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Insurance Journal TV: Interview With Patricia Henry, Executive Vice President Of Global Government Affairs At Chubb

Feb 19 2016 // San Diego, CA, February 19, 2016- Insurance Journal TV offers exclusive new video segments from Patricia Henry’s interview with Carrier Management.A property/casualty insurance organization as big as Chubb has a lot...

Howard Succeeds Boyle as International Editor for Wells Media

Feb 16 2016 // San Diego, CA, February 16, 2016- L.S. Howard has been appointed international editor for Insurance Journal and Carrier Management. She is based in London.Howard succeeds Charles E. Boyle, who retired at the end of 2015...

Howard Succeeds Boyle as International Editor for Wells Media

Feb 16 2016 // L.S. Howard has been appointed international editor for Insurance Journal and Carrier Management. She is based in London.Howard succeeds Charles E. Boyle, who retired at the end of 2015 after 17 years with the company....

Expert Sounds off on Legal, Insurance Issues of Self-Driving Cars

Jan 25 2016 // Hilary Rowen, a partner in the law firm of Sedgwick LLP in Sacramento, Calif., for the last three years has been analyzing and following the insurance issues relating to the emergence of autonomous vehicles, particularly...

Expert Sounds off on Legal, Insurance Issues of Self-driving Cars

Jan 12 2016 // Editor’s note: To hear the full interview click on the podcast above or visit www.insuarncejournal.tv.Hilary Rowen, a partner in the law firm of Sedgwick LLP in Sacramento, Calif., for the last three years, has been...

Insurance Journal’s Most Popular East Region Stories of 2015

Dec 31 2015 // As the year 2015 comes to a close, here’s a look at InsuranceJournal.com’s most popular East region news stories of the year. Among the 1,100 stories posted in the East region this year, the following were 50...

Expert: How Payroll Misclassification Impacts California Workers’ Comp

Dec 29 2015 // Premium misclassification or payroll misclassification is a significant issue for the workers’ compensation industry, according to Bret Shroyer, a solutions architect for Denver, Colo.-based Valen Analytics.Shroyer...

Florida Taxi, DMV Battle over Ridesharing Insurance Issue Takes Interesting Turn

Nov 24 2015 // The Florida ridesharing lawsuit filed by two taxi companies and an individual against the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FDHSMV) is getting more contentious by the day.Two motions have been filed...

Insurance Journal’s Jergler Wins Folio Award; Carrier Management Recognized

Nov 2 2015 // Wells Media Group’s Carrier Management and Insurance Journal publications took home honors from this year’s Folio Awards that recognize excellence in publishing.The awards, sponsored by the publishing...

Time Is Right to Review Agency E&O Limits

Nov 2 2015 // Fewer independent agencies are facing increased premiums for their agency errors and omissions (E&O) coverage and some experts say that is one reason they should consider upping coverage limits at their next...

Florida Will Not Appeal Decision Favoring Deloitte in Poe Financial Collapse

Jun 1 2015 // The Florida Department of Financial Services (DFS) will not appeal the recent jury decision that found Deloitte & Touche not liable in the insolvency of Tampa-based Poe Financial Group following the unprecedented...

Young Agents Survey: The Next Generation Steps Up

Apr 20 2015 // The independent insurance agency system is getting older. So much so that the average age of a U.S. insurance agent today is 59 years old, according to some estimates. And as more than a quarter of the entire insurance...

Why Are Agency Employees Unhappy?

Mar 26 2015 // Agency employees are not happy when it comes to compensation, and money isn’t the problem.Despite increases in salaries and total compensation, many employees continue to be unsatisfied when it comes to overall...

Insurance Journal, Channel Harvest Launch Survey on Agent-Carrier Relationships

Mar 3 2015 // Channel Harvest Research, in partnership with Insurance Journal, is conducting its 2015 national survey of agents’ attitudes about their carrier partners.This is the seventh annual study on key aspects of the...

Employee Pay Up But Morale Down

Feb 23 2015 // Agency employees are not happy when it comes to compensation, and money isn’t the problem.Despite some reported increases in salaries and total compensation, many employees continue to be unsatisfied when it comes to...

Most Popular Insurance Journal South Central Stories of 2014

Dec 31 2014 // Fraud, higher homeowners rates, fracking, and electronic traffic tickets are topics that drove readers to the following stories on InsuranceJournal.com in 2014. The following 10 stories led as the most popular picks by...

Most Popular Insurance Journal East Stories of 2014

Dec 31 2014 // As 2014 comes to a close, it’s time to look back at the most popular news stories of the year on InsuranceJournal.com. Among the most popular stories in East were Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance’s...

Most Popular Insurance Journal Midwest Stories of 2014

Dec 31 2014 // The most popular InsuranceJournal.com news stories in the Midwest ranged from groundbreaking lawsuits to research into making people safer from storms. With an understanding that stories appearing later in the year have...

Most Popular Insurance Journal National Stories of 2014

Dec 31 2014 // In 2014, readers of InsuranceJournal.com made articles about online competition, flood insurance and the sagas at Tower Group and Fireman’s Fund along news about Uber and Warren Buffett’s $1 billion basketball...

Most Popular Insurance Journal West Stories of 2014

Dec 31 2014 // The year’s most popular InsuranceJournal.com news stories in the West ranged from the tragic to the silly and from matters of great importance to the industry to the ongoing saga of innovative-yet-controversial...