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Career Criminal Sentenced for Fraud

Feb 24 2003 // A former resident of Jupiter, Fla. was sentenced in Martin County Circuit Court to 20 years in prison after pleading no contest to fraud and grand theft charges stemming from his use of aliases in a scheme to reportedly...

Willis Re Makes Hirings in Chicago Office

Jan 17 2003 // Willis Re announced the recent hiring of facultative brokers in the Chicago office.Noreen Metcalfe has joined the office as vice president and property manager. She brings 17 years of property reinsurance underwriting...

Michael Flaharty Named Managing Director of New GAB Robins Consulting Group

Jan 16 2003 // The GAB Robins Group of Companies, a leading claims services firm, announced that it has formed GAB Robins Capital Partners Consulting Group and appointed Michael Flaharty, an internationally recognized expert on claims...

Fireman’s Fund McGee Unveiled Nationwide with New E-solution for Managing Ocean Cargo Insurance

Jan 8 2003 // Fireman’s Fund McGee Marine Underwriters is making FOCUS(SM), its new e-solution for managing ocean cargo insurance, available to agents/brokers and their clients on a nationwide basis.The FOCUS Solution, which...

Schwarz to Take CEO Job at Hallmark

Dec 31 2002 // Hallmark Financial Services Inc., based in Dallas, announced that president and chief executive officer Linda H. Sleeper will leave the company effective January 1, 2003. Hallmark’s Board of Directors elected board...

PMI Group Announces Hiring of CFO, Donald Lofe, Jr.

Dec 18 2002 // The PMI Group Inc. named Donald P. Lofe, Jr. executive vice president and CFO, effective Jan. 6, 2003. Lofe will manage the financial, accounting and reporting functions for PMI. His roles will include overseeing GAAP and...

RAND, Risk Management Solutions Form Alliance to Study Terror Risk, Compensation

Dec 16 2002 // RAND and Risk Management Solutions (RMS) have formed a partnership to create a research center at RAND to study the risk of terrorism and how to compensate victims of terrorism.The center’s goal will be to support...

AMP to Cut 1900 Jobs at Pearl, Reduce U.K. Operations

Dec 4 2002 // The long anticipated job cuts at Peal Insurance, the loss making U.K. subsidiary of Australia’s AMP, have finally been announced. CEO Andrew Mohl said yesterday that the company plans on reducing its workforce by...

Workers’ Compensation

Dec 2 2002 // Nuts & Bolts: PMC Insurance Group is offering a program for workers’ compensation.Dollars: Policy limits are statutory. Minimum premiums of $5,000. Carrier: AIG, Kemper, Zurich, Crum & Forster, Hartford....

Workers’ Compensation

Dec 2 2002 // Nuts & Bolts: Gaslamp Insurance Services Inc. is offering a program for workers’ compensation.Dollars: Policy limits of $1,000,000/$1,000,000/$1,000,000. No minimum premium. Carrier: PEO. Admitted market.States...

Hartford Study Says Producer Compensation Tied to Agency Size, Profitability

Nov 19 2002 // Revenues and profitability largely determine the total compensation levels for insurance agency owners, executives and producers, according to the new Business Management Group (BMG) 2002 Owner, Executive & Producer...

Managing the Cycle

Nov 11 2002 // Much has been written in the insurance press lately about the cyclical nature of the insurance industry. Now the market is hard, or hardening. For most of the 1990s stock markets boomed, the insurance market softened and...

S&P’s Lowers American Compensation Co. Ratings

Nov 5 2002 // Standard & Poor’s has lowered its financial strength rating on American Compensation Insurance Co. (ACIC) to single-‘Bpi’ from triple-‘Bpi’ because for year-end 2001 and 2000, ACIC had a...

GAB Robins Names New Managing Director for Capital Partners Division

Nov 4 2002 // GAB Robins North America, Inc. named Dianne Parker, senior vice president and managing director of GAB Robins Capital Partners. GAB Robins Capital Partners is a division that designs runoff solutions, provides outsourcing...

Core Solutions Announces Workers’ Compensation Initiative

Oct 4 2002 // Core Solutions Inc. announced that it has developed a strategic initiative that will allow its clients to effectively manage the rising costs related to maintaining workers’ compensation coverage. President Christine...

Principals Can Use New Tool to Manage Producers

Sep 30 2002 // Agency principals and managers have a new tool available to assist in the process of hiring and managing producers. The product is entitled “Hiring and Managing Inexperienced ProducersTM,” written and produced...

S.C. Sees Decrease in Job Site Deaths

Sep 30 2002 // Studies show that fewer South Carolina workers are dying on the job and safety training is being attributed to the decline.According to the South Carolina newspaper The State, the increased emphasis by businesses and...

Attracting and Retaining Employees in a Competitive World

Sep 16 2002 // One consistent trend throughout the United States is the difficulty in finding people to fill job openings. No matter where I travel, I hear this lament from agency owners and managers. In some areas of the country, there...

Management More Crucial Than Ever

Sep 16 2002 // When I was a student in college and majoring in insurance, my professors used to tell us that there was a crying need for good, educated insurance agents.In their opinion, there were too many agents who were insufficiently...

Management More Crucial Than Ever

Sep 16 2002 // When I was a student in college and majoring in insurance, my professors used to tell us that there was a crying need for good, educated insurance agents.In their opinion, there were too many agents who were insufficiently...