InVESTing in the Industry
InVEST was founded in 1970 by a member agent of the Independent Insurance Agents of Los Angeles who was having trouble recruiting qualified employees with insurance knowledge. The first InVEST class at Hollywood High School began training students in insurance agency and company operations and encouraging them to pursue careers in the industry. Thirty-four years later, InVEST has grown to more than 235 programs in 30 U.S. states. Armitage conservatively estimates the program has seen more than 96,000 students. InVEST insurance training provides another possible career choice for high school and college graduates.
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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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New Life to an Old Debate
The 2008 hurricane season was a major one, with a number of named storms making landfall across much of the Southeast. And that increased activity has underscored the growing debate over whether to create a national catastrophe plan. In these interviews with Insurance Journal’s Ken St. Onge, regulators attending the National Association of Insurance Commissioners [...]
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The Personal Lines Opportunity
On Point with Peter van Aartrijk and Rick Morgan is an audio conversation with insurance industry leaders who champion change and challenge all of us to think.
IIABA’s annual market share study compares the share of the property / casualty business on commercial and personal lines bases, and compares the aggregate of the independent agent to [...] -
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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