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Welcome to Insurance Journal’s 2006 National Directory of Excess, Surplus and Specialty Markets, Volume 1. This exclusive biannual market directory has been designed to assist independent agents and brokers in the task of placing difficult or unusual risks. For ease-of-use …

AMC Now Offering Bundled Coverage for Farm Operations

Conway, Ark.-based American Management Corporation reported it now allows farmers to insure all of their farm operations with one policy. Through a new partnership with St. Paul Traveler’s AMC agents are able to offer farmers coverage for agriculture business needs …

Michigan Insurer Honors Top Independent Agents

American Community Mutual Insurance Company, a provider of individual and group health insurance, home-based in Livonia, Mich., honored its top-producing independent agents earlier this year. The annual event recognizes American Community’s Crystal Club, an elite group representing the top 25 …

Editor’s Note

Making those New Year’s resolutions … We all know that the New Year provides a great opportunity to commit to making a list of positive changes in our lives. Is it possible that judges in state court jurisdictions can make …

2006 construction forecast: sunny

Construction executives overall are more cautious than in the recent past two years but still generally optimistic about 2006. Builders in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas are the most optimistic while those in New England are the least. These findings …

People & Places

Dan Carmichael Ohio Casualty Corporation has completed a new five-year agreement with its current president and chief executive officer, Dan R. Carmichael. The prior contract with Carmichael was to expire on Dec. 31, 2005. Seth Davis Carmichael joined Ohio Casualty …

MED-MAL MERGER:

ProAssurance Corporation and Physicians Insurance Company of Wisconsin, Inc. have agreed to merge PIC Wisconsin into ProAssurance through a proposed stock-for-stock transaction. The companies said that the merger will expand ProAssurance’s presence in the upper Midwest and provide access to …

Patriot Act Re-authorization Nixed by U.S. Senate

The life insurance industry had a stake in a decision made on Capitol Hill on Friday when the U. S. Senate refused to re-authorize major portions of the USA Patriot Act. Critics of the act complained they infringed too much …

News Briefs

MISSOURI Insurer to Pay $8 Million: State Farm Insurance has been ordered to pay more than $8 million to a tow truck driver and his sister-in-law who were acquitted of insurance fraud after being accused of faking the theft of …

Dan Carmichael

William Granato Brandon Hickey Ohio Casualty Corporation has completed a new five-year agreement with its current president and chief executive officer, Dan R. Carmichael. The prior contract with Carmichael was to expire on Dec. 31, 2005. Carmichael joined Ohio Casualty …