Latest Insurance Journal Headlines

All the headlines from our Insurance Journal Topic Page, ordered by recency.

Editor’s Note: All the News That’s Fit to Print

Aug 22 2005 // When I attended several recent news events and conferences I noticed thatwhen I entered the room, people’s “hackles” immediately went up-they either stopped talking or began speaking in muted tones, as if...

Insurance Journal Airs Fight against Fraud

Jul 21 2005 // Fraud costs the insurance industry between $85 billion and $120 billion a year, according to the Insurance Information Institute (I.I.I.). Independent agents, claims adjusters, and most importantly consumers are impacted...

Insurance Journal Airs Daily Fraudcaster Online

Jul 18 2005 // n6insurancejournal.xtg TITLE: Insurance Journal Airs Daily Fraudcaster Online Fraud costs the insurance industry between $85 billion and $120 billion a year, according to the Insurance Information Institute. Independent...

Farmers, Allstate Take Top Honors at IMCA 2005 Showcase Awards; Insurance Journal Honored

Jul 6 2005 // Farmers Insurance Group received the top honor and Allstate Insurance Company received nine Best of Show awards at the Insurance Marketing Communications Association (IMCA) 2005 Showcase Awards, held during the IMCA annual...

States Close In on Finite Reinsurance Disclosure; N.Y. Agrees to Adopt Model

Jun 13 2005 // State insurance regulators moved closer to final adoption of a model finite reinsurance disclosure regulation at the summer meeting of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners in Boston this weekend.As they did,...

More Agencies Join Insurance Journal Top Listing

Jun 6 2005 // Some missed the print deadline by mere minutes, others by not much more. Others fell victim to glitches in system. So Insurance Journal has updated its popular Top Independent Agency listing for 2005 that ran in its May 9,...

A Talk with New York Superintendent of Insurance Howard Mills

May 23 2005 // Pataki’s appointee brings Albany background to Spitzer-era regulatory challengesI think I’m a pretty quick study,” Howard Mills told Insurance Journal. He’s not had much choice. The former...

Insurance Journal Salutes Nation’s Top Agencies for 2005

May 20 2005 // A record number of agencies submitted entries for the 2005 Top Independent Insurance Agencies listing in Insurance Journal, which was published in the May 9 edition of Insurance Journal’s five regional print...

Garamendi Covers Workers’ Comp to Run for Lt. Governor in Talk with Insurance Journal

May 17 2005 // With the list of insurance industry issues never small in California, Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi recently took time out from his schedule to chat with Online Editor Dave Thomas. Is the workers’...

Agents and Brokers: Top 10 Reasons to Join the Top 100… and Let Your Success be Known

Apr 21 2005 // Insurance Journal’s search for the nation’s top privately-owned independent insurance agencies and brokerages is continuing but some qualified firms have not yet sent in their entry forms.The final deadline has...

Insurance Journal Wants to Hear About Your Family Agency

Apr 15 2005 // Are you a family-owned and operated retail agency doing business in the West? If so, Insurance Journal wants to hear from you. IJ will be profiling family agencies in its May 9 West issue. If you would like to be...

Search Underway for Nation’s Top Independent Insurance Agencies

Apr 15 2005 // Insurance Journal Says It’s Time to Recognize Top Performing AgenciesWith some 60,000 privately held independent agencies nationwide, locating the most successful ones is a tough job but some company’s got to...

Search for Nation’s Top Independent Insurance Agencies Commences

Apr 14 2005 // With some 60,000 privately held independent agencies and brokerages nationwide, locating the most successful ones is a tough job but some company’s got to do it. That company is Insurance Journal.Insurance Journal is...

Insurance Journal ‘How to Write’ Series Looks at Lawyers Malpractice April 13

Apr 12 2005 // Insurance Journal will present the fourth in its year-long series of ‘How to Write’ seminars on Wednesday, April 13, with a look at lawyers malpractice.Scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. (PST), the seminar’s...

Insurance Journal ‘How to Write’ Series Focuses on Medical Malpractice March 10

Mar 8 2005 // Insurance Journal will present the third in its year-long series of ‘How to Write’ seminars on Thursday, March 10, with a look at medical malpractice.Scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. (PST), the seminar’s...

Marsh & McLennan Faces Off with Insurance Journal Readers

Feb 21 2005 // The street has become a superhighway, far removed from the clubby atmosphere of Los Angeles’ Wilshire Blvd. or New York’s Pine Street. Anybody can now comment on the latest industry happenings over the...

Insurance Journal’s Yellow Pages Dial Up Success

Feb 14 2005 // If you’ve seen a big yellow advertisement on both insurancejournal.com and claimsguides.com lately and wondered just what the Yellow Pages are, wonder no more.Insurance Journal unveiled the Yellow Pages in the last...

Insurance Journal to Publish Top E&S Broker List

Jan 24 2005 // Insurance Journal magazine will publish its inaugural Top Excess & Surplus Lines Broker list on Feb. 21, 2005, in all five of its regional editions. Managing general agencies, wholesalers and managing general...

Hull & Co. On Board as Sponsor of Insurance Journal’s Online Seminar Series

Jan 17 2005 // Florida-based Hull & Co. is among the sponsors as Insurance Journal debuts the first in a series of “How to Write” online video seminars Thursday, Jan. 20, 2005. Hull & Co. will sponsor the Florida...

AVRECO Serves as Sponsor for Insurance Journal Online Seminar; First in Series Set for Jan. 20

Jan 12 2005 // One of the nation’s largest independent wholesalers will be among the sponsors when Insurance Journal kicks off its “How to Write” online video seminars on Thursday, Jan. 20.Chicago-based AVRECO...