The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation announced that 14 companies with approximately 47,600 employees in Texas recently were approved to self-insure for workers’ compensation claims for a one-year period under the department’s self insurance program. Commissioner of …
The National Association of Professional Insurance Agents has criticized a statement issued by the Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS), saying the group’s position on incentive compensation undermines the free enterprise system. The agents group says the members of RIMS …
Workers compensation administrator First Cardinal LLC announced the hiring and promotion of several employees at its Latham, N.Y. headquarters. Christine D. Bentsen has joined the accounting department as a senior accountant. Prior to joining First Cardinal, Bentsen was employed with …
Raleigh, N.C.-based TriSure Corp. named John Cramer, a partner and co-founder, the firm’s new chief executive officer. The move stems from TriSure’s need to implement a management structure that positions it for future growth, according to a company news release …
The Main Street America Group announced today Gregg Effner has joined the company as assistant vice president of distribution management. Effner, who has 30 years of property-casualty industry experience, will be based at the company’s corporate headquarters in Jacksonville, Fla., …
California’s Alliance of Insurance Agents and Brokers has issued a statement, criticizing the Risk and Insurance Management Society’s support of eliminating contingent commissions. In May, RIMS called contingent commissions “an inherent conflict of interest” and noted it was disappointed that …
Novato, Calif.-based Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. has endorsed a program for insurance agents errors and omissions (Agents E&O) coverage with Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA), known as the Big “I”, in all 50 states and the District …
Cadence, Strategic Independent Agents Alliance Cadence Insurance Services of Colorado Springs, Colo., became a member of the Strategic Independent Agents Alliance, a network of independent insurance agencies. Cadence Insurance Services joined the ICA Agency Alliance Master Agency network in Colorado …
Declarations Pay for flood now or later “I would put flood insurance back in the homeowner’s policy maintaining the federal government as the reinsurer … We need to bring more people into the system … We need to bring them …
The results are in and they bear repeating and repeating and repeating. Three-quarters of consumers are very satisfied with the service provided by their insurance agents and remain committed to working with them in the future, according to a new …
