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Knowledge-Sharing Technology Could Boost Insurance Underwriter Recruiting
Mar 30 2010 // The shortage of experienced property/casualty insurance underwriters is growing as senior underwriters retire and the issue is keeping carrier executives up at night, according to an industry software provider that thinks...
Zurich Launches Risk Management Tool for Technology Companies
Mar 25 2010 // Zurich has launched Zurich Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) HealthCheck Tool to help provide mid-size to large technology companies with a realistic check of their current ERM preparedness. ERM can help to uncover and...
8 New Markets in Response to Current Trends
Mar 22 2010 // Insurance Companies Generate New Programs to Bring in Additional Premium The last few years of the soft market have forced many carriers and agencies to get creative when it comes to bringing in additional premium. This...
Florida’s Market and How Surplus Lines Agents Are Faring
Mar 19 2010 // Hurricane Andrew, for all of the grief it delivered, gave wholesale broker Hull & Co. and Bruce Bowers a big opportunity. “Prior to ’92, there wasn’t much of a need for personal lines in the excess...
OneBeacon Targets Technology Firms with New E&O Coverage
Mar 9 2010 // OneBeacon Professional Insurance (OBPI) has a new technology errors and omissions (E&O) product targeted to technology firms, including application service providers, software developers, technology consulting firms,...
How Agencies Are Leveraging Social Networking
Mar 8 2010 // Technology Trailblazers Build Relationships, Business Receipts There’s no better time for insurance agents and brokers to delve into social networking technologies than now, according to those who study marketing and...
Agency Innovators: How Agencies Leverage Social Networking
Mar 7 2010 // Technology Trailblazers Build Relationships, Business Receipts There’s no better time for insurance agents and brokers to delve into social networking technologies than now, according to those who study marketing and...
State of Challenge: How Florida’s Surplus Lines Agents Are Faring
Mar 7 2010 // Interview with FSLA President Bruce Bowers Weak Economy, Insureds Going Bare, Hungry Admitted Markets and Citizens’ Low Rates Test Agents Hurricane Andrew, for all of the grief it delivered, gave wholesale broker...
Agency Innovators: How Agencies Leverage Social Networking
Mar 7 2010 // Technology Trailblazers Build Relationships, Business Receipts There’s no better time for insurance agents and brokers to delve into social networking technologies than now, according to those who study marketing and...
Security Breach Notification Laws Reinforce Need for Cyber Insurance
Mar 4 2010 // With more than 40 states now enforcing privacy and security breach notification laws, underwriters are working hard to scoop up the business this niche creates, while also tweaking their policy forms to provide the...
Zurich Enhances E&O Coverage to Address Increasing Technology Risks
Feb 12 2010 // Zurich has introduced Zurich Pro Plus, an enhanced Errors & Omissions (E&O) coverage to address the needs of a range of business professionals, including consultants, and media and information technology...
Four Steps to Using Agency Technology for Target Marketing
Feb 7 2010 // Conducting a target marketing campaign used to be cumbersome and expensive. Today, with an up-to-date agency management system, getting started is a snap. It still takes persistence to succeed, but getting going...
Four Steps to Using Agency Technology for Target Marketing
Feb 7 2010 // Conducting a target marketing campaign used to be cumbersome and expensive. Today, with an up-to-date agency management system, getting started is a snap. It still takes persistence to succeed, but getting going...
East Meets West
Jan 10 2010 // The Hanover Group Expands Out West, Enters Agreement With OneBeacon The Hanover Insurance Group Inc.’s CEO Frederick H. Eppinger expects the western United States to be a key growth driver for the super-regional...
ACE Europe Appoints Ainslie Technology and Cyber Liability Underwriter
Jan 8 2010 // The ACE European Group has appointed Iain Ainslie to the role of Technology and Cyber Liability Underwriter. ACE said the appointment underscores its “commitment to enhancing its service offering and presence in this...
Judge to Rule on Virginia Tech Shooting Lawsuits by Jan. 15
Dec 16 2009 // A judge said this week he would rule by Jan. 15 on whether to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the families of two students slain in the mass shootings at Virginia Tech. After hearing arguments, Montgomery County Circuit Court...
BRP Launches Tech General Liability, Errors & Omissions Coverage
Dec 11 2009 // Business Risk Partners (BRP), based in Windsor, Conn., now offers general liability (GL) coverage to technology firms that purchase errors and omissions (E&O) policies. Coverage is underwritten by Lloyds of...
Virginia Tech Faces $43 Million Lawsuit By Family Over Student’s Suicide
Dec 9 2009 // The family of a Virginia Tech student has filed a $43 million lawsuit, accusing the university of negligence in its response to a warning that their son was suicidal. Daniel Kim committed suicide on Dec. 9, 2007, about a...
High-Tech Flood Forecasts to Aid Midwest’s Red River Valley
Nov 13 2009 // High-tech mapping technology used to help Fargo-Moorhead, N.D., residents fight a record-setting flood last spring will be made available to the entire Red River Valley. The high-resolution elevation data, known as Light...
California Prosecutors Won’t Retry Cal Tech Arsonist
Nov 11 2009 // Federal prosecutors say they won’t retry a California Institute of Technology graduate student on arson charges for helping firebomb dozens of SUVs in the San Gabriel Valley. Monday’s decision in Los Angeles...
