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Main Street America Group’s Approach to Vendor Management
Bill Garvey of Eastern Shore Consulting talks with Tim Cotton, Director of Claim Operations for The Main Street America Group. Cotton discusses the reasons and outcomes of MSA’s vendor management vision and practices. He explains how MSA procures vendors and the affect this direction has had on claims handling.
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Brokers: Overcome Fear of Patent Insurance
Garrett Koehn, president of Northwestern U.S. for Crump Insurance Services, authored his first intellectual property and technology related coverages in 1995, working Yahoo, Excite, and others in the Silicon Valley. Here in an interview at the 2011 PLUS Conference with Insurance Journal and Claims Journal, Koehn discusses one form on IP insurance, patent insurance, and [...]
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The Berry Family 5K
Listen as Insurance Journal talks with Kyle Stevens, President of Western Security Surplus about their involvement with the Berry Family 5K taking place on March, 24th, 2012 in Plano, Texas. Join Insurance Journal and other great organizations as they help a family struggling after a horrible accident. For more information, visit berryfamily5k.org, [...]
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Nevada’s New Insurance Commissioner Lays out Pro-insurance Agenda
This is the second time Scott Kipper has assumed the role of insurance commissioner for Nevada. His start date was Oct. 24, and now that he’s back he says he plans to bolster the state’s insurance business, and the business environment in general.
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Don’t Let the Bed Bugs Bite! Managing and Mitigating Bed Bug Exposures
In this Markets in Motion Podcast, Crystal Jacobs, product specialist with Professional Liability Insurance Services (PLIS) Underwriting Facility and Pam Ritz, president of Specialty Risk Management, discuss the PLIS Bed Bug coverages created to help hotels and motels deal with a bed bug outbreak and the fallout that comes with it.
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Trends in Professional Liability Claims
With certain professions seeing a rise in claims, Gerry Merritt, president of Hanover Professionals, discusses the reason for the increase and the main targets of such claims, in this interview with Claims Journal and Insurance Journal at this years annual PLUS conference in San Diego.
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The Impact of Social Media on EPLI Loss Trends
Cathy Padalino, vice president and EPL Product Manager for Chubb, discusses employment practices liability insurance loss trends and the impact of social media on EPLI claims with Claims Journal and Insurance Journal at this years PLUS conference in San Diego.
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The Scope of Intellectual Property
Robert Fletcher, president of the Intellectual Property Services Corp., explains a business’s IP, how it is valued, and the costs associated with litigating IP claims, in this interview with Claims Journal and Insurance Journal at this years PLUS conference in San Diego.
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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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Catastrophes’ Impact on the Market
Michael J. Carr, senior vice president of excess and surplus property for Liberty Mutual Underwriters, has more than 18 years of experience managing, developing, and underwriting in the E&S property business. When he was at the National Association of Professional Lines Office convention in San Diego earlier this month he spoke about how the year’s [...]
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A “Taste” of ACT
In this podcast, Peter and Rick talk with Jim Armitage, the new Chair of the IIABA’s Agents Council for Technology (ACT). If you are not familiar with ACT and the wide range of initiatives it is spearheading to improve agency workflow, you’ll want to listen as Jim provides an overview. “One of the goals of [...]
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Pressure to Merge
The soft market and tough economy has placed pressure on some wholesale brokerage firms to merge. Neal Abernathy, CEO of Swett & Crawford, thinks the surplus lines industry will see more consolidation in the future thanks to the rising cost of doing business today. In this interview with Insurance Journal’s Andrea Ortega-Wells from the annual [...]
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The Future for NAPSLO
Brady Kelley, the new executive director of the National Association of Surplus Lines Offices (NAPSLO), is not a newcomer to the insurance industry. He brings to NAPSLO a unique view in insurance regulation. Kelley spent the last 13 years working with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners with oversight in the divisions of finance, products [...]
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Bartosh Tech Commitment Comes from the Top
Brian Bartosh, chairman of ASCnet User Group, took some time to talk with Insurance Journal about the group’s vision and technology. Bartosh is president of Alpena, Mich.-based Top O’ Michigan Insurance, his father’s agency. He joined Top O’ Michigan in 1979 as a sales representative. Today he serves as president and shareholder.
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Getting Better
The surplus lines industry continues to outperform the overall property and casualty industry year after year; but that performance gap is shrinking. Profitability in surplus lines isn’t quite what it used to be. But industry innovator Patrick Ryan, chairman and CEO of Ryan Specialty Group says there’s a lot of interest right now in surplus [...]
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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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California Wildfires: Insurance Industry Assesses Impact
Wildfires are still destroying property, homes and businesses in southern California.
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ACORD/LOMA Interview with Doug Johnston
Applied Systems provides technology for insurance companies, brokers, MGAs and agents. Doug
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Ohio Commissioner Lays Out Opposition to Federal Oversight, Cat Plan
As public servant, attorney and community leader, Mary Jo Hudson officially took office as the 46th director of the Ohio Department of Insurance on Jan. 8, 2007. Not shy in letting consumers, agents and other regulators know where she stands, Director Hudson spells out why she opposes an optional federal charter and the adoption of [...]
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Happy Holidays from the Wells Publishing team!
Members of The Insurance Journal, MyNewMarkets.com and ClaimsJournal.com staff have put together a short video to thank YOU…our readers, viewers, and advertisers. It’s filmed entirely on Flip video, and the music was created on an iPad. Enjoy!
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