May 23, 2005
Nuts & Bolts: Indemnity Excess & Surplus Agency is offering a new recruiters professional package specifically designed for permanent employment placement firms with up to $3 million in revenue. Product features include errors and omissions, employment practices liability and business …
May 23, 2005
Nuts & Bolts: Kent Wholesale Insurance Brokers LLC is now offering elder care insurance coverage. This program is designed to provide general liability, professional liability and property coverage for small- to medium-sized adult assisted living, residential care and skilled nursing …
May 23, 2005
Dollars: Provides four levels of limits for each of the following types of coverages: Customer Inconvenience, Employee Dishonesty, Expediting Expense, Extortion Coverage, Food Contamination, Lost Master Key, Spoilage, Trees, Shrubs & Plants, Computer Fraud. Customers may purchase all coverages for …
May 23, 2005
How do you convince overworked state prosecutors to chase down often stale-sounding insurance swindles when their case files already are bulging with high-profile crimes such as drugs, robbery and murder? Insurance-fraud laws are great motivators: State prosecutors can convict con …
May 23, 2005
As an increasing number of state regulators conduct inquiries and tighten accounting rules and reporting requirements for finite reinsurance transactions, one P/C trade group is urging regulators to take a consistent approach and avoid creating a crazy-quilt of confusing investigative …
May 23, 2005
A study by a Michigan State University epidemiologist finds that very few Americans are doing all they can to maintain a healthy life, a situation he said could have dire consequences if it doesn’t change. The research of Mathew Reeves, …
May 23, 2005
More than 730,000 people in the United States filed compensation claims for asbestos-related injuries from the early 1970s through the end of 2002, costing businesses and insurance companies more than $70 billion, the RAND Corporation reported. Claimants have received about …
May 23, 2005
Former State Fund President Jack Webb, one of the most influential and colorful figures in the 91-year history of California’s workers’ compensation insurance system, died May 2, 2005. Webb had been undergoing treatment for lung cancer. A Petaluma, California resident, …
May 23, 2005
New Hampshire is the only state that doesn’t require adult motorists to wear seat belts, but it does ticket drivers for eating, drinking, talking on a cell phone or fussing with their makeup while behind the wheel. The state whose …
May 23, 2005
Over time, as the family grows in size, member interests, goals and values become increasingly different,” Craig E. Aronoff, Ph.D. told an audience of family-owned and operated agencies during two presentations on “The Family Challenge” and “Ownership and Fin-ancial Challenges,” …