Agents of Florida I have noted several trends I would like to share with you. The good is very good, in fact, it is excellent. Never before …
Medicaid reform, changing term limits and ethics will be three major issues of concern to the Florida Legislature during upcoming meetings and through 2006, Ron Villella, Professional Insurance Agents of Florida lobbyist said in introductory remarks in Tallahassee during PIAF’s …
With less than 90 days to go until the 2005 hurricane season begins, Florida legislators are scrambling to solve a wide-variety of hurricane-related problems: Getting insurance claims settled; solving problems with Citizens Property Insurance; and cleaning up after the 2004 …
Support Windstorm Impact Reduction Program Hurricane expert Max May-field and Rep. Jim Davis attempted to make long-range predictions about future events that will affect the Florida insurance industry during the annual Windstorm Insurance Network Conference in Tampa. The conference drew …
