November 2, 2015
So far it’s been an “unusual year” for surplus lines in California. Filed premiums were up 14.1 percent in October from the same month last year, but that increase followed a 38.3 percent year-over-year drop in September, new figures from …
November 2, 2015
An attorney representing a woman suing Farmers Insurance for discriminatory practices filed a motion in mid-October seeking class action status in a suit she says could potentially encompass 300 female attorneys. The attorney also added five new women to the …
November 2, 2015
FRESNO, CALIFORNIA Der Manouel Best Agency to Work For – West Best Agency in West: Der Manouel, Where Improvement Is Key Building a great agency starts with building great people. That should be the slogan for Der Manouel Insurance Group …
November 2, 2015
Carriers are spending big on advertising, and agencies are working to become increasingly more sophisticated and reach out to more and more people. In the world of insurance, that’s just doing business as usual. But the efforts seem seem to …
October 29, 2015
With fresh news out on the global economic cost of climate change, an enticing climate fiction contest and a sweet victory for this column, it would take until Christmas to individually cover it all in a bimonthly space. So I’ll …
October 19, 2015
Carriers are spending big on advertising, and agencies are working to become increasingly more sophisticated and reach out to more and more people. In the world of insurance, that’s just doing business as usual. But the efforts seem seem to …
October 19, 2015
A new study on worker’s compensation across 17 states shows that reforms sometimes work — and such is the case of sweeping reforms made in California, the report shows. The Workers Compensation Research Institute, an independent, not-for-profit research organization based …
October 19, 2015
Best Agency to Work For – West SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA SES Insurance Brokerage Services Inc. Sharing is caring — that goes for your community and your employees. That’s the attitude at Santa Ana, Calif.-based SES Insurance Brokerage Services Inc., which …
October 15, 2015
An attorney representing a woman suing Farmers Insurance for discriminatory practices was set to file a motion on Thursday seeking class action status in a suit she says could potentially encompass 300 female attorneys. The attorney also added five new …
October 15, 2015
The drought-plagued western U.S. has had more than its share of fires this year – but this may not be the last year that the nation sees so many wildfires gone wild. A Yale University professor looking back over the …