Articles by Dave Thomas

Seeking Stability in the D&O World

The world of directors & officers coverage may be hanging out signs these days or posting messages on the Internet that simply read—Wanted: Stability. That commodity has been extremely hard to come by in recent years as major D&O cases …

Bolton & Company Grew with the Times

In a new series in Insurance Journal, we’ll profile agencies that have made a name for themselves in the industry with a special niche. In our first interview, we talk with California’s Bolton & Company. Run by brothers Jim and …

EPLI-Higher Prices, More Claims, Tighter Underwriting

It is often said that every situation has a light at the end of the tunnel, but the employment practices liability scene may have to squint just a little harder to see those rays of hope while higher prices, more …

Seeking Stability in the D&O World

The world of directors & officers coverage may be hanging out signs these days or posting messages on the Internet that simply read—Wanted: Stability. That commodity has been extremely hard to come by in recent years as major D&O cases …

Quackenbush Breaks the Silence

Insurance Journal senior staff writer Dave Thomas, along with publisher Mark Wells, recently caught up with former California Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush. Quackenbush, who has been working in Hawaii as a consultant, speaks about a range of topics from the …

Quackenbush – Up Close and Personal

When I returned from lunch one recent afternoon and cleared out my phone messages, one struck me immediately. The message was from a ‘Chuck Quackenbush’ and said that California’s former insurance commissioner wanted to speak with the magazine about clearing …

Quackenbush Breaks the Silence

Insurance Journal senior staff writer Dave Thomas, along with publisher Mark Wells, recently caught up with former California Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush. Quackenbush, who has been working in Hawaii as a consultant, speaks about a range of topics from the …

BCBS of South Carolina Buys Benefits Administration Co.

As of January 2003, Thomas H. Cooper & Co., a corporate benefits administration firm. was sold to BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina. Thomas H. Cooper & Co. will operate out of its Charleston office as an independent subsidiary of BlueCross. …

Fraud, Leaving its Prints on the Industry

Fraud, in all forms, is as old as the industry itself. Given a struggling economy, the temptation to create fraud against or within the industry has been on the upswing recently. According to Jim Quiggle, director of communications for the …

Yates & Associates Delivers Message and Then Some

Getting your message out successfully to customers can be the difference between being a great business, an average business, or no business at all. California-based Yates & Associates, an excess and surplus lines broker and managing general agency, has taken …