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Agents Urged to Tell Insureds of Flood Program Lapse

Mar 1 2010 // Insurance agents with customers waiting to be covered in the federal flood insurance program should tell those customers about the program’s suspension, an insurance expert is advising.As reported by Insurance...

Nevada Assembly Rejects Insurance Verification Cameras

Feb 26 2010 // Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons amended his proclamation for the Legislature’s special session to include sweeping reforms to collective bargaining, education, water law — and said lawmakers should be quick about their...

AAMGA Funds $1 Million Insurance Chair at Georgia State University

Feb 26 2010 // The wholesale insurance industry association, American Association of Managing General Agents (AAMGA), has created a Distinguished Chair in Risk Management and Insurance at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at...

IMA Inc. Appoints Hartman to Health Risk Management Practice in Denver

Feb 23 2010 // IMA Inc., an independently owned retail insurance broker announced that Brent Hartman has joined the company’s health risk management practice, Life IQ, in the Denver office.Life IQ is IMA’s multidisciplinary...

Texas Students Awarded Insurance Council Scholarships

Feb 22 2010 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) has awarded academic scholarships to students at Southern Methodist University (SMU) and the University of Houston – Downtown (UHD). The students represent each school’s...

How Program Partners Can Help You Sell Value

Feb 21 2010 // “Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”—Warren BuffetAgents, brokers and underwriters should heed Mr. Buffet’s advice and consider how they’re doing business. I’ll bet if I asked...

Hawaii Could Tap Hurricane Fund to Fund School Education

Feb 21 2010 // Hawaii is closer to tapping its Hurricane Relief Fund to help balance the state budget and resolve teacher furloughs, as a legislative committee advanced a bill that would appropriate $50 million from the fund.Senate Bill...

Young Agents Survey

Feb 21 2010 // Most enter the insurance business by accident but for young independent insurance agents, the decision to stick with insurance as a permanent career is a matter of choice.A healthy 84 percent of young insurance agents say...

Arch Capital Posts $284.7 Million Q4 Net Income; Conference Call Today

Feb 17 2010 // The Bermuda-based Arch Capital Group Ltd reported that net income available to common shareholders for the 2009 fourth quarter of $284.7 million, or $4.75 per share, compared to a net loss to common shareholders of $143.0...

Live Webinar Tomorrow for Agency Owners and Carriers: When Good CRMs Go Bad hosted by Leads360

Feb 16 2010 // Your insurance leads need special attention to become customers. It is not easy to get sophisticated consumers to buy, and that is why you need to leverage every tool available to make your time as effective as possible....

AXIS Posts Q4, Full Year Net Income Gains; Conference Call Details

Feb 9 2010 // Bermuda-based AXIS Capital Holdings Limited reported net income for the fourth quarter of 2009 of $282 million, or $1.87 per diluted common share, compared with net income of $131 million, or $0.88 per diluted common share...

Beware of Budget Cuts that Bite Back

Feb 7 2010 // It’s a safe bet that relatively few public entity administrators or officials grew up wishing they’d become magicians one day. But if you read closely between the lines of their job descriptions, the role is...

Texas Mutual Awards $300K in Safety Education Grants

Feb 5 2010 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company has awarded a combined $300,000 in grants to Kilgore College, Midland College and College of the Mainland in Texas City. The grants will fund free workplace safety courses for employers,...

ACE Posts $2.549 Billion 2009 Net Income; Conference Call Today

Feb 3 2010 // ACE Limited reported net income for the quarter ended December 31, 2009, of $953 million, or $2.81 per share, compared with $0.06 per share for the same quarter last year.For the full year ACE reported net income of $2.549...

Hawaii Could Tap Hurricane Fund to Fund School Education

Feb 3 2010 // Hawaii is closer to tapping its Hurricane Relief Fund to help balance the state budget and resolve teacher furloughs, as a legislative committee advanced a bill that would appropriate $50 million from the fund.Senate Bill...

Washington Workplace Violence-Related Deaths Climbed in 2009

Feb 2 2010 // The slayings last year of six law enforcement officers, as well as several workplace suicides, caused deaths due to workplace violence to spike upward in Washington State, the Department of Labor & Industries (L&I)...

TV Networks, Talent Firm Reach $70 Million Settlement With Older Writers

Jan 25 2010 // Seventeen major television networks and production studios and seven talent agencies have reached a $70 million settlement of complaints brought by 165 writers aged 40 or older who alleged age discrimination.Approximately...

Becoming Chris Boggs

Jan 24 2010 // In October 2008, my colleague and friend, Christopher J. Boggs, associate editor of MyNewMarkets.com and frequent contributor to Insurance Journal, wrote:“The beginning of mandated insurance continuing education (CE)...

Becoming Chris Boggs

Jan 24 2010 // In October, 2008, my colleague, Christopher J. Boggs, associate editor of MyNewMarkets.com and frequent contributor to Insurance Journal, wrote:“The beginning of mandated insurance continuing education was the end of...

Becoming Chris Boggs

Jan 24 2010 // In October 2008, my colleague and friend, Christopher J. Boggs, associate editor of MyNewMarkets.com and frequent contributor to Insurance Journal, wrote:“The beginning of mandated insurance continuing education (CE)...