Monthly Archives: <span>April 2006</span>

Your top salespeople may not be the best sales managers

Above-average salespeople were two times as likely to be as successful with an above-average sales manager. Average salespeople, contrarily, were five times as likely to be as successful with an above-average sales manager. The frontline sales manager has the toughest …

People Hub International Ltd., a Chicago-based brokerage has named Jonathan Axel senior vice president of the Kagan-Kozberg Division at Hub International of California Insurance Services Inc., a subsidiary of the insurance brokerage. Axel will be based at the Culver City, …

Closer Look: Olympics Coverage

While Italians sadly said farewell to the Torino 2006 XX Olympic Winter Games, held Feb. 10-26, insurers are happy the event came and went without a hitch. For the first time, the International Olympic Committee purchased an event cancellation policy …

Sources: Coalition Against Insurance Fraud; Ohio Department of Insurance

Fraud Roundup Ohio pair indicted for alleged fraud, money laundering tallying $200,000 The Coalition Against Consumer Fraud and the Ohio Department of Insurance reported that two former dental office employees, Alberta Fay Clark and Tammie Creamer, have been indicted for …

Deadly storms hit Midwest again in new round of spring tornadoes

The new round of tornadoes hit the Midwest less than one month after a similar grouping of twisters, high winds and damage hit a five-state area on March 12. News Currents Another round of deadly storms hit the Midwest Sunday, …

New Markets

New Markets Excess Auto Liability Nuts & Bolts: Freberg Environmental Inc. announced an excess automobile liability program designed to provide excess limits over FEI’s hazardous material and hazardous waste trucking program with Arch Insurance Group. The Arch program provides a …

New Markets

Excess Auto Liability Nuts & Bolts: Freberg Environmental, Inc. has announced an excess automobile liability program. The program is designed to provide excess limits over FEI’s hazardous material and hazardous waste trucking program with Arch Insurance Group. The Arch program …

Business Moves

Tower Group, CastlePoint Tower Group, Inc. in New York has entered into a strategic relationship with CastlePoint Holdings, Ltd., a Bermuda-based holding company that it has sponsored. CastlePoint has been capitalized with $265 million and is now able to provide …

Hartford to charge insurers for emergency services

Fire protection and medical help remains free, but the Hartford, Conn. Fire Department is set to begin charging insurers for other emergency services. The department will begin billing insurers for certain situations such as getting people out of crushed vehicles …

Mass. makes health insurance history by making it compulsorypq”The state says the uninsured tend to be low income, par

Everyone pays their part: individuals, government, health care providers and employers,” proclaims the document outlining the latest plan to expand health insurance to all citizens in Massachusetts. The Commonwealth is sailing into uncharted waters by becoming the first state to …