Michigan Commissioner Watters is accustomed to meeting the industry in court. Cases over credit scoring and auto claims have ended up there. She’s also advocating community and faith-based purchasing groups for auto and home coverage.
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 [...]
The directors and officers liability market has been impacted by a number of events in the last decade, including issues arising from the sub-prime lending meltdown. While the impact of today’s mortgage crisis on the D&O market remains to be seen, Carl Pursiano, Senior Vice-President for Liberty International Underwriters, says the industry is well-prepared to [...]
The current state of the economy has affected those in the claims industry in ways that may be surprising, but not far-fetched. At a recent claims conference in Las Vegas, Claims Journal talked with several in the claims industry about how the recession has affected their business.
Kim Aoyama, president and CEO of Promark Financial, has used the Internet to help bring value to her company and community by making it easier for everyone to participate in philanthropic ventures. In this interview with Tim Sawyer, Aoyama talks about how creating a virtual community through social media has helped her company and [...]