All the headlines from our Leadership Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 24 2005 // The Louisiana Health Care Alliance (LHCA) presented state Commissioner of Insurance Robert Wooley with their 2004 Leadership in Health Care Award for his commitment to improving the availability and affordability of health...
Jan 20 2005 // Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt announced the appointment of W. Dale Finke to head the Missouri Department of Insurance. Finke is CEO and president of Corporate Insurance Management in St. Louis.He was president of the Missouri...
Jan 14 2005 // Oklahoma Senate President Pro Tempore Cal Hobson, D-Lexington, offered the following statement regarding reform of the state’s workers’ compensation system, which is expected in the legislative session that...
Dec 29 2004 // President George W. Bush told Asian leaders that the United States is committed to helping their countries following Sunday’s earthquake and killer tsunamis that have killed more than 60,000 people.The following is a...
Dec 15 2004 // Willis Group Holdings (NYSE: WSH), has announced that Gary Beck, with 28 years in the insurance broking industry, has joined Willis as the Professional Services Industry Practice Leader. Beck joins Willis from the Aon...
Dec 7 2004 // The Tillinghast business of Towers Perrin has appointed Prakash Shimpi as practice leader with global responsibility for Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) in its New York office. In this role, Shimpi will lead the...
Dec 6 2004 // The Oregon state ethics commission has launched an investigation into the lobbying activities of Katherine Keene, the former president of the SAIF Corp.At issue is whether Keene, who resigned in 2003, failed to register as...
Nov 22 2004 // The state ethics commission has launched an investigation into the lobbying activities of Katherine Keene, the former president of the SAIF Corp.At issue is whether Keene, who resigned in 2003, failed to register as a...
Nov 5 2004 // “We are Main Street agents. This problem was created on Wall Street.”A Connecticut independent agent leader hopes the reality behind those words will help protect independent agents from being grouped with...
Oct 28 2004 // Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller this week blasted Gov. Robert Ehrlich’s latest medical malpractice plan as “a work of fiction” and “a completely different bill” from the one he, the...
Oct 18 2004 // Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich and top legislative leaders emerged from a meeting in the governor’s mansion last Thursday, holding out hope of a special legislative session next month to deal with a medical malpractice...
Oct 12 2004 // Applied Systems Client Network (ASCnet), the user group of Applied Systems management technology, announced independent agent Jo Ann Litwin, president of Litwin, Castle & Christ in Orchard Park, N.Y., as the third...
Sep 27 2004 // Seattle-based Safeco announced a new leadership structure for the company, reflecting its evolution from a turnaround concern to a profit-and-growth enterprise.The cornerstone of the structure is the newly created...
Sep 13 2004 // James B. Meathe, president and chief operating officer for Palmer & Cay, announced that Richard Huntington has joined Palmer & Cay in the position of Southwest Health Care Practice Leader. Huntington will be...
Sep 6 2004 // Insurance brokerage and consulting firm Summit Global Partners of Texas Inc. announced the selection of Diane N. Sandlin as property and casualty practice leader of its Austin and Houston offices.Sandlin will manage...
Aug 23 2004 // Ambassador Paul Bremer, who headed up the provisional government in Iraq, and Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader whose policies are credited with ending the Cold War, will be the keynote speakers at the 91st...
Aug 12 2004 // ABD Insurance and Financial Services, a leading provider of global risk management and employee benefits solutions, announced appointments within the company’s property/casualty leadership and construction industry...
Aug 1 2004 // U.K. businesses are being increasingly hampered by the costs of dealing with the burgeoning compensation culture, which in turn is diverting management resources and financial investment away from core business and revenue...
Jul 29 2004 // Ambassador Paul Bremer, who headed up the provisional government in Iraq, and Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader whose policies are credited with ending the Cold War, will be the keynote speakers at the 91st...
Jul 19 2004 // Orlando – From Capt. Scott O’Grady who survived six days in hostile territory after his F-16 was shot down enforcing the no-fly zone over Bosnia. To Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America’s...