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Oct 20 2008 // Top 100 Agency ProfileRanking: 12 Agency Name: InterWest Insurance Services Inc. Headquarters: Sacramento, Calif. Year Founded: 1992 Additional Locations: 9 locations in California 2007 Property/Casualty Premium: $519.6...
Oct 20 2008 // Agribusiness insurance has grown significantly as food production has become a global commodity. Since World War II there has been a dramatic reduction in the number of family farms and acreage being cultivated for food...
Oct 20 2008 // One of Pat Oliphant’s more recent editorial cartoons shows presidential candidate John McCain held in the trunk of an enraged elephant labeled “The Economy.” “My friends,” says McCain to a...
Oct 17 2008 // American International Group, the insurance giant that drew fire for executive “golden parachutes” and an ill-timed junket even as it receives a massive taxpayer bailout, has agreed to mend its ways.AIG...
Oct 17 2008 // Crane safety experts from around the nation are meeting in New York City to discuss national standards following several deadly crane accidents this year. Nine people died in two crane collapses earlier this year in...
Oct 14 2008 // The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services has launched a Web site to help address concerns about the security of personal finances.The Web page addresses common questions about insurance policies, bank and...
Oct 13 2008 // Bermuda’s XL Capital Ltd has provided the following “preliminary metrics” on its expected third quarter 2008 results. XL said its independent auditors are currently reviewing the results for the quarter,...
Oct 10 2008 // PARSIPPANY, N.J., (October 10, 2008) – York Insurance Services Group, Inc., a premier national provider of insurance services, including claims handling, specialized loss adjusting, managed care, insurance pool...
Oct 10 2008 // American International Group’s meltdown may serve at least one (if not more) positive purpose: spotlighting the difference between the insurance professional and the non-professional.Insurance professionals will have...
Oct 8 2008 // Teenage drivers can now share their own safety tips and experiences behind the wheel with other teens across Florida.The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles says the site, TakeTheWheel.net, was created...
Oct 6 2008 // The Texas Department of Insurance announced enforcement actions taken by Commissioner Mike Geeslin that became final during August resulted in four license revocations, three license denials and fines and restitution...
Oct 6 2008 // An insurance group has canceled another conference scheduled at The Greenbrier resort in West Virginia because of an ongoing contract dispute between the resort and its employees. The Council of Insurance Agents and...
Oct 6 2008 // The South Carolina Safe Home Hurricane Damage Mitigation Program has a new Web site. The site, www.scsafehome.sc.gov, offers information about the damage mitigation grant program as well as information about the various...
Oct 6 2008 // Soft market conditions could last for another nine months to five years, predict representatives from the agent, broker, carrier, reinsurance, and excess and surplus lines sectors of the insurance industry.“I...
Oct 1 2008 // The North Carolina Department of Insurance Office of State Fire Marshal and the UNC Healthcare Jaycee Burn Center are the co-hosts of the 2008 World Burn Congress in Raleigh.Each year more than 500,000 people are treated...
Oct 1 2008 // The Alliance of Insurance Agents and Brokers has created the George Joseph Educational Foundation to support insurance training for association members, provide educational scholarships for the next generation of insurance...
Sep 30 2008 // Woodbury, NY, September 30 2008 – Access General Agency (AGA), the leading provider of homeowners insurance solutions to independent brokers in the United States, has launched a brand new fully-interactive web site...
Sep 30 2008 // Membership among volunteer firefighters in Texas has dropped to levels predating a surge brought on by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks seven years ago, a state official says.Many found firefighting less glamorous than they...
Sep 26 2008 // A business group canceled another conference scheduled at The Greenbrier because of an ongoing contract dispute between the West Virginia resort and its employees.The Washington, D.C.-based Council of Insurance Agents and...
Sep 24 2008 // In response to global insurance industry software needs, Oracle has formed a new business unit, Oracle Insurance, and unveiled Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA) Foundation Pack for Insurance at the San...