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Nursing Home Liability Nuts & Bolts: Quadrant Insurance Managers, a national management general agency, has expanded its nursing home liability product into Texas. This product offers professional and general liability coverage to Texas and Florida nursing homes (skilled nursing facilities); …

News Currents

La. insurance regulators probe Allstate’s policy cancellations Louisiana insurance regulators are investigating whether Allstate Insurance Co. is canceling policies without properly inspecting homes to see if they are occupied or under construction after hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The Louisiana Department …

Declarations

Child safety “None of us wants to — as we each have done — meet with another family who has lost a child, in what is clearly a preventable death.” Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., spoke in support of legislation …

My New Markets

Nursing Home Liability Nuts & Bolts: Quadrant Insurance Managers, a national management general agency, has expanded its nursing home liability product into Texas. This product offers professional and general liability coverage to Texas and Florida nursing homes (skilled nursing facilities); …

My New Markets

Wedding Insurance Nuts & Bolts: Travelers recently announced the launch of the Wedding Protector Plan, an insurance policy covering weddings. The Wedding Protector Plan provides coverage, with no deductible, for a variety of unfortunate occurrences associated with a wedding event. …

News Currents

La. insurance regulators order Allstate to reverse cancellations Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon on Mar. 6 ordered Allstate to scrap its property inspection process that led to the cancellation of more than 4,700 homeowners policies and reinstate coverage on …

Panel Approves Maine Bill Requiring “Fire-Safe” Cigarettes

A legislative panel has given its approval to a bill to require cigarette makers to sell only self-extinguishing cigarettes in Maine. The Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee on Friday unanimously approved a bill that would add Maine to the …

My New Markets

Wedding Insurance Nuts & Bolts: Travelers recently launched Wedding Protector Plan, which provides coverage with no deductible for a variety of unfortunate occurrences associated with a wedding event. For example, coverage is provided if a hurricane causes the necessary and …

La.’s Citizens Agrees to Mass Settlement of Hurricane Suits

Louisiana’s state-run insurer has agreed to a mass settlement with more than 100 policyholders, a deal believed to be the first of its kind in the state since hurricanes Katrina and Rita spawned thousands of lawsuits, an attorney for the …

Insurance Journal’s Exclusive 2006 Agency Salary Survey

More independent insurance agencies gave salary increases in 2006 than in 2005, but still nearly half of all agency salaries nationwide stayed right where they were compared to 2005. On the other hand, producer commission rates in 2006 soared above …