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Norwood on Workers’ Comp
John, principal of Norwood & Associates, has been an lobbyist for insurance and financial services sectors across several decades. Norwood offered a focused looking at the all-important workers’ compensation issue, and he gave his thoughts on health insurance exchanges. In fact, Norwood forecast that 2012 will rank as an important one when it comes to [...]
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Lobbyist Norwood Analyzes Consumer Watchdog Legislation
John Norwood is one of California’s best known legislative advocates for the insurance and financial services sectors. Norwood spoke to the Insurance Journal about legislation and regulation, including a proposal by a consumer advocacy group that would establish prior approval for healthcare insurance and would make major changes to auto insurance and homeowners insurance in [...]
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At-Home Insurance Careers for Disabled Veterans
For insurance agents Gary Trippe and Jim Pender, the idea for DVIC, or Disabled Veterans Insurance Careers, which aims to guide disabled veterans into careers in insurance, evolved in part from their own personal experiences with disabled family members. In this interview with Insurance Journal’s Andy Simpson, the two share their dream of an organization [...]
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North Carolina Veteran Gambled, Won with Own Agency
North Carolina’s C.G. Caldwell joined the U.S. Coast Guard at age 18 right out of high school. He served in the health services field in the U.S. Coast Guard from 1990 until 2001, stationed on large medical ships in ports from New York to San Francisco. After leaving the Coast Guard, he worked in another [...]
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Mission Accomplished with Liberty Mutual
Shane Crockett served 13 years in the U.S. Navy and then several years as an engineer in the private sector before enlisting in Liberty Mutual’s corporate development program. Today he is a regional underwriting vice president. In this interview with Insurance Journal’s Andy Simpson, Crockett explains how his Liberty Mutual job is not only drawing [...]
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Aon Turns to Veterans for World Crisis Team
When the phone rings in the World Aware Operation Center at Aon Corp. in Chicago, the caller is probably someone having a bad day someone in the world. The call is answered by a unique military-like crisis response team that is staffed entirely by veterans, several of them wounded warriors. These insurance warriors include [...]
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More of the Same in Agency E&O
Agencies must provide the right kinds of coverage for new and emerging risks. To do so, agents must stay on top of changes in coverage, new markets and much more. But despite all the new and sometimes exotic coverage options available today, the number one agency errors and omissions exposure has stayed the same for [...]
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How Calif. Agent Started His Agency
Yes, finding markets is a challenge. So is financing. And the soft market doesn’t help. But Phil Hakopian managed to overcome these and other obstacles to launch his Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. agency, Cornerstone Commercial Insurance Services. In this interview with Insurance Journal from the recent WIAA Insurance Industry Roundtable, Hakopian says if he can do [...]
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Smartphone Marketing for Agents
Just when agencies thought they had a handle on digital marketing, and the value of local search from Google, along came the smartphone revolution. In this Insurance Journal interview at the recent WIAA Insurance Industry Roundtable, Michael Jans, president of Bend, Ore.-based Agency Revolution, an agency consulting firm, discusses how marketing has changed and what [...]
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Norwood on Workers’ Comp
John, principal of Norwood & Associates, has been an lobbyist for insurance and financial services sectors across several decades. Norwood offered a focused looking at the all-important workers’ compensation issue, and he gave his thoughts on health insurance exchanges. In fact, Norwood forecast that 2012 will rank as an important one when it comes to [...]
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Lobbyist Norwood Analyzes Consumer Watchdog Legislation
John Norwood is one of California’s best known legislative advocates for the insurance and financial services sectors. Norwood spoke to the Insurance Journal about legislation and regulation, including a proposal by a consumer advocacy group that would establish prior approval for healthcare insurance and would make major changes to auto insurance and homeowners insurance in [...]
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At-Home Insurance Careers for Disabled Veterans
For insurance agents Gary Trippe and Jim Pender, the idea for DVIC, or Disabled Veterans Insurance Careers, which aims to guide disabled veterans into careers in insurance, evolved in part from their own personal experiences with disabled family members. In this interview with Insurance Journal’s Andy Simpson, the two share their dream of an organization [...]
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Entrepreneurial Technologists
This year the Entrepreneurial Insurance Alliance (EIA), sponsored by MarketScout, named Vertafore and Risk Metrics, as winners of it 2011 Entrepreneurial Award in technology. Vertafore’s WorkSmart and Risk Metrics’ Insurance 360 technology products received recognition from the EIA as being some of the industry’s most innovative concepts in technology. Each year, the EIA receives hundreds [...]
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How Insurance Distribution Is Changing
Retail and wholesale brokers face the challenge —and opportunity— of redefining their relationships and value proposition in today’s changing insurance distribution world, according to Glenn Hargrove, president, MarketScout Wholesale, Dallas, Tex. In this interview from the recent Western Insurance Agents Association’s Insurance Industry Roundtable in California, Hargrove outlines the value proposition of agents and brokers [...]
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Interesting Times in Medical Liability
The medical liability market continues to perform well even as the nation struggles to implement health care reform. Robert Allen, senior vice presidents at Torus Insurance, says many health care institutions are implementing new strategies to be successful in today’s health care reform world. In this interview with Insurance Journal’s Andrea Ortega-Wells from the annual [...]
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Pat Ryan Asks, ‘Are You Happy?’
Patrick Ryan is an innovator who sees opportunity. And it was opportunity that drove him to launch Ryan Specialty Group in early 2010. Success lies in hiring “good people,” Ryan says. In this interview from the annual National Association of Surplus Lines Offices (NAPSLO) annual convention in San Diego, Ryan says his newest venture gave [...]
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How Insurance Distribution Is Changing
Retail and wholesale brokers face the challenge —and opportunity— of redefining their relationships and value proposition in today’s changing insurance distribution world, according to Glenn Hargrove, president, MarketScout Wholesale, Dallas, Tex. In this interview from the recent Western Insurance Agents Association’s Insurance Industry Roundtable in California, Hargrove outlines the value proposition of agents and brokers [...]
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2006: Good Performance Across All Lines
Driven by sound underwriting, the property casualty insurance industry performed well in 2006,
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PURE Innovation
During his 25-year career in the property/casualty insurance business, Ross Buchmueller has specialized in protecting the assets of wealthy clients. So it was a natural progression when he founded PURE, a six-year-old reciprocal insurance company that operates in the high net worth market niche. In an interview with Insurance Journal, Buchmueller describes the process of [...]
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Ala.’s Bell Ready to Create a Roadmap for Regulators
As the newly elected president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, Walter
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