Nuts & Bolts: OneBeacon Insurance Group in Boston, a subsidiary of White Mountains Insurance Group Ltd., is entering the community banking and the lawyers’ professional liability markets. OneBeacon will offer a broad array of professional liability coverages targeting community banks …
Nuts & Bolts: St. Paul Travelers expanded its appetite for architects and engineers business to include a variety of construction and design consultants. Previously, only licensed or registered architects and engineers, landscape architects and land surveyors were eligible for coverage. …
Nuts & Bolts: PointSure Insurance Services launched several new specialty products, broadening its workers’ compensation capabilities and offering standard market coverage for risks often neglected due to size and class restrictions. Eligibility for these new programs encompasses more than 700 …
Brent Jenkins Crump Insurance Services of Texas Inc. appointed three new members to the Dallas property/casualty brokerage team: Brent Jenkins, Stephanie Murillo and Matt Sheehan. Additionally, Elizabeth Wafer has joined the P/C team at Crump Insurance Services of Houston Inc. …
Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of articles offering “best practices” suggestions for the hiring process in the independent agency. More information is available at iiat.org under Agency Management. In the first article of this series (Insurance …
For the clean up of New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina to progress, contractors engaged in this important work must be adequately protected from long-term and uncertain liabilities. As insurance brokers, we at Willis work with our clients …
Beginning January 3, 2006, Louisiana residents whose Hurricane Katrina or Rita insurance claims are in dispute will have the opportunity to mediate their claim at no cost, according to the Louisiana Department of Insurance. Commissioner Robert Wooley has established a …
More universities that offer insurance degrees In this second installment in a series, Insurance Journal profiled five universities that offer undergraduate and graduate degrees in insurance. More universities will be featured in future editions. Hankamer School of Business; Dept. of …
Does the world seem to be careening from one crisis to another these days or is it all hype by news outlets? Unfortunately, it’s not hype; it’s the real world. Not a day goes by without reports of terrorist threats …
This coming 2006 New Year seems like it will be the start of a year of big changes for the industry. It is not that the industry will be pulled out by its roots and shaken. Rather, many of the …
