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Survey: Risk Managers More Concerned About Total Cost of Risk

Jul 14 2010 // Corporate risk and finance managers, faced with the lingering effects of a global financial crisis, dramatically downsized staffs and reduced budgets are becoming increasingly concerned about managing those expenditures as...

American Claims Management Completes Annual SAS 70 Type II Audit

Dec 14 2009 // San Diego, CA, 12/14/09 – American Claims Management, Inc. (ACM), a leading third party administrator (TPA) of insurance claims services, announced today that it has received its Statement on Auditing Standards No....

Louisiana Commissioner: Session Successful for Insurance Bills

Jul 2 2009 // Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon says the recently adjourned 2009 Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature was a success when it came to insurance legislation. The Department of Insurance (DOI) saw 20...

Mutual Assurance Acquires Tennessee-based Pittman & Associates

Jul 22 2008 // Mutual Assurance Administrators Inc. (MAA) of Oklahoma City has acquired Pittman & Associates Inc. (P&A) of Tennessee. Mutual Assurance Administrators Inc. is a third-party administrator specializing in...

Texas Produce Association Earns Dividend from Texas Mutual

Apr 3 2008 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced that members of the Texas Produce Association (TPA) workers’ compensation purchasing group will share in a $53,732 dividend. The dividend is based largely on the group’s...

Meadowbrook/TPA Associates Appoints Whooley as New England Rep

Jul 26 2007 // Kevin S. Whooley has been appointed as a marketing representative at Meadowbrook/TPA Associates, a member of the Meadowbrook Insurance Group. In this role, Whooley will work with independent agents throughout New England...

Valley Oak Systems Hires Wedster as VP of Product Development

Jul 5 2007 // San Ramon, Calif.-based Valley Oak Systems Inc., an Aon company, announced that James Wedster has joined the company as vice president of product development. Part of Aon’s premier distribution network, Valley Oak...

Meadowbrook/ TPA Associates Names DiPietro Senior VP

May 11 2007 // Carol L. DiPietro has been appointed senior vice president of field operations of Meadowbrook/TPA Associates, a member of the Meadowbrook Insurance Group. She is based in the firm’s Andover, Mass. office. In this...

Guy Carpenter Releases Annual Specialty Program Market Survey

Sep 13 2006 // Guy Carpenter & Company Inc., the global risk and reinsurance specialist and a part of the Marsh & McLennan Companies, has released its second annual survey of domestic insurance companies that write substantial...

Southeast TPA David Morse Buys ISAC

Aug 22 2006 // David Morse & Associates, providers of third-party administrator services, field adjusting services, specialty claims services, and fraud investigations, has announced that Insurance Servicing & Adjusting Company...

Crawford Acquires TPA Broadspire Services for $150M

Aug 22 2006 // Insurance claims management firm Crawford & Company and Platinum Equity have signed a deal under which Crawford will acquire Platinum’company Broadspire Services, a third-party administrator. Broadspire...

W.F. Clayton Relicenses FormsPlus Enterprise

May 2 2006 // Allen Beggs, President and co founder of QualCorp, Inc. announced that W.F. Clayton of Hackensack, NJ, will be relicensing the FormsPlus Enterprise product for their office for an additional two years. THE TASK W.F....

Texas Produce Association Group Earns $16K Dividend

Feb 27 2006 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced a $16,447 purchasing group dividend for the Texas Produce Association (TPA) purchasing group. The TPA group dividend is separate from the approximately $50 million in individual...

Meadowbrook/TPA Returns $2.5M to Mass. Workers’ Comp Self-Insureds

Feb 22 2006 // Meadowbrook/TPA Associates, a third-party administrator of self-insured workers’ compensation programs, announced it is distributing $2,475,000 in dividends to 475 Massachusetts businesses that are members of the...

Guy Carpenter Publishes Specialty Program Survey

May 3 2005 // Guy Carpenter & Company Inc., a global risk and reinsurance specialist and a part of the Marsh & McLennan Companies, has announced the results of its premier survey of domestic insurance companies that write a...

CNA Sells Med-Mal TPA

Apr 4 2005 // Chicago-based commercial insurer CNA Financial Corp. announced it has completed the sale of Caronia Corp., a third-party claims administrator focused on medical professional liability, to Octagon Risk Services Inc., a...

GREAT AMERICAN, GALLAGHER’S TPA HEAR FROM SPITZER:

Dec 20 2004 // Cincinnati-based American Financial Group Inc. announced that its property/ casualty insurance subsidiary, the Great American Insurance Co., has received a subpoena from the New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer’s...

Spitzer Subpoenas Gallagher TPA

Dec 3 2004 // Itasca, Ill.-based Gallagher Bassett Services Inc., a third party administrator and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., received a subpoena from the office of New York Attorney General Eliot...

Anchor Claims Management Expands Client Base

Oct 28 2004 // Carrollton, Texas-based Anchor Anchor Claims Management Inc., (ACM), an affiliate of the Combined Independent Agencies, announced that it is expanding its client base to include certified self-insurers, and self-funded...

Fiduciary Liability: The Most Misunderstood of Management Exposures

Sep 20 2004 // In the early 1960s, life in the United States was lived at a slower pace. Transportation and communication required more time (and patience) and employees were more inclined to trust employers on issues relating to...