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Compromise Plan on Oregon MalpracticeDamages Drawing Concerns

Jun 6 2005 // After months of talks by doctors, attorneys and legislators, a compromise plan on limited court damages to medical negligence victims may have emerged. But the proposal, which is getting an airing in the state Senate, is...

Could Washington Be Listening to Small Business?

Jun 6 2005 // Many of the greatest problems small businesses face are government-related, particularly something they call ‘unreasonable governmentregulation.’ There probably are few American small business owners who could...

Compromise Plan on Oregon Malpractice Damages Drawing Concerns

Jun 6 2005 // After months of talks by doctors, attorneys and legislators, a compromise plan on limited court damages to medical negligence victims may have emerged. But the proposal, which is getting an airing in the state Senate, is...

Compromise Plan on Oregon Malpractice Damages Drawing Concerns

Jun 6 2005 // After months of talks by doctors, attorneys and legislators, a compromise plan on limited court damages to medical negligence victims may have emerged. But the proposal, which is getting an airing in the state Senate, is...

Ausco, Great American Team to Offer Specialized Liability Coverages

May 25 2005 // Ausco and Ohio-based Great American Insurance Company’s Executive Liability Division (ELD) will enter a new business relationship offering non-profit liability and employment practices liability insurance to select...

FBI Targets Insurance in Probe of Carrier, Agent and PEO Practices

May 23 2005 // The insurance industry, already under scrutiny in some segments by state and federal authorities for various compensation, reinsurance, bid-rigging and accounting practices, now faces another questioner. The Federal Bureau...

Could Washington Be Listening to Small Business?

May 23 2005 // There probably are few American small business owners who could correctly identify the federal group whose primary job is to keep the president of the United States updated on the activities of government such as...

Life Settlements — Understanding the Risks and the Benefits

May 23 2005 // What is a life settlement? Simply put, a life settlement is the sale of an unwanted, no longer effective life insurance policy. It may potentially be a better solution with a greater cash settlement than lapsing or...

Could Washington Be Listening to Small Business?

May 23 2005 // Many of the greatest problems small businesses face are government-related, particularly something they call ‘unreasonable governmentregulation.’ There probably are few American small business owners who could...

People

May 23 2005 // James Robinson Huber has been appointed senior vice president and regional executive, Southeast Region for ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operating division of The ACE Group of Companies. Based in Atlanta, Huber will be...

Young Named VP of National Premium Finance Association

May 19 2005 // Chicago-based brokerage giant Aon Corp. announced that Cananwill Premium Funding President Mildred J. Young has been named vice president of the National Premium Finance Association. Cananwill is a wholly-owned subsidiary...

PCI Says Insurers Survive Colorado Legislative Session

May 10 2005 // In what best could be called “Survivor: The Colorado Legislative Session,” there were many twists, turns and surprises along the road to adjournment recently, however the insurance industry successfully worked...

ARIZ. TO GET FEDERAL HELP FOR STORM RECOVERY:

May 9 2005 // Federal disaster funds have been made available for Arizona to help local governments recover from the effects of a round of severe storms that struck the state in February, the head of the U.S. Department of Homeland...

FBI Targets Insurers in Widening Fraud Probe; Industry Responds

May 5 2005 // The insurance industry, already under scrutiny by state and federal authorities for various practices, now faces another questioner. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has launched a probe of the insurance industry that...

Main Street America to Participate in Charity Event

May 4 2005 // Breast cancer research will benefit May 14 when the Research Is The Answer Caring And Sharing Hope 5 K Walk and Run will be held in the Tinseltown area of Jacksonville, Fla. The start and finish lines will be at the...

Fireman’s Fund Contributes More than $500,000 to Chicagoland Firefighters

Apr 28 2005 // Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company is awarding fire agencies throughout the Chicagoland area with more than $500,000 in grants and donations for firefighting equipment, firefighter training, community fire safety...

Federal Disaster Funds Authorized for Ariz. to Aid Local Government Storm Recovery

Apr 19 2005 // Federal disaster funds have been made available for Arizona to help local governments recover from the effects of another round of severe storms that struck the state in February, the head of the U.S. Department of...

Could Washington Be Listening to Small Business?

Apr 18 2005 // There probably are few American small business owners who could correctly identify the federal group whose primary job is to keep the president of the United States updated on the activities of government such as...

Watson to Serve on CIC Board of Governors

Apr 15 2005 // Jack L. Watson, president of Collier Insurance Agency Inc., Blakely, Georgia has been selected to serve on the Certified Insurance Counselor’s Board of Governors according to an announcement from The National...

Insurers Offer Advice to Storm Victims in Okla.

Apr 7 2005 // An insurance trade association with responsibility for Oklahoma and Texas reported that the violent storm that struck Tulsa recently will cost tens of millions of dollars in insured losses.“The full extent of the...