Oregon’s Competitive Insurance Environment
Oregon’s Insurance Administrator Scott Kipper may be leaving the state Department of Consumer and Business Services on Oct. 31, 2008, but the state will continue to have a good relationship with agents, as well as a competitive property/casualty insurance marketplace. In an exclusive interview with Insurance Journal’s Ken St. Onge, Oregon’s outgoing Insurance Administrator Scott Kipper talks about the collaborative environment the department has with independent agents, the state’s catastrophe insurance plan, the fallout from the AIG bailout, and more.
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