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Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Purchases Wisconsin’s Chris Schroeder Insurance Inc.
Apr 29 2005 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced the acquisition of Chris Schroeder Insurance Inc. of Milwaukee. Founded in 1888, Chris Schroeder Insurance Inc. is a property/casualty retail insurance broker offering risk...
Arthur J. Gallagher Reports Q1 Revenue Growth
Apr 26 2005 // Illinois-based Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has reported its financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2005. “Gallagher continues to do what it does best even in these challenging times — solve our...
Territory Map Plan Struck From Fla. House Bill; Senate Passed It
Apr 18 2005 // A proposal that would create a single Florida-wide territory map and eliminate individual rate territories based on predicted hurricane risks and expected loss models was removed from House legislation, but was approved on...
The Parker Group Buys Gallagher Benefit Administrators
Apr 14 2005 // Lubbock, Texas-based The Parker Group, a health care and benefits management holding company, announced it has closed on the acquisition of Gallagher Benefit Administrators Inc., a national third-party employee benefits...
Single Territory Map Plan Struck From Fla. House Bill, Remains in Senate Version
Apr 4 2005 // A proposal which would create a single Florida-wide territory map and eliminate individual rate territories based on predicted hurricane risks and expected loss models was removed from House hurricane legislation last...
Push Underway for Tough Fla. Insurance Fraud Laws
Apr 4 2005 // Tough legislation to increase fraud penalties in Florida for filing fraudulent auto crash reports that can be used to bilk insurance companies, to strengthen consumers’ rights to sue operators of unauthorized...
Hurricane Victims Need Help!
Apr 4 2005 // When I attended the Florida Department of Financial Services town hall meeting in Orlando I got a glimpse of what many insurance agents must have encountered after last year’s hurricanes–how the heck did you...
Pleas for Help Made at Orlando Town Hall Meetings; Gallagher to Suggest ‘Standard’ Policies
Apr 4 2005 // Tom Gallagher, Florida’s CEO and House Insurance Committee Chair Rep. Dennis A. Ross, R-Lakeland, listened intently to hurricane-related complaints–from families with nowhere to live, to homeowners with $500...
Fla. CFO Seeks to Clarify Reported Confusion with Storm Claims, Outlines Options to Help Consumers
Mar 30 2005 // Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher on Wednesday raised concerns with confusing policy language and recommended solutions for helping consumers navigate through their homeowners insurance policies and...
April Town Hall Meetings Schedule, Locations Announced in Fort Pierce, Jupiter, Bartow
Mar 29 2005 // Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher has announced that due to overwhelming responses at the four town hall meetings held so far, three additional town hall meetings have been scheduled in April. Gallagher...
People & Places
Mar 21 2005 // Douglas McDonough Citizens and Hanover Insurance Companies have named Douglas H. McDonoughregional president of their emerging Mid-Atlantic region. In this role, he will manage all aspects of sales and distribution for the...
People & Places
Mar 21 2005 // Robert Bothwell Robert J. Bothwell has been appointed managing director of Beecher Carlson Holdings Inc.’s new office in Boston. Bothwell, a former principal at William Gallagher Associates will also head the...
Florida, Alabama Get Tough on Unpaid Claims
Mar 21 2005 // Thousands of irate homeowners mobbed state insurance officials in Florida and Alabama to complain about a wait of more than six months for their claims to be settled from the 2004 hurricanes. Tom Gall-agher, Florida Chief...
Victims Ask for Help at Town Hall Meetings; Gallagher to Propose ‘Standard’ Policies
Mar 21 2005 // Tom Gallagher, Florida’s CEO and House Insurance Committee Chair Rep. Dennis A. Ross, R-Lakeland, listened intently to an array of hurricane-related complaints – from families with nowhere to live to homeowners...
Fla. Cabinet’s Emergency Rule ‘Holds Insurers Feet to the Fire’ to Expedite Open Hurricane Claims
Mar 18 2005 // In response to a call by the Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher, Gov. Jeb Bush and the Cabinet has approved an emergency rule to expedite the resolution of open claims from last year’s tropical...
CFO Slates Meetings March 19 in Orlando; April 2 in Ft. Pierce, Fla.
Mar 16 2005 // Florida homeowners will still have two opportunities to discuss hurricane-related insurance problems with CFO Tom Gallagher, his staff and insurance company representatives March 19 in Orlando and April 2 in Fort...
Fla. CEO Misses Fort Pierce Meeting Due to ‘Miscommunications’
Mar 15 2005 // More than 100 homeowners, clutching manila file folders full of hurricane-related paperwork, newspaper reporters and other interested persons milled around the Fort Pierce, Fla. City Hall on March 11 waiting for...
500 Consumers Attend Punta Gorda, Fla. Town Hall Meetings; Gallagher, Insurance Reps Hear Complaints
Mar 14 2005 // More than 100 consumers spent five-and-a-half hours March 12 voicing their concerns about unpaid insurance claims in the aftermath of Hurricane Charley at a town hall meeting in Punta Gorda, Fla. attended by Chief...
Bothwell to Manage Beecher Carlson in Boston
Mar 7 2005 // Beecher Carlson Holdings, Inc. has opened a Boston area office and appointed Robert J. Bothwell to lead the office as managing director in addition to heading the company’s National Energy Practice. The firm also...
March 1 Deadline to Apply for Multiple-Deductible Relief
Feb 18 2005 // March 1 is the deadline for Florida homeowners who paid multiple hurricane deductibles to apply for relief from the state according to Tom Gallagher, Chief Financial Officer. The program was created to avoid the terrible...
