Pamela J. Newman graced our cover last issue as Insurance Advocate’s 2015 Insurance Professional of the Year and proceeded to grace the victory party as well with her selfless, elegant manner – thanking her staff and according responsibility for her success to them generously. The Newman Team at Aon has a service formula worth imitating […]
As we go to press, Zurich Insurance released its fifth annual Advisen Cyber Survey of U.S. risk managers looking at trends in information security and cyber liability. Zurich presented the key findings, analysis and conclusions during a presentation at the Advisen Cyber Risk Insights Conference in New York on October 20th. The results reflect responses […]
The Financial Services Round Table notes that arbitration provides an efficient way for customers to resolve disputes with financial companies. A proposed new rule by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) could push consumers’ arbitration of dispute resolution options back decades. Arbitration awards customers relief more quickly than lawsuits, which must make their way through […]
In a season of relentless speculation on how voters view the nearly 20 total candidates vying for 2016 ballots, U.S. voter motivation has taken on all the trappings of consumer styled surveying, possibly because a hero of the supermarket magazine rack is in the race. While some believe – and campaign heavily – in libertarian […]
What a great attention getting headline. Just use his name and, bingo, you get attention. I anticipate some brave entrepreneur seeking to franchise Trump Insurance or Trump Brokerage. Competitors might include Kardashian Risk Management or Jenner Reciprocal Underwriting – figure that out. The presidential campaign has become a Branding Battle. Agents and brokers fight that […]
Every so often, we get it right. Among the many e-mails received here following my piece in this space on June 29th, there were several that expressed pleasure at our critique of Sen. Warren’s presumptuous advice to Gov. Cuomo on his selection of the next DFS chief. She’d like it if the Governor were to […]
Fast on the heels of the announcement that Anthony Albanese will fill the role of Acting Supt. of the DFS to succeed Benjamin Lawsky comes a letter to the Governor from Elizabeth Warren calling upon him to find and name a prosecutorial czar to shake up the financial services sector – largely the banks – […]
Following our cover story in early May in which we presented – on the cover – the language proposed in a bill that would require agents and brokers to recite a rather ridiculous “disclosure,” we have had a waterfall of response. Here is the language we quoted that agents and brokers would be required to […]
As our healthcare system is “transformed,” fixing greater focus on primary care, care coordination, and population health, residents across the state need more primary care providers, according to an eye-opening report from the Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS). Doctor Shortage Imperils Primary Care Expansion confirms that New York’s physician shortage continues and is […]
Too bad that the news of Ben Lawsky’s departure from the NYDFS was greeted in the major papers almost universally with a recounting of his hard-hitting penalties and pun- ishments of bankers. It has made him appear a bit of an over-reacher in the prosecution of errant bank operatives, when in fact he meted out […]
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