Market Update with Swett & Crawford CEO Abernathy
Insurance Journal Publisher Mark Wells caught up with Neal Abernathy, CEO of Atlanta-based independent wholesaler Swett & Crawford, at the recent NAPSLO Midyear Meeting to talk about today’s marketplace and Swett’s role in it.
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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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At-Home Insurance Careers for Disabled Veterans
For insurance agents Gary Trippe and Jim Pender, the idea for DVIC, or Disabled Veterans Insurance Careers, which aims to guide disabled veterans into careers in insurance, evolved in part from their own personal experiences with disabled family members. In this interview with Insurance Journal’s Andy Simpson, the two share their dream of an organization [...]
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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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Managing an Agency in a Troubled Economy: Agents Must Set Priorities
In this economy, agents must be looking at how they are managing their agencies overall, but they also have to set priorities. Insurance Journal’s Andy Simpson asked Juan Andrade, executive vice-president for sales and distribution at The Hartford, where he also oversees the agency management consulting arm, Business Management Group, what agents’ priorities should be.
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Chartis Targets Small Businesses for Growth Opportunities
Chartis has worked particularly hard in the last several years on building insurance programs that target very specific areas of business. One of those areas has been small to mid-size businesses. Paul Boris, program manager for Chartis Growth Enterprises, talks with Insurance Journal about what they are doing to help small businesses grow and what [...]
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