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People

Jan 22 2018 // Connie Clarke has been appointed president of TDECU Insurance Agency LLC in Lake Jackson, Texas.Clarke brings more than 20 years’ experience in both the insurance and financial services industries to the...

Zurich Shares Lessons from First Earn-and-Learn U.S. Apprenticeship Class

Jan 22 2018 // In early 2016, Zurich North America teamed up with William Rainey Harper College in Palatine, Ill., to offer an apprenticeship in insurance program and now its first group of employee-students have graduated with a job at...

‘Super Underwriter’ Hoopingarner Wins Insurance Journal’s ‘Coolest Part of Your Job’ Contest

Jan 22 2018 // Insurance underwriter Aubrie Hoopingarner said she wound up working in insurance the same way many people in the industry start their careers, she “kind of stumbled into it!”Now, nearly a decade into a...

Consolidation Continues: The Squeezing of Wholesale Brokers

Jan 22 2018 // Wholesale insurance brokers have been selling off their businesses and it’s not because they are all ready to retire.As in the retail agency segment, consolidation among wholesale brokerages is being driven by buyers...

Drone Owners Warned Against Use near Oklahoma Air Force Base

Jan 19 2018 // Officials at a northern Oklahoma air force base are asking the public to keep recreational drones away from aircraft after a near collision on a training flight.Lt. Col. Eric Schmidt works at Vance Air Force Base. He told...

Massachusetts’ Coverys Invests in Patient Engagement, Medical Education Companies

Jan 19 2018 // Coverys, a Boston, Mass.-based medical professional liability insurance provider, has announced its investment in two separate organizations, Knowledge Diffusion Inc. (Osmosis) and Pack Health LLC (Pack Health).Osmosis is...

Collins Named Director of Talent at Swingle Collins & Associates

Jan 10 2018 // North Texas-based privately owned independent insurance agency and brokerage firm, Swingle Collins & Associates, has named LeAnn Collins as the company’s director of Talent.As a key member of the leadership team,...

‘Super Underwriter’ Hoopingarner Wins Insurance Journal’s ‘Coolest Part of Your Job’ Contest

Jan 10 2018 // Insurance underwriter Aubrie Hoopingarner says she wound up working in insurance the same way many people in the industry start their careers, she “kind of stumbled into it!” Now, nearly a decade into a...

California Wholesaler Conference Questions: Rising Premiums, Disruption, Disasters?

Jan 9 2018 // Surplus lines in California had a great year with more premium and more items, such as policies and endorsements sold.However, surplus lines brokers had to work harder for all that premium. That’s according to Ben...

2018 Insurance Industry Meetings & Events Directory

Jan 8 2018 // CIWA Industry DaysJan 8-10 Hilton La Jolla Torrey PinesLa Jolla, Calif.California Insurance Wholesalers Association (CIWA)Contact: Thomas Shovlin, thomas@ciwa.netThe 19th Annual Windstorm Insurance ConferenceJan 15-19...

People

Jan 8 2018 // S.S. Nesbitt & Co. Inc. (SSN), a Southeastern insurance agency and division of EBSCO Industries, Inc. (EBSCO), has appointed Mike Roman as vice president of its property and casualty sales. Roman is joining senior vice...

N.Y. Finalizes Regulation to Protect Drivers from Unfair Auto Insurance Rates

Jan 8 2018 // The New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) has finalized a regulation that protects New York drivers from unfairly discriminatory auto insurance rates and has already reached agreements with two major insurers...

Zurich Shares Lessons from First Earn-and-Learn U.S. Apprenticeship Class

Jan 8 2018 // In early 2016, Zurich North America teamed up with William Rainey Harper College in Palatine, Ill., to offer an apprenticeship in insurance program and now its first group of employee-students have graduated with a job at...

The Fine Art of Underwriting Through Soft & Slightly Harder Market Cycles

Jan 3 2018 // Twenty or so years ago, a London market marine underwriter declared he was going golfing one afternoon because he had reached his annual capacity level. That was an underwriting model commonly used in the Lloyd’s and...

How Sex Abuse Culture Threatens Restaurant Industry and What It Can Do About It

Dec 21 2017 // That there’s abuse behind the scenes in restaurant isn’t news. Within the chef community, the news is that people are surprised to hear about it.The true scale of the issue has yet to be revealed, though...

N.Y. Finalizes Regulation to Protect Drivers from Unfair Auto Insurance Rates

Dec 19 2017 // The New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) has finalized a regulation that protects New York drivers from unfairly discriminatory auto insurance rates and has already reached agreements with two major insurers...

The Charity Issue: Photos of Giving

Dec 18 2017 // John Keane, president of The Keane Insurance Group, founded the Keane Charitable Group in 2010 after the earthquake in Haiti. Since then, The Keane Group has raised more than $1 million to build an orphanage, a well, a...

Declarations

Dec 18 2017 // Human Activity“The study’s findings suggest that the recent Fort Worth Basin earthquakes, which involve swarms of activity on several faults in the region, have been induced by human activity.” —...

Northern California Agency Owner Answers Christmas Wishes of Single Mothers in Need

Dec 18 2017 // Commercial Coverage Insurance Agency Owner Samantha Tradelius approaches running the nonprofit she started two years ago, The Sparkle Foundation, in the same manner she runs her insurance agency: it’s about taking...

Drone Easily Pierced New York ‘No-Fly’ Zone, Exposing Risk

Dec 15 2017 // A recreational drone operator whose device smashed into a U.S. Army helicopter in September flew undetected into a no-fly zone over New York set up to protect President Donald Trump and the United Nations.The National...