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Mass. Commissioner Burnes: What Happens Between Now and Managed Competition
Massachusetts regulator Nonnie Burnes is engineering a switch to a less regulated auto insurance market. In this excerpt from an exclusive interview with Insurance Journal, she discusses whether the change will attract new players, what existing insurers might do to prepare, the future of group discounts and other effects on the marketplace.
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Florida Commissioner McCarty: Getting to Savings for Florida Property Owners
Florida regulator Kevin McCarty is optimistic that insurance savings promised to property owners will eventually be realized in insurance company rate filings. In this excerpt from a wide-ranging interview with Insurance Journal, McCarty, the man in the thick of it all, discusses the controversy.
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California Wildfires: Insurers On Site at Evacuation Centers
CEO Paul Hopkins tells of his company’s experience at one such site at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego
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Interviews from 360 Lloyd’s 360 Live Debate
Key speakers shared their personal viewpoints after the Lloyd’s 360 Live Debate entitled ‘Global Business: Under Attack?’.
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Highlights of the Lloyd’s 360 Live Debate
Over 200 delegates attended the Lloyd’s 360 Live Debate entitled ‘Global Business: Under Attack?’ on 15 May 2007. The debate was chaired by BBC World Affairs Editor, John Simpson, and some of the world’s leading experts on terrorism and political violence, explored the key issues and the impact on global business.
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How to Fight a Wildfire
2 Erickson Air-Cranes draw water from Pepperdine’s Alumni Park.
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Pepperdine Wildfire
Amazing smoke and fire filled sky
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Black Smoke Creeps Over Ocean
Dust and ash blow over the Pacific Ocean. October 22, 2007 at 9 a.m.
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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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What Agents Should Know About Privacy Issues and Coverage
The area of privacy exposure and data breaches is an expanding and evolving one for the property and casualty insurance industry. It is also a potential growth area with the new insurance companies testing and entering the market to provide privacy related coverages. In this interview with Insurance Journal’s Andrew Simpson, Jim Whetstone, [...]
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Health Care Reform at Top of P/C Agents’ Agenda
Congress and the Obama Administration are serious about healthcare reform and the Big “I” and its CEO Bob Rusbuldt are as well. Rusbuldt explains why P/C agents have a stake in the politics of health care reform.
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Bill Hildebrand, ASPN / NAPSLO 2003 Annual
Interview with ASPN VP & Regional Manager, Bill Hildebrand, at the NAPSLO 2003 Annual Meeting
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Effects of the Recession on the Claims Industry
The current state of the economy has affected those in the claims industry in ways that may be surprising, but not far-fetched. At a recent claims conference in Las Vegas, Claims Journal talked with several in the claims industry about how the recession has affected their business.
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