Thomco has acquired the American Agency, a program manager that has been marketing and underwriting an ambulance program for over 25 years. As a result, Thomco is now offering ambulance, hospital fleet and paratransit programs. These programs are written by Empire Fire and Marine.
Claims with these programs tend to be very severe. Thomco employs a full-time risk manager that works closely with insureds, which keeps rates stable. In this interview, Greg explains coverages and account sizes involved in the ambulance program. Tune in for program and contact 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 [...]
Jerry Sullivan, the head of the Sullivan Group, sat down with Charles Boyle of insurance Journal to talk a bit about Lloyd’s of London, and what kind of business is best placed there and why.
Insurance Journal’s Andrew Simpson interviews Joseph Petrelli of the actuarial firm Demotech, Inc. on the Florida property insurance market, the state hurricane fund and the contingency plans of the domestic property insurers.
In a conversation with National Editor Andrea Ortega-Wells, Rick Dinger, president of Crescenta