A warning to prepare for the worst and hope for the best has been issued by researchers who discovered late last year that when Hurricane Ivan tore across the southeastern U.S. it brought with it wind-borne soybean rust spores. Soybean …
Support Windstorm Impact Reduction Program Hurricane expert Max May-field and Rep. Jim Davis attempted to make long-range predictions about future events that will affect the Florida insurance industry during the annual Windstorm Insurance Network Conference in Tampa. The conference drew …
Medicaid reform, changing term limits and ethics will be three major issues of concern to the Florida Legislature during upcoming meetings and through 2006, Ron Villella, Professional Insurance Agents of Florida lobbyist said in introductory remarks in Tallahassee during PIAF’s …
A warning to prepare for the worst and hope for the best has been issued by researchers who discovered late last year that when Hurricane Ivan tore across the southeastern U.S. it brought with it wind-borne soybean rust spores. Soybean …
With the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act expiring at the end of this year, the National Conference of Insurance Legislators Task Force on Terrorism agreed during meetings in Hilton Head, S.C. to resurrect a resolution proposed last year urging congressmen not …
States will soon require minimum training, education and knowledge requirements for insurance agents who write flood insurance, Ed Pasterick, an industry relations spokesman for the Federal Emergency Management Agency told the National Conference of Insurance Regulators Property-Casualty Insurance Committee on …
A resolution supporting ergonomics guidelines for nursing homes and encouraging such facilities to use alternative mechanical lifting methods was unanimously approved on Thursday by the Workers’ Compensation Committee at the spring National Conference of Insurance Legislators in Hilton Head, S.C. …
This month I attended several conferences, first, the Windstorm Insurance Network Conference in Tampa, at which several well-known and interesting experts were speaking, including Max Mayfield, the veteran director of the Tropical Prediction Center/National Hurricane Center in Miami, and Rep. …
Rising property prices and a healthy economy after the election year have encouraged competition for casualty business. Although account size is sometimes a factor in the directions prices move, E&S specialists say they are doing fine selling to a large …
ChoicePoint’s Clue Auto, Clue Property and Current Carrier insurance industry databases were not in any way involved or compromised by the fraud ring that obtained data from other ChoicePoint databases of public record information, according to Richard Collier, vice president …
