How a Midwest-Based Insurer Copes with Catastrophes
Not all catastrophe insurance losses are on the coast. State Auto Insurance CEO Bob Restrepo discusses how his Super Regional company has been hit hard by cat losses and what it is doing to mitigate these losses.
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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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Young Agents Aid in Business Perpetuation
Being a young agent requires a little bit of a thick skin, according to Denny Christner, parner with BayRisk Insurance Brokers in Alameda, Calif. Younger agents sometimes have to work harder at convincing potential customers that they have the right work ethic and product knowledge. But on the upside, Christner said the opportunities for young [...]
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N.Y. Agents Seek Principles for Health Insurance Exchange
Federal health care reform laws mandate that every state sets up a health insurance exchange. In New York, insurance agents plan to weigh in on the creation of the exchange by forming a coalition of trade groups to advocate for core principles for it.
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Health Care Reform at Top of P/C Agents’ Agenda
Congress and the Obama Administration are serious about healthcare reform and the Big “I” and its CEO Bob Rusbuldt are as well. Rusbuldt explains why P/C agents have a stake in the politics of health care reform.
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