March 8, 2004
Vincent Donnelly PMA Capital Corp. has appointed Vincent T. Donnelly as its new president and chief executive officer. He has headed the PMA Insurance Group as its president for the last seven years and will retain that position. Donnelly brings …
March 8, 2004
Kay Johnson’s western Massachusetts Big Brothers Big Sisters agency has never been hit with a claim of child sexual abuse. Yet its cost for insurance to cover such claims has more than tripled in the past year, forcing Johnson to …
March 8, 2004
The homes are among the most desirable on the East Coast. Their wealthy owners have maintenance staffs and landscapers to keep the properties in shape. They install the latest fire prevention and security features and, as one agent says, they …
March 8, 2004
Fire marshals across the nation scurried to review inspections of nightclubs after sparks from a rock band’s pyrotechnics set fire to a Rhode Island club, killing 100 people and injuring scores of others a year ago. At least 15 states …
March 8, 2004
While most attention has been focused on reforming this state’s private passenger auto insurance residual market, progress is slowly being made in another area agents say is critical: the commercial auto residual market. By Jan. 1, 2005, agents and some …
March 8, 2004
Last fall at a University of Virginia Law School forum on tort reform, some of the nation’s top tort experts agreed there were no easy answers on how to solve the nation’s longstanding love-hate relationship with torts, but they did …
March 8, 2004
As an agent or broker, it can be frustrating to reveal an exorbitant price tag on a premium for a client. No one likes to hear that their insurance coverage is difficult to obtain, and if that, at a high …
March 8, 2004
As an agent or broker, it can be frustrating to reveal an exorbitant price tag on a premium for a client. No one likes to hear that their insurance coverage is difficult to obtain, and if that, at a high …
March 8, 2004
Industry executives in the workers’ compensation field from across the nation gathered in Las Vegas Feb. 5-6 for the 5th Annual AMCOMP (American Society of Workers’ Comp Professionals Inc.) Meeting & Conference. The two-day conference featured several panels and seminars, …
March 4, 2004
The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America and the American Insurance Association have both gone on record as opposed to a bill being considered by the Joint Committee on Taxation that places insurers in the awkward position of assisting the …