George W. Bush News

(Reader’s Choice) The Top 10 Golf Resorts

Looking for a great course to woo your next client on the fairway? Insurance Journal readers voted for their favorite golf resort…. And the results are in! We gathered reader comments as to why they voted for their particular chosen …

21st Century Board Names Widdicombe CEO, Raises Dividend

Plantation, Fla.-based 21st Century Holding Company announced that Richard A. Widdicombe was appointed by its Board of Directors to serve as the company’s CEO. The Board also announced it will raise the company’s dividend by 29 percent from $.07 per …

Aon Names D. Cameron Findlay General Counsel

Chicago-based Aon Corp. announced that D. Cameron Findlay, 43, currently the U.S. Deputy Secretary of Labor, will join the company as executive vice president and general counsel Aug. 1. Findlay will succeed Raymond I. Skilling, who earlier this year announced …

Ark. Regulator Tapped for Presidential Appointment

Arkansas State Insurance Commissioner Mike Pickens announced that President George W. Bush appointed the Insurance Department’s Deputy Commissioner John Hartnedy to the Department of Defense Retirement Board of Actuaries. As part of a three-member panel board, Deputy Commissioner Hartnedy will …

Med Mal Fever: When Doctors Walk Out, Politicians Notice

They’re baaack. High-flying medical malpractice liability claims losses, that is. The availability crisis of the 1970s and the affordability crisis of the 1980s may be nothing compared to the crisis insurers and doctors face this time around. Almost 8 percent …

N.D. Work Comp to Cover Smallpox Vaccine Reactions

North Dakota Workers’ Compensation (NDWC) plans to cover potential health-care workers’ and emergency responders’ adverse reactions to the smallpox vaccine during phase two of the national program to immunize the “first responders” to a dreaded smallpox terrorist attack. NDWC announced …

Med Mal Fever: When Doctors Walk Out, Politicians Notice

They’re baaack. High-flying medical malpractice liability claims losses, that is. The availability crisis of the 1970s and the affordability crisis of the 1980s may be nothing compared to the crisis insurers and doctors face this time around. Almost 8 percent …

Doctors Pen Letter to Pres. Bush Regarding Med-Mal Crisis

Following remarks by President Bush, Thursday in Scranton, Pa., where he addressed the medical malpractice insurance crisis sweeping the nation, a letter was forwarded to the White House from a group of doctors. January 16, 2003 The Honorable George W. …

New Roles for Wesch and Cooper on Texas Mutual Board

Texas Mutual Insurance Company’s board of directors unanimously elected Richard Cooper to serve as the board’s secretary and George W. Wesch, Jr. to serve as vice chair beginning January 1, 2003. Governor George W. Bush appointed both men to the …

ISO Files Policy Forms and Rules for Insurers to Meet Terrorism Coverage

Insurance Services Office, Inc. (ISO) has filed with all state insurance regulators the commercial insurance policy forms carriers can use to sell terrorism coverage. The new ISO-developed forms contain standardized policy contract language for underwriting terrorism coverage in existing policies …