September 25, 2006
Peak hurricane season has arrived. Despite this season’s slow start, people who live along the coast are constantly aware that the next big storm could take shape at any time. This year, however, all of us are also looking back …
September 25, 2006
Rutherfoord, a Roanoke, Va., insurance broker, says it is committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions and has become the first in the U.S. insurance industry to establish a carbon neutral footprint in response to the emerging risk of climate …
September 25, 2006
Think how few things any of us wears, uses or drives that are wholly made in the USA, and that provides a sense of the magnitude of international trade. International trade also is no longer the domain of global giants …
September 25, 2006
Spitzer’s Republican opponent for governor called the action proof of “the phony nature of many cases pursued by Eliot Spitzer.” News Currents New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has dropped two of six civil charges against former American International Group …
September 25, 2006
If the immediate hurricane trend does continue, there may be another storm that the insurance industry will have to weather: a political storm. With lots of luck, the second half of the 2006 hurricane season will be as uneventful for …
September 25, 2006
Liability Long Term Care Facilities Nuts & Bolts: Houston, Texas-based London American Risk Specialists Inc. is offering CareSurance, a liability insurance program for skilled, assisted and independent long term care facilities. The program also includes risk management tools from LTCQ …
September 25, 2006
N12 SPOTLIGHT: Premiums grow 11.5% in 2005 10 Mass. AG fights FAIR Plan 852 Interview with N.J. Commissioner Goldman
September 25, 2006
Steven M. Goldman was sworn in as Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance on March 20, 2006, after the Senate Judiciary Committee and full Senate unanimously approved his appointment. Prior to his nomination by Gov. Jon …
September 25, 2006
Miami insurance agent Alex Soto has been inaugurated as the new president of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”), with Robert E. Fulwider and C. Brett Nilsson assuming the offices of president-elect and vice president, …
September 25, 2006
Crime down in N.Y. Overall crime rates continued to decline in New York during 2005 as vehicle thefts dropped almost 13 percent and robberies edged up from 2004, according to a Federal Bureau of Investigation report. The rate of violent …