Accident Insurance Co., a growing workers’ compensation and small business insurer, is looking for 100 new independent agents within the next 100 days— through Oct. 12. Opportunities exist in 11 states. Jon Beckham, AIC’s chief marketing officer, speaks with Insurance Journal’s Andy Simpson about what the company is looking for, what it’s offering, and why the target is 100 agents in 100 days.
Director and officers liability coverage is increasingly being called up to respond to cases involving the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Is this right? Susanne Murray, an executive vice president for Alliant Insurance Services, discusses this expansion of D&O coverage in this interview with Insurance Journal’s Andy Simpson at the recent Professional Liability Underwriting Society’s D&O [...]
Director and officers liability coverage continues to evolve. Susanne Murray, an executive vice president for Alliant Insurance Services, knows all about this evolution in her work focusing on executive risk liability exposures. In this interview with Insurance Journal’s Andy Simpson at the recent Professional Liability Underwriting Society’s D&O conference, Murray discusses this evolution of D&O, [...]
In words seldom uttered by P/C insurance executives, Chartis CEO Peter Hancock at the recent Professional Liability Underwriting Society meeting in New York praised regulators and the plaintiffs’ bar. He then spoke with Insurance Journal’s Andy Simpson to explain how he sees these players as partners with the insurance industry in working to make the [...]
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 [...]
Heidi Holdam and Craig Forte of HG Insurance and Tax Accounting in Palm Beach, Florida, are coming off one of the most prosperous tax seasons they have had in years, which they attribute to an email marketing campaign they started a little over a year ago. In this Interview with Adam DeGraide, They discuss [...]
Surplus lines brokers are understandably focused on federal legislation, recently passed in
Zurich North America’s Commercial Markets team helped Habitat for Humanity of Northern Fox Valley build a home in just one week for a family in need. Zurich’s Jim Christle shares highlights from the ‘Blitz Build’ with Insurance Journal TV.
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