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Fla. CFO Seeks to Clarify Reported Confusion with Storm Claims, Outlines Options to Help Consumers

Mar 30 2005 // Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher on Wednesday raised concerns with confusing policy language and recommended solutions for helping consumers navigate through their homeowners insurance policies and...

April Town Hall Meetings Schedule, Locations Announced in Fort Pierce, Jupiter, Bartow

Mar 29 2005 // Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher has announced that due to overwhelming responses at the four town hall meetings held so far, three additional town hall meetings have been scheduled in April.Gallagher...

People & Places

Mar 21 2005 // Citizens and Hanover Insurance Companies have named Douglas H. McDonoughregional president of their emerging Mid-Atlantic region. In this role, he will manage all aspects of sales and distribution for the companies’...

People & Places

Mar 21 2005 // Robert J. Bothwell has been appointed managing director of Beecher Carlson Holdings Inc.’s new office in Boston. Bothwell, a former principal at William Gallagher Associates will also head the company’s...

Florida, Alabama Get Tough on Unpaid Claims

Mar 21 2005 // Thousands of irate homeowners mobbed state insurance officials in Florida and Alabama to complain about a wait of more than six months for their claims to be settled from the 2004 hurricanes.Tom Gall-agher, Florida Chief...

Victims Ask for Help at Town Hall Meetings; Gallagher to Propose ‘Standard’ Policies

Mar 21 2005 // Tom Gallagher, Florida’s CEO and House Insurance Committee Chair Rep. Dennis A. Ross, R-Lakeland, listened intently to an array of hurricane-related complaints – from families with nowhere to live to homeowners...

Fla. Cabinet’s Emergency Rule ‘Holds Insurers Feet to the Fire’ to Expedite Open Hurricane Claims

Mar 18 2005 // In response to a call by the Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher, Gov. Jeb Bush and the Cabinet has approved an emergency rule to expedite the resolution of open claims from last year’s tropical...

CFO Slates Meetings March 19 in Orlando; April 2 in Ft. Pierce, Fla.

Mar 16 2005 // Florida homeowners will still have two opportunities to discuss hurricane-related insurance problems with CFO Tom Gallagher, his staff and insurance company representatives March 19 in Orlando and April 2 in Fort...

Fla. CEO Misses Fort Pierce Meeting Due to ‘Miscommunications’

Mar 15 2005 // More than 100 homeowners, clutching manila file folders full of hurricane-related paperwork, newspaper reporters and other interested persons milled around the Fort Pierce, Fla. City Hall on March 11 waiting for...

500 Consumers Attend Punta Gorda, Fla. Town Hall Meetings; Gallagher, Insurance Reps Hear Complaints

Mar 14 2005 // More than 100 consumers spent five-and-a-half hours March 12 voicing their concerns about unpaid insurance claims in the aftermath of Hurricane Charley at a town hall meeting in Punta Gorda, Fla. attended by Chief...

Bothwell to Manage Beecher Carlson in Boston

Mar 7 2005 // Beecher Carlson Holdings, Inc. has opened a Boston area office and appointed Robert J. Bothwell to lead the office as managing director in addition to heading the company’s National Energy Practice.The firm also...

March 1 Deadline to Apply for Multiple-Deductible Relief

Feb 18 2005 // March 1 is the deadline for Florida homeowners who paid multiple hurricane deductibles to apply for relief from the state according to Tom Gallagher, Chief Financial Officer.The program was created to avoid the terrible...

22 Insurance-Fraud Ring Members Apprehended; Fla. Warns Others About Tough Penalties

Feb 18 2005 // A campaign to point out the consequences of staging an auto accident or participating in auto insurance fraud has been launched by the Florida Department of Financial Services Division of Insurance Fraud. The...

Gallagher Plans Town Hall Meetings in Fla.’s Hurricane-Impacted Areas

Feb 17 2005 // Homeowners with unresolved hurricane damage claims will have a chance next month to discuss their concerns in town hall meetings hosted by Tom Gallagher, Florida’s CEO.The first meeting is tentatively scheduled in...

Gallagher: Citizens Should Reduce Third-Party Adjusters; Begin Take-Out Incentives

Feb 10 2005 // Citizens Property Insurance Co. should reduce third-party adjusters and institute a take-out incentive program, according to suggestions made by Florida CFO Tom Gallagher in a letter to Peter M. Dunbar, Citizens Task Force...

Fla. CEO Requests Rate ‘Freeze’; Insurance Council Shares His Concerns

Feb 3 2005 // Florida’s CFO Tom Gallagher has requested a freeze on all insurance rate increases for homeowners policies.According to a press release issued by the Department of Financial Services: “I learned today that...

Fla. Cabinet Hears Multiple Deductible Status Report

Feb 1 2005 // Just three weeks after the Department of Financial Services launched its Multiple Deductible Reimbursement Program, more than 400 checks totaling $600,000 are being mailed this week, Florida’s Chief Financial Officer...

Crawford Joins Arthur J. Gallagher

Jan 31 2005 // Itasca, Ill.-based Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced that Chris Crawford will join its Glendale, Calif. office as area executive vice president. Crawford will be responsible for new client development and client...

Arthur J. Gallagher Blames Softening Rates, Spitzer for Q4 Profit Decline

Jan 25 2005 // Itasca, Ill.-based brokerage Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. reported fourth-quarter net income of $49.1 million, down from $49.2 million a year ago, though revenue was up 6 percent to $386.9 million. The results fell short...

Arthur J. Gallagher Forms Gallagher RE

Jan 24 2005 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has announced the merger of its two U.S. reinsurance brokerage subsidiaries, Arthur J. Gallagher Intermediaries Inc. in New York and John P. Woods & Co. Inc. in New Jersey effective...