The New York Insurance Association (NYIA) advises that from 2014 to 2015 motorcycle thefts in New York increased by 23 percent. According to a report from the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB), motorcycle thefts nationwide increased by six percent during the same time period, rising for the first time in ten years. New York State […]
Love the name: Gorilla Safety. Now comes an innovative new provider of software that fully automates all aspects of fleet and safety management, through its new mobile application and web-based dashboard. Gorilla Safety’s revolutionary mobile app is the first and only cloud-based solution that integrates capabilities necessary for managing short- and long-haul vehicle fleets of […]
We are surrounded by it. Trending, polling and inference taken from it. If a poll says that x number of New Yorkers favor unlimited abortion rights, legal marijuana, assisted suicide and all the rest of the so-called Millenials’ agenda, it is treated as evidence and provides an assumed mandate to some legislators and some social […]
“The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones.” Julius Caesar, Shakespeare Shakespeare’s quote applies to the insurance industry in the public and the media’s eyes all too often. So I thought that a few recent items point to “credit deserved” by insurance people. Leonard Scioscia has been […]
In 1984, a small band of insurance communications professionals gathered in Phoenix for what we called the Insurance Communications Summit. I was a panelist, along with the likes of Sam Friedman, George Nordhaus, Ron Vinson and many others who, for the first time, were coming to the understanding that we actually had a shared mission […]
In Governor Cuomo’s State of the State Address and Executive Budget, the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of New York (IIABNY) found “there were no clear surprises in his proposed spending plan for 2016-2017” and noted that several insurance-related issues found their way into the rather lengthy document, notably a proposal that would expand the use […]
At the 20th annual Property/Casualty (P/C) Insurance Joint Industry Forum, held last week at the Waldorf, insurance leaders assured attendees that they have adapted successfully to the evolving risks brought about by dramatic technological changes. The Forum’s Experts Panel: A View from the Outside Looking In, was chaired by Charles M. Chamness, president & […]
As a new year’s gift to readers, note our redesign – not radical, but quite clean and easy to read. Compliments to Gina Balog for executing this. Our web presence has become greatly enhanced as well, for which we thank Claudia Palmira and her team. We have had a good run and will be adding […]
The NAIC reports that 25% of the industry will retire by 2018. That’s why so many are doing double duty in the office and on the volunteer scene. LICONY Timothy A. Walsh succeeds David Walsh as Chairman of the Board of Directors for 2016. Is it a genetic thing? No, the two men are unrelated. […]
IFNY Free Enterprise Award honoree Don Kramer, easily one of the industry’s top exponents, recalled a bit of his history in the First National City Bank building that now houses Cipriani. He recalled the teller window just to the left of what is now the stage and the lines there, but most importantly, he traced […]
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