Monthly Archives: <span>January 2007</span>

IMACC Launches New Web Services, New Slogan

NAPERVILLE, IL – IMACC announced today that their new website is now available at http://www.imacc.net. Among the new service offerings is an Online Response Center (ORC) allowing claims to be submitted online. Users will also notice the new IMACC slogan, …

Strategic Independent Agents Alliance Signs 2,100 Member

Strategic Independent Agents Alliance (SIAA), announced today that Barkema Insurance of Murray, Iowa has officially become SIAA’s 2,100th Independent Strategic Member Agency. Barkema Insurance joins the Midwest Insurance Agency Alliance (MIAA) master agency network in Lincoln, Neb. Barkema Insurance has …

Arrowhead Wholesale Offers Trucking Insurance

Arrowhead Wholesale Insurance Services LLC of San Diego, Calif., is announcing a new “A-” VIII rated admitted trucking carrier in California. The program provides coverage for physical damage, motor cargo, and trucking liability with optional non-trucking liability and package policies …

Tiner to Leave FSA

John Tiner, CEO of the UK’s Financial Services Authority (FSA), has announced that he intends to step down later this year. He will continue as CEO and a member of the FSA board until July 2007. “By the time I …

Burns & Wilcox To Offer Commercial Earthquake Coverage

Burns & Wilcox, a Farmington Hills, Mich.-based national specialty insurance wholesaler, underwriter and managing general agent, is offering of a new commercial “all risks” property program that includes hard-to-find earthquake coverage in California. The Chubb Surplus Lines Property market, offered …

AXA Ratings ‘Unaffected’ by Paris Re Sale says S&P; Comments on Guarantee

Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has stated that its rating and outlook on French reinsurer AXA Re (currently “AA-“/Stable) “are unaffected by the completion of the sale of AXA Re’s business to newly formed, and as yet unrated, Bermuda-based PARIS …

Catholic Healthcare West Agrees to Settlement

A Superior Court judge has approved a settlement providing as much as $423 million in refunds and discounts to nearly 800,000 uninsured patients at Catholic Healthcare West hospitals. The nonprofit company operates 43 hospitals in California, Nevada and Arizona. It …

California Citrus Growers Face Big Losses as Cold Snap Continues

California’s $1 billion citrus industry suffered record-low temperatures this past weekend, and agriculture officials continue to worry about widespread crop destruction. Counties where most of the state’s oranges, lemons and tangerines are grown saw temperatures plummet into the teens to …

CPCU To Host National Leadership Institute in Denver

On February 21, the CPCU Society and the Society’s Chapter will be hosting a CPCU Society National Leadership Institute (NLI) course: “Leadership and Ethics—The Power to Succeed.” This course has been approved for four continuing education credits in Colorado and …

Ark. Work Comp Commission Gets New Labor Representative

Philip Alan Hood on Jan.9, 2007, was named by Gov. Mike Beebe as the labor representative for the Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission, AWCC announced. He was appointed by the governor to a six-year term after serving an appointment at another …