The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research has named the state award winners who will compete for the national Outstanding Customer Service Representative of the Year for 2009. Each year, a group of exceptional insurance professionals are chosen by …
Los Angeles-based The Farmers Insurance Group of Companies is offering a new eco-friendly product for its Texas customers wishing to ‘go green”. Called “Eco-Rebuild”, the new endorsement will supplement the comapany’s homeowners insurance by allowing customers to replace destroyed property …
CEO Restrepo Talks Cat Losses, Premium Growth and Independent Agents Regional property/casualty insurance companies don’t make headlines like the large institutions. They simply go about their business serving customers and independent agents — and paying claims. How are regional insurance …
Citing the strain of escalating medical costs on the workers’ compensation system, increasingly intense price competition, and the uncertainty over the sustainability of the 2003-2004 legislative reforms due to recent Court decisions, Agoura Hills, Calif.-based Employers Direct has announced plans …
Continental Risk Insurance Services is now offering worker’s compensation coverage for hundreds of classes including contractors, manufacturers, and fitness clubs with a specialization in large accounts. Free help-line services are offered along with an in house claims and audit team. …
Wisconsin drivers would have to buy liability insurance for their vehicles but illegal immigrants would not be issued special cards so they could drive legally on the state’s roads under the state budget poised to pass the Legislature. The new …
Capitol Insurance Companies (Capitol) based in Middleton, Wis., has launched a commercial automobile insurance product. The company said the product is available for appointed insurance agents and brokers through a newly designed online processing system that will allow them to …
Allowing illegal immigrants to qualify for special driver’s cards would make the roads safer, reduce insurance rates and generate much-needed revenue for state government, supporters of the proposal said. Supporters pressed those points at a news conference, a noisy rally …
Those who track insurance criminals for a living say that as the economy has worsened, insurance fraud has been on the rise– and they are on the alert for any jump in fraud by property/casualty agents and brokers. These days …
Federal lawmakers once again are preparing to tackle the issue of how states can more effectively regulate the surplus lines insurance market. It’s been tried before, but legislation was recently reintroduced in the U.S. House of Representatives with the goal …
