Yes, you’ve got me. It only took until issue No. 3 of Insurance Journal Midwest to put a big ol’ non-Midwesterner on the cover. Hopefully you’ll find it in your heart to forgive me for highlighting Senate Majority Leader Bill …
The South Dakota Senate overwhelmingly passed a bill that would move the state to a file-and-use system of rate regulation while creating a set of rules to allow commercial lines insurers greater freedoms of rate and form and improve their …
When you’re rushing day-to-day just to get your work done and make sure the details are taken care of while the bottom line is in the black, it’s easy to lose perspective on the larger picture in the insurance world. …
The auto insurance market has come a long way since Travelers wrote the first third-party policy for Gilbert J. Loomis’s one-cylinder car in 1897. “I’ll never insure a gasoline can on wheels,” declared Insurance Company of North America President Charles …
Powerful Friends, Enemy Insiders and Embezzlement Charges We are destroyed as of today,” Michael Segal, owner of Chicago-based Near North National Group, told me several weeks ago in his 20th-floor office in the John Hancock Tower. The group’s subsidiary, Near …
Powerful Friends, Enemy Insiders and Embezzlement Charges We are destroyed as of today,” Michael Segal, owner of Chicago-based Near North National Group, told me several weeks ago in his 20th-floor office in the John Hancock Tower. The group’s subsidiary, Near …
Powerful Friends, Enemy Insiders and Embezzlement Charges We are destroyed as of today,” Michael Segal, owner of Chicago-based Near North National Group, told me several weeks ago in his 20th-floor office in the John Hancock Tower. The group’s subsidiary, Near …
Ohio Insurance Director Ann Womer Benjamin’s first year in office since her appointment by Republican Gov. Robert Taft has been marked principally by her efforts to get a handle on the state’s medical liability crisis. Womer Benjamin represented the 75th …
When I was 14, my father did just about the worst thing a parent can do to a child. It was the kind of thing folks talk about in psychoanalytic therapy sessions or on Oprah. That’s right — my dad …
When he was finally appointed Illinois’ new insurance director two months into a new governor’s term last March, J. Anthony Clark was put in an untenable position. He had been interviewing for a job in Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s administration …
