Really cool time lapse footage of the Harris Fire over night and many hours of daylight
Orange smoke filled sky over Swami’s Beach
Scary smoky sky
Footage from Irvine Blvd
October 21, 2007
October 21, 2007
Looking East from San Marcos at the smoke created by both the Coronado Hills fire and the Palomar Mountain fire.
This is a timelapse video of the fire that destroyed 4 mansions in Malibu, CA on Jan. 8, 2007, including the home of Suzanne Somers. The camera was on timelapse to capture the sunset, but ended up catching smoke from the beginning of the fire as well.
Malibu fire civilian report
Malibu fire civilian report
Malibu fire civilian report
Malibu fire civilian report
Malibu fire civilian report
Malibu fire civilian report
Malibu fire civilian report
John Norwood, principal of Norwood & Associates, has a career in political work dating back to the early 1980s, and he’s one of the state’s best known lobbyists in the insurance and financial services sectors. Norwood talked about workers’ compensation, and other legislation and regulation matters that the insurance industry will face in 2012, including [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Ray Rose, claims manager, Operations and Oversight at Hastings Mutual Insurance Company, discusses how the implementation of Guidewire’s Claim Center helped his company manage its field and internal adjusters and reduce allocated loss adjustment expense. Hastings Mutual was the first carrier to go live with Claim Center nearly seven years ago, and Rose was integral [...]
When the University of California sought cyber liability insurance, it found no one wanted to write the coverage. Chief Risk Officer Grace Crickette shares how her two years of persistence paid off in finding a Lloyd’s syndicate that reverse underwrote the coverage — paying claims only as long they meet certain standards.
Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Nonnie Burnes
As senior vice president of technology and privacy at Hiscox, Jim Whetstone is focused on data and privacy-related issues. In this recent interview with Insurance Journal’s Andrew Simpson, Whetstone discusses how privacy breaches occur and if there is any typical scenario.
Watch the second video in this series: Insurance Steps in When Privacy is Breached
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