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Dallas-based wholesaler Heartland Marketing Group named Jim Bishop as president. He will be responsible for Heartland’s wholesale and excess and surplus insurance operations. Bishop joins the operation from The Hartford where he was most recently the select manager for their …

People and Places

The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America named Deputy Secretary of Commerce David A. Sampson to serve as the association’s president and chief executive officer. Sampson take over the reins of PCI on Sept. 4. PCI represents more than 1,000 …

People and Places

The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America has named Deputy Secretary of Commerce David A. Sampson to serve as the association’s president and chief executive officer. Sampson takes over the reins on Sept. 4. PCI represents more than 1,000 member …

Deputy Commerce Secretary Sampson Named President, CEO of PCI

The Board of Governors of the Ill.-based Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) has named Deputy Secretary of Commerce David A. Sampson to serve as the association’s president and chief executive officer, announced Thomas Tierney, PCI chairman. Sampson will …

Terrorism Risk Insurance Act Déjà Vu

It’s becoming a familiar song: the Federal Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) is once again due to expire on Dec. 31, 2007, and as of this writing, no long- or short-term successor program has been decided upon or finalized. The …

Terrorism Risk Insurance Act Déjà Vu

Renewal of TRIA likely to go down to the wire, again It’s becoming a familiar song: the Federal Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) is once again due to expire on Dec. 31, 2007, and as of this writing, no long- …

Protecting against floods

Flooding caused by hurricanes and tropical storms can wreak havoc along the Eastern Seaboard and Gulf Coast from June through November. However, that flood risk is not limited to summer and fall months alone, nor to just the East Coast …

German Chancellor to Make Climate Protection Top G-8 Priority

Climate protection is a top priority for German Chancellor Angela Merkel at next week’s G-8 summit, but she said in an interview released Sunday she was skeptical that the world’s industrial leaders would agree on a concrete proposal for emissions …

Protecting against floods

Agents Guide: What resources are available to better serve clients Flooding caused by hurricanes and tropical storms can wreak havoc along the Eastern Seaboard and Gulf Coast from June through November. However, that flood risk is not limited to summer …

US Calls on Asia to Take Action to Reduce Greenhouse Gases

Asian nations could reduce a quarter of their greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 if they increase renewable energy use, improve coal-fired power plant efficiency and switch to biofuels, a U.S. government report said Tuesday. However, the report from the U.S. …