The Professional Independent Insurance Agents of Illinois’ Young Agents’ Committee has established itself as one of the best in the nation with an aggressive internship program, regular outings and professional development classes. Incoming committee chair Josh Warren, assistant director at Chicago-based Equity Risk Partners, tells IJ his first mission is “to not mess things up.” He also commented on what young agents need in order to not only survive in the business but flourish.
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 [...]
Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger takes a “no nonsense” approach to key issues in
California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner spent years running high-tech companies in Silicon Valley, and as a businessman and consumer of insurance he began to understand the value of insurance and independent agents. Although he is an elected official that’s rumored to be a good choice as a gubernatorial candidate in 2010, Poizner admits he’s not [...]
In this interview with Insurance Journal’s Charles Boyle, Jerry Sullivan, the head of the Sullivan Group, explains how reinsurance operates, and why it is such an essential component of the insurance industry.
August 22, 2008 at 6:05 pm