Nuts & Bolts: Sandy, Utah-based Prime Ins. Syndicate Inc. is offering excess and surplus lines products to contractors and developers, including contractors liability coverage for property/casualty in both residential and commercial business and general liability coverage for premises, work performed …
Nuts & Bolts: CalSurance launched a specialized errors and omissions program for broker-dealers with 75 or fewer registered representatives. CalSurance and Quanta Specialty Lines Ins. Co. have teamed up to offer this program. The E&O program provides protection against claims …
Model legislation created to address guaranty fund insolvency issues has been passed in several key states in the 2004 legislative sessions, putting reform efforts on the right path, according to the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI). All or …
The fire season started early this year. Wildfires erupted all over California and in Nevada in mid-July, forcing thousands to evacuate and destroying several homes and outbuildings. Affected areas in California included northwest Los Angeles County, Riverside County, Palm Springs, …
Robert Falsarella Robert E. (Bob) Falsarella has joined Santa Rosa, Calif.-based George Rothert Insurance Services as the firm’s newest senior underwriter. Falsarella, a commercial-lines underwriter, has a background in developing refined professional-liability programs, and as an insurance agent. He joins …
Chicago-based CNA Surety Corp. announced that Robert A. Tinstman, executive chairman of James Construction Group, joined its board of directors effective Aug. 11, 2004. Tinstman will replace Ken Miller, who resigned from the board for personal reasons. Tinstman is a …
Acordia Inc., a Wells Fargo Company, announced that Stuart Young has been appointed managing director in Acordia’s Central Region. Based in its Salt Lake City office, Young will be responsible for overseeing Acordia’s Idaho, New Mexico and Utah operations. Young …
There are multiple ways to grow your agency’s bottom line. The most exciting way is, of course, to sell more policies. You logically devote most of your energies to this essential activity because it’s the best way to build your …
Los Angeles-based David Morse & Associates celebrates its 25th anniversary July 27. After its start in 1979 the company grew to become the largest independent adjusting firm in California, with 19 field offices in the state. From there DM&A continued …
The use of loss history reports in underwriting homeowners insurance policies was the subject of seminars held recently in Oregon and Idaho. Sam Sorich, Western Region vice president for the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI), and Lynn Knauf, …
