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Florida Municipal Insurance Trust Says 2009 a ‘Record’ Year

Dec 15 2009 // The non-profit insurance trust for cities and towns in Florida reports it had a record-breaking year in 2009, with a 35 percent increase in written premiums and a 92 percent renewal rate among its municipal customers. The...

Texas Agent Volunteers for 7th Home Building Trip to Nicaragua

Nov 19 2009 // In 2005, when Cory Brooke, a partner of TCOR Insurance Management in Beeville, Texas, traveled to Nicaragua with other insurance executives as a volunteer for non-profit Bridges to Community, he was the only Texan in the...

Nonprofit Aims to Improve Holiday Giving

Nov 15 2009 // The California Insurance Professionals (CAIP) will be hosting its annual fundraiser holiday party from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009, in Los Angeles.CAIP is an insurance industry organization developed within...

Baltimore Jury Awards $2.5M in Lead Paint Case

Nov 6 2009 // A Baltimore brother and sister have been awarded $2.5 million in a lead paint case. Jurors decided Tuesday in favor of 20-year-old Dontae Wallace and 17-year-old Searra Wallace. Attorneys say their cognitive and behavioral...

Allstate Agents Petition IRS for Review of Independent Contractor Status

Oct 19 2009 // The National Association of Professional Allstate Agents (NAPAA) has published and is distributing a petition to the Internal Revenue Service, written by an unidentified Allstate agent, questioning whether Allstate has...

Allstate Agents Challenge IRS Over Independent Contractor Status

Oct 19 2009 // The National Association of Professional Allstate Agents (NAPAA) has petitioned the Internal Revenue Service, questioning whether Allstate has lived up to the promise it made in 2000 to make its agents true independent...

Pennsylvania AG Sues Texas Firm Over Lost Health Insurance

Oct 15 2009 // Pennsylvania’s attorney general has sued a Texas company that allegedly stopped paying employees’ health insurance premiums for five months before its insurer retroactively canceled coverage, leaving some...

Public Input Sought on Use of Louisiana Storm Recovery Money

Oct 13 2009 // Louisiana’s disaster recovery agency is seeking public input on plans to spend $112 million for rebuilding after hurricanes Gustav and Ike in 2008.Louisiana Recovery Authority Director Paul Rainwater said the agency...

Allstate Agents Petition IRS for Review of Independent Contractor Status

Oct 8 2009 // The National Association of Professional Allstate Agents (NAPAA) has published and is distributing a petition to the Internal Revenue Service, written by an unidentified Allstate agent, questioning whether Allstate has...

London American Risk Specialists, Inc Congratulates GSID in the Development of a New HIV Preventative Vaccine

Oct 6 2009 // Houston, Texas October 6, 2009 – London American Risk Specialists, Inc. is pleased to congratulate our mutual Chapman & Associates client, Global Solutions for Infectious Diseases (GSID) for its work in the...

Declarations

Oct 5 2009 // They Could Have Been Fixed“The people could have fixed their homes if they had money. But they (state officials) are so scared that somebody’s going to get a dime they shouldn’t have gotten, nobody gets...

U.S. Senate Panel Rejects Public Healthcare Option; More Votes Ahead

Sep 30 2009 // A U.S. Senate panel Tuesday rejected a government-run “public” insurance option as part of a broad healthcare overhaul, handing insurers an early victory and setting the stage for a long fight over one of the...

4 Years Later, Texas Housing Agency Says Rita Aid Pace Picking Up

Sep 28 2009 // Hundreds of southeast Texans displaced by Hurricane Rita four years ago are still waiting for new federally funded homes to be built while a state agency tries to spend the housing construction money it has a little...

Travelers Offers Network and Information Security Offense Coverage

Aug 27 2009 // Travelers Bond & Financial Products is now offering Network and Information Security Offense coverage endorsements on its Wrap+ policies. These endorsements are available for eligible policyholders in targeted private...

Huge Hacking Case Highlights Companies’ Vulnerability to Breaches

Aug 24 2009 // Consumers and companies are vulnerable to hackers and identity thieves even after U.S. authorities arrested a man they said was a master hacker who stole 170 million credit and debit card numbers.Estimates on the total...

M&A Activity Continues at a Snail’s Pace Compared to 2008

Aug 13 2009 // Insurance brokerage mergers and acquisitions in the second quarter of 2009 was nearly half of what is was during the second quarter of 2008. Just 39 transactions were announced from April through June compared to last year...

M&A Activity Continues at a Snail’s Pace Compared to 2008

Aug 3 2009 // Insurance brokerage mergers and acquisitions in the second quarter of 2009 was nearly half of what is was during the second quarter of 2008. Just 39 transactions were announced from April through June compared to last year...

Kansas Town Destroyed by Tornado Now a Model ‘Green’ Community

Jul 27 2009 // Greensburg, Kan., which was nearly wiped off the map by a tornado two years ago, is famous for having the world’s largest hand-dug well and the world’s largest pallasite meteorite.Now it’s another tourist...

Premier Sponsors Professional Liability Insurance for Not-for-Profit Hospitals

Jul 20 2009 // Premier Insurance Management Services Inc. (PIMS) out of Charlotte, North Carolina, is offering a new professional medical liability insurance program to not-for-profit hospital members of the Premier healthcare...

Tennessee Medical Fee Schedule Cuts Workers’ Compensation Costs: Study

Jul 16 2009 // The implementation of a medical fee schedule in Tennessee after reforms passed in 2004 has helped save employers $1,300 per workers’ compensation case, according to a study by a research group.The study by he Workers...