Maritime General Agency is a program administrator for AIG that insures marinas, boat dealers, yacht clubs, private pleasure boats, yachts, mega-yachts and charter boats. This is Chris Pesce’s first trip to Target Markets, and networking opportunities coupled with easy access to carriers are reasons that he’ll return in the future.
Chris says that although Maritime General Agency doesn’t focus on business in the the Southeastern United States, hurricane Katrina will affect the whole marine insurance world in the form of rate increases.
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 [...]
Stuart Ganis of Ganis Consulting has spent the majority of his adult life in the insurance industry, and now as a consultant shares that experience with companies to help them develop new strategies to gain and keep new clients. In this interview with Tim Sawyer, Ganis talks about the trends and needs of the [...]
If you were to select candidates for a modern man for all seasons, Michael Mainelli would certainly be on the short list. He has been directly involved in how the international business community operates and how it has evolved. His business accomplishments range widely, including computer graphics, which led him into starting companies in seismology, [...]
Interview with The Sullivan Group Exec VP, Hank Haldeman, at the NAPSLO 2003 Annual Meeting