By Sue C. Quimby, CPCU, AU, CIC, CPIW, DAE – Assistant Vice President/Media Editor Increasing efficiency and safety should be key components of any business plan. Ergonomics, the science of fitting the job to the worker, helps lessen muscle fatigue, increases productivity and reduces the number and severity of work-related injuries. While most often associated […]
The New York Insurance Association’s recent New York Regulatory Symposium in Albany underlined important property and casualty issues with representatives from the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS). In attendance from DFS were Laura Evangelista, Executive Deputy Superintendent, Insurance Division; Marshal Bozzo, Assistant Deputy Superintendent, Property Bureau; Gerald Scattaglia, Assistant Chief Insurance Examiner, […]
A Personal Tribute As David Louie e-mailed the news, I thought to myself “please, not another heartbreaking obituary, please…and certainly not one with the name Emilio Miret in the title.” These successive months of grave losses from the “golden age” of the independent agent, as many friends have termed it, have set off a sense […]
By Jess Dantice, CEO, Zenjuries Funny how things change, isn’t it? One day you’re making sure your horses have newly shod hoofs for the two-day carriage ride to the neighboring town, and the next you’re online bidding for a chance to become the first civilian to ride a rocket ship around the moon and back. Today’s […]
Statute Makes Individual Adjuster Liable for Tort of Bad Faith The state of Washington, in an attempt to protect consumers, has acted in a way to drive insurers and their employed adjusters out of the state. This case makes it financially dangerous to be an insurance adjuster in Washington state. I have railed against the […]
Williams v New York City Tr. Auth. Plaintiff alleged that he slipped on a greasy substance on the stairs of a subway entrance. Three years into the suit, the Transit Authority moved for summary judgment and included an affidavit from an employee who cleaned those stairs every morning. Plaintiff argued that he needed more discovery […]
GLENMONT, N.Y.—Jamie A. Ferris, AAI, CIC, CPIA, of Lansing, N.Y., was elected president of the Professional Insurance Agents of New York, at a meeting of the association’s board of directors today, at PIANY Headquarters in Glenmont, N.Y. Ferris is president of P.W. Wood & Son Inc., in Ithaca, N.Y. An active member of PIANY, Ferris […]
Our popular columnist, Barry Zalma, has just put pen to paper and has produced claims books that are worth the money – really. His premise is that it is the insurance claims person – the adjuster – who works to keep the promises made by the insurance policy. The adjuster cannot, however, help the insurer […]
There’s an abundance of quotes about the inevitability of change; against resisting change; and most appropriately about the value of change. The place I’ve heard most of them are at PIA. The organization is always at the forefront of our industry, and the visionaries who have led the organization call repeatedly for agents to be […]
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