Continuing Education for Claims Adjusters

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 [...]

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 [...]

Traci Catalano, Creative Marketing Director for R&R Insurance Services in Wisconsin talks about how this large Midwestern agency has built its brand around being a “knowledge broker.” Traci explains how the firm successfully leverages blogging and video to support this unique approach and demonstrate the agency’s subject matter expertise. In fact, she sees “social” as [...]

State insurance regulators are well aware of the critical role independent agents play in the insurance process. They see a “natural alliance” between agents and themselves. In this report, regulators from Florida, Wisconsin, Oregon, Louisiana and Kentucky discuss how they feel about independent agents.