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One-Third of Orleans Area Residents Polled May Leave in 2 Years
Nov 29 2006 // Even among the best-off post-Katrina returnees to New Orleans and neighboring Jefferson Parish – those living in houses or apartments, rather than trailers – about one-third say they may leave the area within...
Two California State Fund Directors Resign
Nov 21 2006 // Two directors of California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund have resigned, following concerns about possible conflicts of interest, industry sources are reporting. Frank DelRe, 59, president of Western Insurance...
One in five truck drivers reports falling asleep at the wheel
Nov 20 2006 // When a tractor-trailer overturned on a Maryland road, it spilled lumber onto the roadway below and killed a motorist. The same week in a nearby Virginia community, a jury awarded $17 million to the family of a 17 year-old...
One in five truck drivers reports falling asleep at the wheel
Nov 19 2006 // When a tractor-trailer overturned on a Maryland road, it spilled lumber onto the roadway below and killed a motorist. The same week in a nearby Virginia community, a jury awarded $17 million to the family of a 17 year-old...
Three More Charged in La. AG’s Crackdown on Contractor Fraud
Nov 9 2006 // Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., recently announced that three more individuals have been arrested on charges of theft related to contractor fraud. On Oct. 23, 2006, Richard Eric Williford was arrested by...
Two Honda Sedan Models Lead List of Most Stolen Vehicles in Arizona
Nov 8 2006 // Two Honda sedan models lead the latest list of vehicles most often stolen in Arizona. According to the latest annual study by the National Insurance Crime Bureau, the 1991 Honda Accord and 1995 Honda Civic were ranked as...
Eight easy strategies for building your agency
Oct 9 2006 // While building a successful agency takes dedication and hard work, it may not be as difficult as you think. A wealth of material exists on the tangible factors and steps necessary for building a successful agency, such as...
Eight easy strategies for building your agency
Oct 9 2006 // While building a successful agency takes dedication and hard work, it may not be as difficult as you think. A wealth of material exists on the tangible factors and steps necessary for building a successful agency, such as...
Five Arrested for Theft Related to Contractor Fraud in La.
Oct 5 2006 // Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., announced that his Special Agents made arrests for theft of funds related to alleged contractor fraud in the New Orleans area following Hurricane Katrina. On Sept. 25, 2006,...
Two to Head Logistics Initiative in Aon’s Chicago Office
Sep 27 2006 // Chicago-based Aon Corporation announced the appointment of Barbara Spain as senior vice president and relationship manager, and Matt Reese as senior vice president and originator, for Aon Risk Services. Both will drive the...
One Year After Hurricane Rita Texas Insurers Offer Advice
Sep 22 2006 // As we approach the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Rita’s visit to Texas, residents along the Gulf Coast of Texas can and have learned a lot about the devastating effects of a hurricane, an insurance industry...
Five Vice Presidents Take New Positions at Blue Shield of California
Sep 20 2006 // Blue Shield of California has appointed three new vice presidents and assigned new responsibilities to two current executives in areas including finance, network management, customer service and information...
Eight Lloyd’s Members to Enter Offshore Energy Center Hall of Fame
Sep 18 2006 // Eight members of the Lloyd’s market are to be honored at the end of the month by becoming some of the first insurance professionals to be inducted into the Offshore Energy Center (OEC) Hall of Fame. A bulletin on the...
Four Texas Cities to Receive Smoke Alarms
Sep 15 2006 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT), the State Fire Marshal’s Office (SFMO), Travelers Insurance Company and First Alert have joined together to place smoke alarms into the homes of limited income and elderly...
Two Calif. Insurers File For Rate Reductions
Sep 15 2006 // Two insurers have filed for rate decreases in California. According to the California Department of Insurance, 21st Century, the state’s fifth largest auto insurer, with more than 740,000 policy holders, is seeking a...
Five Years Later, House and Senate Move Port Security Measure
Sep 10 2006 // Days before the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the U.S. Senate announced agreement on ports security legislation, hoping to approve bolstered protections before November’s elections to stop nuclear materials...
Five Seek to Define N.Y. Attorney General Role After Spitzer
Sep 5 2006 // Democrat Eliot Spitzer has tackled illegal trading on Wall Street and fraudulent deals in the insurance industry and sued the federal government to force environmental protections in his nearly eight years as attorney...
Six in 10 businesses now buying terror coverage, Marsh reports
Sep 4 2006 // Nearly six in 10 large and mid-sized U.S. businesses obtained insurance to cover property terrorism risks during 2005, a dramatic increase from the 2003 average of 27 percent and up from 50 percent in 2004. Meanwhile, the...
One year later, insurers report 95 percent of Katrina claims in La. and Miss. settled
Sep 4 2006 // One year after Hurricane Katrina, the insurance in-dustry says that nearly 95 percent of homeowners insurance claims have been settled in Louisiana and Mississippi, insurance companies have paid billions in storm damage...
One year later, insurers report 95 percent of Katrina claims in La. and Miss. settled
Sep 4 2006 // One year after Hurricane Katrina, the insurance in-dustry says that nearly 95 percent of homeowners insurance claims have been settled in Louisiana and Mississippi, insurance companies have paid billions in storm damage...
