Average premiums for health care plans rose 7.2 percent in southeastern Wisconsin compared with a 9.6 percent increase nationally, according to a survey released by United Benefit Advisors, an employee benefits advisory organization. The organization polled 125 employers in southeastern …
Senate Bill 1, Missouri’s new workers’ comp reform law, contains a drafting error the legislature intends to address during a special session set to take place in mid September. However, since the law goes into effect on Aug. 28, there …
Hilb Rogal & Hobbs Co., the world’s 10th largest insurance and risk management intermediary, has announced the opening of an office in downtown Chicago. The new HRH client team consists of three client sales executives and four client service representatives. …
Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist has announced his office has reached settlements with two companies accused of price gouging during last year’s record-setting hurricane season. Both cases involve established businesses that sold generators at prices far above their usual retail …
Midland Co.’s American Modern Insurance Group made the annual Ward’s 50 Benchmark Group of best-performing insurance companies. Cincinnati-based insurance consulting firm The Ward Group also honored Cincinnati Financial Corp. and Western & Southern Financial Group for their five-year financial performances. …
With the possibility that severe weather associated with Hurricane Katrina will cause heavy rains and potential flooding, Ohio Department of Insurance Director Ann Womer Benjamin is urging Ohioans to plan for emergency situations and review their insurance policies. The National …
State Compensation Insurance Fund announced that it is instituting a performance-based compensation plan effective for 2005 business, and that it will begin disclosing broker commissions to clients on Oct. 1 and will revise its base commission structure effective Jan. 1, …
The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research and the Professional Insurance Agents of Oregon/Idaho have announced that the PIA of Oregon/Idaho will assume administrative leadership of the Certified Insurance Counselors and Certified Insurance Service Representatives Programs in Idaho. The …
David Morse & Associates, a national claims administration and independent adjusting company based in Los Angeles, announces the opening of a new office in Reno, Nevada. This new office provides Property and Casualty field adjusting services in the Reno – …
Seven North Carolina Better Business Bureaus and 148 Chambers of Commerce are receiving letters of caution from Insurance Commissioner Jim Long urging them to warn their members and citizens about the differences between legitimate health insurance and the increasingly common …
