Agency Technology, Practically Speaking
Big “I” automation expert Jeff Yates offers a progress report on how independent agencies are using technology in both personal and commercial lines to be competitive. Yates discusses real time rating, agency-company collaboration, security issues and more.
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Lobbyist Norwood Looks Ahead to 2012 in Legislature
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 [...]
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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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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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NAIIA Descends on Rancho Mirage
Attendees descended on Rancho Mirage, California recently for the 68th Annual National Association
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A “Taste” of ACT
In this podcast, Peter and Rick talk with Jim Armitage, the new Chair of the IIABA’s Agents Council for Technology (ACT). If you are not familiar with ACT and the wide range of initiatives it is spearheading to improve agency workflow, you’ll want to listen as Jim provides an overview. “One of the goals of [...]
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Mystery Man To Helm New York Insurance Exchange
Thanks to months of planning and the combined insight of more than 50 insurance industry leaders, the plan to revitalize the New York Insurance Exchange is poised to take a big step forward this fall. But there’s still a lot to be done — particularly behind the scenes. Leading the charge to build the exchange [...]
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