Insurance company claims personnel have come out from behind their desks and traveled to the evacuation sites where victims of the continuing wildfires in southern California have gone for shelter. Farmers Insurance Co. CEO Paul Hopkins tells of his company’s experience at one such site at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego and looks ahead to the rebuilding that will be needed after the fires are contained.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
In 25 years, Tapco Underwriters has gone from writing five policies daily to 1,000 every day. In an interview with Insurance Journal’s Stephanie Jones, Tap Johnson discusses how the use of technology and his company’s unique service model has enabled it to go from a three-person operation with a typewriter to a dynamic company with [...]
There are many special risks presented by failing businesses. In this exclusive interview from the recent PLUS Annual International Conference in San Francisco, Kenneth Coffin, vice president, professional liability claims for Liberty International Underwriters, talks about lawyers’ duties and obligations, particularly when companies fail.
Health care for Kentucky businesses – the lion’s share of them classified as small – has been
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