NEW YORK, NY — UJA-Federation of New York will honor Dominic Casserley, president of Willis Towers Watson, Charles H. Dangelo, president and CEO of Starr Indemnity and Liability, and Richard Hershman, senior advisor at FTI Consulting, Inc., at its General Insurance Annual Dinner on Tuesday, May 31, 2016, at Grand Hyatt New York in Manhattan. […]
For decades, I worked with a local alarm company that knew my home alarm system inside and out. Early this year, I received a letter from a different alarm company based in Wichita, Kansas, informing me that it had taken over my local vendor and if I had any questions or issues, I could […]
Anonymous survey gives voice to agents who rate their companies on performance items GLENMONT, N.Y.—The Professional Insurance Agents of Connecticut, New Hampshire, New Jersey and New York State launched their Company Performance Surveys today. Each survey, available through June 24, 2016, gauges insurance producers’ views of the companies they represent in their respective states. Independent […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers (IIABA or the Big “I”) has awarded Bill Wilson, CPCU, ARM, AIM, AAM, with the Jeff Yates Lifetime Achievement Award, the highest honor the association bestows on a non-agent, for a lifetime of work in the independent agency system. Wilson is Big “I” associate vice president […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers (IIABA or the Big “I”) has awarded Tom Minkler, CIC, with the Woodworth Memorial Award, the highest honor the association bestows on one of its members, during the annual Big “I” Legislative Conference. Minkler is president of the Clark-Mortenson Agency in Keene, New Hampshire, and former […]
NEW YORK, April 21, 2016 – The Insurance Digital Revolution (IDR) announced its first sponsors, including Gold Level Sponsors: Applied Systems, Nationwide Insurance, and Vertafore; and Silver Level Sponsors, The Cincinnati Insurance Companies and NetVU. IDR is an industry campaign, organized by ACT, AUGIE and PIA, to drive technology adoption to better serve the insurance […]
New York, NY − IIS has announced the formation of the Insurance Development Forum (IDF), a collaboration between the United Nations, the World Bank Group and the insurance industry. The IDF aims to incorporate insurance industry risk measurement expertise into existing governmental disaster risk reduction and resilience frameworks and to build out a more sustainable […]
An Insured Can Only Kill a Child Once When a person is injured or killed as the result of the negligence of another, an insurer is obligated to defend and indemnify its insured up to the limits of liability of the insurance policy. Almost every liability insurance policy contains a per-occurrence limit of liability and […]
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Zika is, like Ebola, a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. Now the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has stated that it is “clear” that the Zika virus causes a serious birth defect, microcephaly (small head). CDC publishes a scary interactive map of cases […]
Oates v New York City Transit Authority A pedestrian was found crushed to death near a bus stop. Nobody saw or heard anything: not the bus driver, not the passengers, not anyone on the street. But the pedestrian’s estate sued the Transit Authority, claiming that the bus ran over her. A Bronx jury found the […]
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