The ongoing debate over health care reform in Congress is not just a concern to health insurers. Property/casualty insurers, too, are watching for any spillover effects from provisions that have been considered, according to Dr. Robert Hartwig, president and economist at the Insurance Information Institute.
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 [...]
A perfect storm could be in the industry’s forecast should the impact from the subprime fallout, natural disasters and carrier reserve redundancies converge later this year, says Paul Springman, president and chief operating officer of Markel Corp. In this interview with Insurance Journal’s Andrea Wells, Springman says that while he remains optimistic about the future [...]
Interview with Priority Data Systems Vice President, David Mellor, at the IIABA 2003 InfoXchange
The Property Risk Insurance Specialist (PRIS) designation is unlike any commercial-property-focused insurance training you have ever experienced. Over three days you learn the what’s, when’s, where’s, why’s and how’s of commercial property coverage. And unlike many property courses you have attended, this training focuses on the nitty gritty truth of commercial property coverage rather than [...]