Brian is chairing a securities working group for the Agent’s Council for Technology (ACT). The group plans to publish a paper by September that outlines internal and external security risk exposures to agents. These risks include viruses and Internet / wireless hub exposures that affect agents of all sizes. Check the ACT and IIABA Web sites for more information.
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 [...]
An amalgamation of Geico Caveman Commercials (Geico commercial)
Changes in laws governing corporations, duties of lawyers respecting discovery, and other legal and economic changes have affected the ways that lawyers practice law. In this interview from the recent PLUS Annual International Conference in San Francisco, Kimberly Pihlstrom, senior vice president and product manager of lawyers’ professional liability for OneBeacon Professional Partners, discusses the [...]
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.