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Demotech, IJ Salute 152 Super Regional P/C Insurers

Jun 24 2008 // There are 152 Super Regional Property/Casualty Insurers™ in the country, with American Family Mutual Insurance Co. at the top of the list.This year marks the second year that the actuarial services firm Demotech...

Super Regional P/C Insurers™

Jun 16 2008 // While many property/casualty insurers referred to themselves as super regionals, the definition of a super regional insurer remained unclear until the Feb. 12, 2007, issue of Insurance Journal where original criteria and...

Match-making: What Retail Agents Want From Wholesalers and MGAs

May 5 2008 // Like the love-lorn users of match.com, independent agents hunting for business partners among surplus lines wholesalers and managing general agents are thinking long-term, not short.They are looking for partners who will...

What America’s Young Insurance Agents Like Most About Being Agents

Apr 4 2008 // According to a new Insurance Journal survey, among the many things America’s young independent insurance agents like about their jobs is the money. Forty-three percent pull in between $51,000 and $100,000 a year,...

America’s Young Insurance Agents: Love and Optimism in the Workplace

Mar 24 2008 // “I wanted a job I could love,” says 29-year-old Meghan McGarry.She found it when she first went to work in an independent insurance agency in New York. Four and one-half years later, and now handling small...

1 Minute Please: Insurance Journal Newsletter Ideas Wanted

Mar 6 2008 // Agency Management? Management Liability?New Markets and Programs? Main Street/Small Business Insurance? Risk Management? Claims, Loss Control and Fraud?Construction and Contractors? Regional Insurer News?Those are just a...

Insurance Journal’s Wells Publishing Named a Top Company to Work For

Jan 29 2008 // Wells Publishing, the parent company of Insurance Journal magazine, InsuranceJournal.com, ClaimsJournal.com, and MyNewMarkets.com has been named the second best publishing company to work for in the United States by...

Wells Publishing, Insurance Journal, Named a Top Company to Work For

Jan 13 2008 // Wells Publishing, the parent company of Insurance Journal magazine, InsuranceJournal.com, ClaimsJournal.com, and MyNewMarkets.com has been named the second best publishing company to work for in the United States by...

Insurance Journal’s MyNewMarkets Picks Winner for Free TV

Sep 7 2007 // San Diego (September 7, 2007) — Insurance Journal proved it pays to belong to its new MyNewMarkets.com community as it aired a webcast of its drawing for a free 40″ Samsung high definition television last week.The...

MyNewMarkets.com Announces 2008 Market Exchange

Jul 17 2007 // SAN DIEGO – Insurance Journal’s new online service, MyNewMarkets.com, is launching a new market focused conference oriented toward helping retail agents and brokers find the coverages they need.The first...

Workers Comp Directory 2007

Jun 18 2007 // Searching for a quality workers’ compensation market? Look no further than Insurance Journal’s 2007 Workers’ Comp Directory, a comprehensive listing of intermediaries and carriers offering workers’...

Greenberg Growing C.V. Starr at Home and Abroad

May 29 2007 // Chairman Maurice “Hank” Greenberg is busy growing his current insurance organization, privately-held C.V. Starr & Co. and all of its units, through acquisitions and investments at home and abroad.His plans...

2007 Agency Salary Survey says …

Apr 23 2007 // More than a 1,000 insurance agencies nationwide responded to the 2007 Agency Salary Survey published in the March 12, 2007, issue of Insurance Journal. While Insurance Journal published the survey results in its annual...

2007 Agency Salary Survey says …

Apr 23 2007 // More than a 1,000 insurance agencies nationwide responded to the 2007 Agency Salary Survey published in the March 12, 2007, issue of Insurance Journal. While Insurance Journal published the survey results in its annual...

Insurance Journal Caribbean Cruise Conference Oct 2007.

Apr 16 2007 // Click here for more information on the Insurance Journal Cruise Conference to the Caribbean Oct 2007.

Insurance Journal’s Exclusive Agency Salary Survey

Mar 12 2007 // More independent insurance agencies gave salary increases in 2006 than in 2005, but still nearly half of all agency salaries nationwide stayed right where they were compared to 2005. On the other hand, producer commission...

Insurance Journal’s Exclusive 2006 Agency Salary Survey

Mar 12 2007 // More independent insurance agencies gave salary increases in 2006 than in 2005, but still nearly half of all agency salaries nationwide stayed right where they were compared to 2005. On the other hand, producer commission...

New Mass. Commissioner Accustomed to Being the Judge

Mar 1 2007 // The new insurance commissioner for Massachusetts, who started on the job this week, thinks her years of experience in a judge’s robe will serve her well in her new role, one in which she sees herself as an arbiter of...

Insurance Journal-Demotech Report Identifies 139 Super Regional P/C Insurers

Feb 14 2007 // Hoping to spark a discussion of so-called “super regional” insurance carriers, Insurance Journal magazine (Feb. 12 issue) this week is publishing its first list of Super Regional Property Casualty Insurers™,...

Mild-mannered report

Feb 12 2007 // If some politicians can be accused of engaging in “fuzzy” math, some property/casualty insurers might be said to practice “fuzzy” marketing. They call themselves Super Regionals but everyone has a...