Mitch Dunford interviews Bill Ross, CEO of the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation. Mitch and Bill discuss the foundations 17th Annual Gala Benefit Dinner on May 20th 2010 in San Francisco. The theme for this year’s event, “Honoring Our Military.” The guest speaker will be James P. Combs Brigadier General United States Army, Retired. The IICF is a wonderful industry organization whose motto, “Helping Communities, Enriching Lives, Together” is put into action through the dozens and dozens of charitable grants given every year. If your life has been blessed through a career in the Insurance Industry getting involved with the IICF is an excellent way to give back.
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 [...]
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Agent licensing reform is a key initiative for the nation’s largest association of independent insurance agents. A bi-partisan bill has been introduced into Congress that may be the solution, says Bob Rusbuldt, President and CEO of the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America.
The Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act, or NRRA, was supported by the surplus lines insurance industry. When it goes into effect in July 2011 it will require surplus lines premiums to be paid only to the insured’s home state. States such as Texas with a large surplus lines marketplace will seek to protect their portion [...]
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