GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.—The vote by the Michigan Legislature’s Joint Committee on Administrative Rules to file a notice of objection to Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s rule banning the use of credit scores in underwriting was perhaps symbolic of where the Wolverine …
While President Bush’s effort to remake Social Security from a social welfare program into a vehicle for individual retirement savings has been met with tepid reaction on Capitol Hill, another of his campaign-speech mainstays has fared better. That would be …
It wouldn’t be the year after an election if someone, somewhere didn’t have some trouble with his pick for insurance commissioner. Two new Midwestern governors have hit rough spots: One for how he made his choice, and the other for …
Have you been watching the NFL playoffs? As a devotee of our country’s first national pastime–baseball–I confess to not having paid very close attention. To me, football is just the dead air on SportsCenter between basketball highlights and Hot Stove …
It’s a question we all ask as we slowly work our way into a new year. Amid the uncertainty in the marketplace and possible reverberations from the councils of government, the independent insurance agent needs more than ever to establish …
What a long, strange trip it’s been. The year started with the two Chicago-area property/casualty insurance trade groups, the National Association of Independent Insurers and the Alliance of American Insurers, merging to form the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America. …
The time seems to fly by so fast when you’re covering insurance. It’s been quite an eventful first year for Insurance Journal Midwest. We saw Near North Insurance Brokerage CEO Michael Segal convicted on dozens of federal fraud and racketeering …
Here Are the Heartlanders Who Made Insurance Headlines in 2004 What a long, strange trip it’s been. The year started with the two Chicago-area property/casualty insurance trade groups merging to form the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America. It continued …
While in Springfield, Ill., a few weeks ago covering the Professional Independent Insurance Agents of Illinois’ annual convention, I was in a serious car accident. Fortunately, it was a rental car. Fortunately, I had opted not to waive collision damage …
A five-week internal investigation at Kansas City, Mo.-based commercial-lines carrier Employers Reinsurance Corp. has so far uncovered “isolated instances” of bids inflated at the request of Marsh Inc. brokers, according to a spokesman contacted by IJ. There were fewer than …
