The strong likelihood of new tort reform legislation and the addition of 200 new member agencies are the biggest achievements of Andre Juneau’s one-year tenure, the outgoing president of the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) told Insurance Journal. While …
What have you done in the last six months? Former Louisiana Commissioner Jim Brown lost 28 pounds, read 100 books, cooked for hundreds of people daily and squeezed in a weekly World Wide Web column between two book projects. Of …
Every day, agents and brokers use financial strength ratings of insurers in their business. A carrier’s ratings may affect an agent’s ability to place risks with that insurer, or the client’s willingness to be insured by a vulnerable carrier, given …
Only weeks ago it seemed that a series of well-publicized doctor walkouts across the nation had led not only to political pressure to enact malpractice award caps in crisis states but action at the national level as well. Now it …
Only weeks ago it seemed that a series of well-publicized doctor walkouts across the nation had led not only to political pressure to enact malpractice award caps in crisis states but action at the national level as well. Now it …
A report released at the recent Risk & Insurance Management Society (RIMS) conference in Chicago found that after only two years of double-digit percentage premium increases, the property market has already begun to soften. The question then posed at the …
The recent nightclub tragedies in Chicago and Rhode Island, which all told killed 120 people, will lead to stricter underwriting and discourage new carriers from entering that volatile market, according to a broker who has placed entertainment risks for 10 …
The recent nightclub tragedies in Chicago and Rhode Island, which all told killed 120 people, will lead to stricter underwriting and discourage new carriers from entering that volatile market, according to a broker who has placed entertainment risks for 10 …
Credit scoring, CLUE reports become targets of Commissioner Garamendi’s Ire The hard market has hit California homeowners hard. State Farm, which had nearly 23 percent market share in the state in 2001 according to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners …
Agents should understand the unintended effects of their agency’s practices on legally protected groups and should ignore emerging minority markets at their peril, a management consultant told a group of Illinois agents Wednesday. Cheryl Koch, an agency management consultant and …
