February 11, 2007
Commissioner wants to fine-tune system to protect consumers 8 Agents, brokers set sight on political involvement Meeting with legislators helps them relate to insurance issues 9 West has highest number of “unacceptable” levees Corps of Engineers wants levee owners to …
February 11, 2007
In 2004 at the age of 34, David Rivera was appointed to be Colorado’s State Insurance Commissioner, the youngest insurance person to serve in that position. This January, newly elected Gov. Bill Ritter announced he would be replacing Rivera, appointing …
February 11, 2007
The Alliance of Insurance Agents and Brokers hopes to take political action in 2007. Several speakers at the association’s first annual State of the Alliance held in Sacramento on Jan. 23 emphasized the role agents and brokers play in the …
February 11, 2007
Currently serving in his second term as North Dakota Insurance Commissioner, Jim Poolman has focused his efforts on working for and protecting insurance consumers across North Dakota. He previously served eight years in the North Dakota House of Representatives which …
February 11, 2007
Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger is a seasoned player now going into her fifth year leading the Kansas Insurance Department. She was elected in 2002 to her first term as Commissioner of Insurance, and was recently re-elected in November 2006 to …
February 11, 2007
Take out your business plan when reading this article and see if it needs to be revised and updated. If you don’t have a business plan, then this article should be used as the basis of the plan for the …
February 11, 2007
At a recent meeting of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, Insurance Journal sat down with 15 insurance regulators to talk about issues affecting their state insurance markets, as well as industry-wide concerns. Regulators addressed their viewpoints on issues ranging …
February 11, 2007
Julie Mix McPeak cares about the health insurance crisis facing small businesses in Kentucky and in response to the problem she helped to implement the “I-CARE” initiative. About 90 percent of businesses in Kentucky qualify as small businesses and the …
February 11, 2007
Dale Finke, who recently retired, led the Missouri Department of Insurance, Financial Institutions and Professional Registration with honor during a time of transition, Gov. Matt Blunt said. Finke led the department over the last two years. During his tenure the …
February 11, 2007
Looking back on his two-year tenure, former New York Superintendent of Insurance Howard Mills says he thinks insurance actions by his own and other states’ attorneys general came about because there was a vacuum in insurance regulation, a vacuum which …