California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner has filed amicus briefs in the appeal of the Ogilvie v. City and County of San Francisco, Almaraz v. Environmental Recovery Services and Guzman v. Milpitas Unified School District en banc decisions, urging the state …
Jesse Huff has been appointed Chief Deputy Commissioner for the California Department of Insurance effective June 1. Huff will replace outgoing Chief Deputy Jim Richardson, who is leaving CDI to be the president of The Dentists’ Insurance Co. Huff has …
Washington’s Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) honored the memories of 81 workers who died as a result of job-related injuries or illnesses in Washington in 2008 at a Worker Memorial Day ceremony April 28. The ceremony held at L&I …
The Nebraska Department of Insurance announced that Mike Engel will begin employment as an insurance fraud investigator on May 13. Engel comes to the Division with 30 years experience with the Lincoln Police Department.
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Insurance premiums for businesses continued to slide towards a “soft landing” rather than an abrupt reversal resulting in rate increases, according to risk managers. While banks and other financial institutions bought directors and officers (D&O) insurance at substantially higher rates, …
Web 2.0 Tools Enhance the Face-to-Face Interactions in the Industry Insurance firms that have used the tools of Web 2.0 appear to be won over for good, and have little to say that is negative. McAuley, Woods & Associates, a …
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Don’t Lose Sight of the Greater Risks We Face No one could fail to have noticed that we are in the grip of a recession. With unemployment affecting 2 million in the United Kingdom, interest rates almost at zero and …
