State Guaranty Funds. Many agency owners, producers, and CSRs believe state guaranty funds provide blank insolvency protection for any client insured by an admitted carrier. This is not true. Many state’s guaranty funds are limited to insureds of a certain …
Does your insurance organization support the community? Over the years, Insurance Journal has discovered numerous stories of how agents, brokers, wholesalers and insurers support their community. Our Dec. 16 issue of Insurance Journal magazine will share some of those stories …
Binders Redux. A binder is a temporary insurance contract. This is a fact. The Acord 75 field Description states, “A Binder is a temporary insurance contract which provides coverage in advance of the issuance of an insurance policy.” The Acord …
Date Stamping. Could any E&O blog address a simpler subject than date stamping? Maybe not, but date stamping correctly to mitigate E&O exposures is something too few agencies practice. Most agencies I visit have a practice of opening all incoming …
Dovetail Insurance, a supplier of cloud-based insurance product delivery services, is expanding its distribution of NetBOP in seven states, including Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. NetBOP is a business owners policy (BOP) insurance product developed for businesses …
Marsh & McLennan Cos., the biggest insurance broker by market value, has climbed to a 9-year high, bouncing back from the plunge that followed then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer’s lawsuit against the company. The broker has rallied 35 percent …
Impact Forecasting, the catastrophe model development center of excellence at Aon Benfield, announced that it is “helping insurers and reinsurers prepare for current and future U.S. hurricane seasons with its innovative storm surge model. “Ahead of the one-year anniversary of …
Great American Insurance Group’s Professional Liability Division has formed an alliance with the Herbert H. Landy Insurance Agency to offer professional liability insurance to real estate agents, brokers, appraisers and accountants. This new program will be available in all states, …
Insurance Journal is again on the search to find out what’s happening in the agency errors and omissions (E&O) environment. We invite you to participate in the 2013 Agency Errors & Omissions Survey, which will be published in an upcoming …
Notifying Umbrella Carriers of Potential Claims. Every reader likely knows the importance of notifying an excess/umbrella carrier of potential claims in a timely manner. When the excess/umbrella carrier is the same carrier providing underlying coverage, this is not an issue. …
