June 20, 2001
On Tuesday Maine’s Governor Angus King vetoed a workers’ compensation bill (LD 1175) that contained provisions which would have automatically entitled injured workers to full compensation during full-time rehabilitation. The American Insurance Ass’n. strongly opposed the measure. “This bill undermined …
June 11, 2001
Not surprisingly, compensation continues to be the single largest agency expense. The average independent agency in the U.S. spent between 62.2 percent and 66.3 percent on compensation in 2000, according to The Middleton Group’s biannual Compensation Survey. Some 2.3 million …
June 11, 2001
Less than half of the states are likely to have their own privacy rules in place by the July 1 deadline imposed by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), a survey conducted by the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) shows. …
June 7, 2001
With over a year remaining on the November 2002 deadline, 25 state legislatures have enacted reciprocal producer licensing laws while bills in another 11 states are awaiting the governors’ signatures. The producer licensing legislation passing in states around the country …
June 4, 2001
The Texas Workers’ Compensation Insurance Fund will become the Texas Mutual Insurance Company Sept. 1 if Gov. Rick Perry signs the bill authorizing the change. The governor has 20 days from the Legislature’s adjournment to sign H.B. 3458. No opposition …
June 4, 2001
Not surprisingly, compensation continues to be the single largest agency expense. The average independent agency in the U.S. spent between 62.2 percent and 66.3 percent on compensation in 2000, according to The Middleton Group’s biannual Compensation Survey. +20% CT DC …
May 31, 2001
Maine Governor Angus King signed into law a financial services privacy bill (LD 1640), which is, according to the American Insurance Association (AIA), consistent with the federal privacy regulations in Title V of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA). James T. Harrington, …
May 22, 2001
Less than half of the states are likely to have their own privacy rules in place by the July 1 deadline imposed by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), a survey conducted by the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) shows. …
May 21, 2001
Three major forms of American music are deeply rooted in the rolling green landscape of Tennessee—blues, rock ‘n’ roll and, in the grand old city of Nashville, country. It’s no wonder then that the theme of the AMS Users’ Group …
April 9, 2001
Officials of Sun Prairie, Wis.-based General Casualty Insurance Companies announced the acquisition of Blue Ridge Insurance Company, headquartered in Simsbury, Conn. With this acquisition, Blue Ridge became General Casualty’s sixth regional office, the first outside of its 12-state Midwestern operating …