The Hanover Group Expands Out West, Enters Agreement With OneBeacon The Hanover Insurance Group Inc.’s CEO Frederick H. Eppinger expects the western United States to be a key growth driver for the super-regional insurer in the next several years. Having …
Low-wage workers in Los Angeles experience more wage and labor violations than low-wage workers in Chicago and New York, a new study by the UCLA’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment has found. The survey found that low-wage workers …
Californians can expect more tax increases and cuts in state services, but it’s unlikely that a sale of some of the state workers’ compensation insurer’s assets will be used to shore-up the budget. In his State of the State 2010 …
Insurance companies must pay the legal costs of consumer challenges to insurance rate increases, even if they withdraw or settle challenges to rate applications before a formal hearing on their application is called, a California Court of Appeal has ruled. …
Dhananjay Nayakankuppam, a professor of marketing in the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa, is an expert in what is known as the contagion effect, an irrational belief that the qualities of something can somehow rub off …
Like many other insurance industry groups the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America (IIABA or Big “I”) has found a lot not to like in the healthcare reform bill recently passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. The Big …
But Consumer Group Says Insurer’s Measure Would Harm More Than Help Insureds Insurer-backed Californians for Fair Auto Insurance Rates (CalFAIR) is promoting a voter initiative that would reward drivers who have had insurance for some time with a “persistency discount,” …
Golf is often the sport of choice when insurance groups pick an activity for their charity fundraiser. But the insurance industry in San Diego has found it can strike up just as much fun with bowling. The San Diego Insurance …
Main Street businesses may still be trying to recuperate from the recession, but independent insurance agencies report that it has not been as disruptive as initially predicted, an exclusive survey reveals. The survey — “How Independent Agents View Carriers: The …
Troubling allegations have surfaced over the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s handling of research and warnings about the safety of cell phone use by drivers. Main Street insurance agents and the industry in general, should be angry. Recently, The Center …
