All the headlines from our Numbers Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 24 2010 // Owners of small businesses — like many insurance agencies — spend more of their time working on today’s issues than tomorrow’s potential. It’s an approach that may keep the doors open for now,...
Jan 22 2010 // Austin, Texas-based Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA) announced six of its member agencies – Bigham-Kliewer-Chapman-Watts Insurance Agency, The Bridges Group Inc., Bryan Insurance Agency, Ed Berrong Insurance...
Jan 14 2010 // Four former insurance agents have pleaded guilty for their role in a scheme to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars in premiums, New Jersey’s attorney general said.They are Thomas Hurd, of Bensalem, Pa., William...
Jan 10 2010 // Owners of small businesses – like many insurance agencies – spend more of their time working on today’s issues than tomorrow’s potential. It’s an approach that may keep the doors open for now,...
Jan 5 2010 // The New Hampshire Legislature is expected to consider two bills that would prevent the state from enforcing amendments to building codes that expand requirements for sprinkler systems.Last month the Building Code Review...
Dec 22 2009 // The importance of converting leads is clear to anyone who understands the concept of ROI (return on investment). The internet has changed the game in insurance sales, and anyone thinking that the old business models will...
Dec 18 2009 // “Since insurance rates were partially deregulated in 1995, the California workers’ compensation insurance market has been very volatile. For reasons that go beyond price deregulation, there have been dramatic...
Dec 11 2009 // Just over one-quarter of U.S. adult health care spending was associated with disability in 2006, according to a new study by researchers at RTI International and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention.The...
Dec 10 2009 // The U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington has designated Grant and Luna counties in New Mexico as primary natural disaster areas due to losses caused by drought and high winds that occurred since Jan. 1. Agriculture...
Dec 8 2009 // The insurance industry may not see a return to relative stability and certainty for a few years as it reacts to the effects of regulatory reform, increased government intervention and potential tax law changes in the...
Dec 6 2009 // While one company has gotten out of the business of insuring political campaigns, another is throwing its hat in the ring. Markel Risk Solutions, based in Glen Allen, Va., is offering campaigns a multiline, admitted...
Dec 2 2009 // Pennsylvania insurance agencies, The Securus Group and The Dunlop Agency, have merged in a move they say is aimed at bolstering their market share in the Lehigh Valley and South Central regions of the state.The merged...
Dec 1 2009 // Six former employees of the University of Southern Maine who lost their jobs in a consolidation move are claiming they were discriminated against because of their ages.The former employees, between the ages of 55 and 65,...
Nov 24 2009 // While one company has gotten out of the business of insuring political campaigns, another is throwing its hat in the ring.Markel Risk Solutions, based in Glen Allen, Virginia, is offering campaigns a multi-line, admitted...
Nov 15 2009 // Three former Marsh Inc. executives have been acquitted of criminal charges in a bid-rigging and price-fixing scheme in which they were accused of colluding to steer clients to favored insurers.Joseph Peiser, who led...
Oct 28 2009 // New York fire officials say two people have been injured in an explosion that badly damaged a two-story home in the Flushing section of Queens.A Fire Department spokesman says one person was hospitalized with non-life...
Oct 27 2009 // Three former Marsh Inc. executives were acquitted Monday of criminal charges in a bid-rigging and price-fixing scheme in which they were accused of colluding to steer clients to favored insurers.Joseph Peiser, who led...
Oct 9 2009 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance reported it has issued cease and desist orders to two West Monroe, La.-area agents for allegedly allowing unlicensed employees to conduct the business of insurance. Eight unlicensed...
Sep 30 2009 // Firefighters in six Texas cities will be installing smoke alarms into the homes of low income and elderly residents thanks to this year’s “We’re Out to Alarm Texas” smoke alarm campaign. The program...
Sep 14 2009 // Two residents of San Jose, Calif., have been arrested on automobile insurance fraud charges, after one of them attempted to buy insurance immediately after an accident.“Insurance fraud perpetrators drive up the cost...