Risk & Insurance articles from April 2007

Risk & Insurance archives from April 2007

Show who's boss.
April 1, 2007... Look, U.S. insurance industry. I feel for you. Florida just passed a law that's one big thumbed nose at you. Other states are considering ramrodding you into writing coastal coverage at cheap rates. And U.S. congressmen want to repeal your...

State Farm out of Miss.(NEWS & NOTES)
April 1, 2007... State Farm Insurance Cos. announced it is suspending sales of new commercial and homeowner policies in Mississippi because of its business and legal environment. State Farm has more than 30 percent of the homeowners market in Mississippi,...

Insurers aim at climate.(NEWS & NOTES)
April 1, 2007... Swiss Reinsurance Co., Munich Reinsurance Co. and Allianz S.E. joined 100 other companies to endorse a statement on climate change from the Global Roundtable on Climate Change. The roundtable was formed in 2004 by experts from numerous...

More terror cover.(NEWS & NOTES)
April 1, 2007... Lexington Insurance Co., a member company of American International Group Inc., increased capacity for commercial domestic property terrorism cover. It will write up to $250 million, up from $100 million, available to commercial property owners...

Kyrill's results.(NEWS & NOTES)
April 1, 2007... XL Capital Ltd. estimated that its pretax net loss from European windstorm Kyrill could be in the range of $60 million to $75 million--most from its reinsurance segment. Kyrill packed hurricane-strength winds that wreaked widespread damage and...

Latest health reform.(NEWS & NOTES)
April 1, 2007... The Federation of American Hospitals, a group that represents about 20 percent of all U.S. hospitals, offered a health-care reform plan that would build on the employer-based benefits system. It would require all U.S. adults to have health...

Health costs sky-high.(NEWS & NOTES)
April 1, 2007... Spending on health services in the United States could increase to $4.1 trillion in the next decade, according to a report from the National Health Statistics Group, part of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In 2006, spending on...

N.Y. workers' comp plan.(NEWS & NOTES)
April 1, 2007... New York state announced a deal among Gov. Eliot Spitzer, business, labor and legislators to reform the state workers' comp system. Weekly benefits for injured workers are to be increased, while costs to employers are expected to drop by 10 to...

CAT-active legislators.(NEWS & NOTES)
April 1, 2007... According to the National Association of Mutual Insurance Cos., 10 U.S. states passed 17 CAT-related laws in 2006. In the previous year, three states had passed seven such measures. Overall, the number of passed general P/C laws was lower: 539...

Upcoming events.(Calendar)
April 1, 2007... APRIL 5 AIG Environmental AIG Environmental will host a webcast for brokers about its EAGLE product. EAGLE provides a tailored policy including primary casualty and value-added environmental liability coverage. For more...

Compensating for reforms: state workers' comp systems to ride the seesaw of reform in 2007.(UPFRONT: News, Updates and Other Emerging Strategies from Around the World)
April 1, 2007... Workers' compensation reforms appear possible in states where rhetoric, not action, had been the norm. On the flipside, experts predict a continued push from labor and industry groups in 2007 to undue reforms in other states. One such, not...

Preparing a workplace for pandemic: OSHA's newest recommendations categorize workplaces by four levels of risk.(UPFRONT: News, Updates and Other Emerging Strategies from Around the World)
April 1, 2007... With bird-flu outbreaks spreading to British turkey farms, now seems like the perfect time to release new workplace safety guidance for flu pandemic preparedness. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration obliged, releasing its...

Not vanishing into thin air: a modeling leader moving up in, not out of, the industry.(UPFRONT: News, Updates and Other Emerging Strategies from Around the World)
April 1, 2007... As of April 15, 2007, Karen Clark will step down as president and CEO of AIR Worldwide Inc., the Boston-based modeling vendor. She's not planning a long vacation. "A lot of people think I'm retiring or something, but that's actually not...

ERM for the DHS? Report suggests Homeland Security needs more risk management.(UPFRONT: News, Updates and Other Emerging Strategies from Around the World)
April 1, 2007... The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has not fully adopted risk management to help it identify, prioritize and fund national security risks, according to a recent report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office. The report,...

Report: safety culture lacking at BP: causes of refinery accident lesson for all.(UPFRONT: News, Updates and Other Emerging Strategies from Around the World)
April 1, 2007... BP PLC ignored its own safety guidelines, and senior managers did little to heed warning signs until it was too late, according to the report on the Texas City, Texas, explosion in 2005, which killed 15 people and injured 170. The report,...

A crystal-clear message: private broker credits its uncommon client-centric approach with growing its position in the commercial insurance sector.(BROKERS: People, Ideas and Trends shaping the Brokerage Community)(Company overview)
April 1, 2007... Every business desires growth, but chances are that, when plans for growth are executed, some of the company's character gets lost in the shuffle. Following a five-year run during which Frank Crystal & Co. tripled its revenues, its employees...

Hub to be acquired.(BROKER NEWS & NOTES)
April 1, 2007... Chicago-based insurance brokerage Hub International ltd, entered into an agreement to be acquired by international private equity group Apax Partners and Morgan Stanley Principal Investments. According to a statement released by Hub, the...

Aon restructuring.(BROKER NEWS & NOTES)
April 1, 2007... Aon/Albert G. Ruben, a 120-employee firm managing risks in the film and entertainment sector, has become part of Aon's Entertainment Group. George Walden has been named Aon/Albert G. Ruben's new CEO, succeeding Sam Cargill, who assumes the role...

Gallagher acquires.(BROKER NEWS & NOTES)
April 1, 2007... Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. completed its acquisition of Lowndes Lambert Group Canada Ltd. in February, and an acquisition of InterNational Insurance Group Ltd. in January. LLG is a Canadian property/casualty retail insurance broker specializing...

Beecher expands.(BROKER NEWS & NOTES)
April 1, 2007... Beecher Carlson has joined forces with Florida-based T.R. Jones & Co. and its affiliate Kraft Insurance Agency. The transaction expands Beecher Carlson's geographic presence in Florida with the addition of five offices and enhances its...

HRH revenues up.(BROKER NEWS & NOTES)(Financial report)
April 1, 2007... Hilb Regal & Hobbs Co.'s net income for 2006 was estimated at $87 million, a 54.8 percent increase over the previous year, the brokerage firm reported. Total revenues last year for HRH rose 5.5 percent to $710.8 million, with fees and...

Finances restated.(BROKER NEWS & NOTES)
April 1, 2007... In a March 1 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Aon Corp. said it plans to restate its financial results for 2003, 2004, 2005 and for the first three quarters of 2006 after a review of its options granting practices revealed...

New E&S broker.(BROKER NEWS & NOTES)
April 1, 2007... Camford National Insurance Brokers announced it has opened as a wholesale insurance brokerage serving property/casualty agents and brokers. The Lebanon, N.J.-based company will specialize in serving excess and surplus lines. The firm focuses on...

The pandemic in your plans.(WORKERS' COMP)
April 1, 2007... I'm a catastrophe alarmist with an ulterior motive. No, I'm not trying to extract a consultant contract. And in truth I see risk of flu pandemic to be very low and risk of a terrorist disaster as, well, miniscule. But if you plan for extreme...

Fla. governor's expensive trip.(ROGER ON RISK)
April 1, 2007... I've never taken LSD. In the years when I could have had access to the mind-altering drug, I was studying to be an accountant. "First you qualify, then there'll be time for acid," my parents might not have said, had they known about LSD. ...

Risk: a term ill-defined.(RISK MANAGEMENT)
April 1, 2007... What exactly does "risk" mean? It is a question that, in its simplicity, conceals a devilishly complex problem. There is no consensus definition. For reasons not wholly understood, most believe that there must be one. As a result, there is...

Stop outrageous awards.(THE LAW)
April 1, 2007... A recent United States Supreme Court ruling involving Philip Morris may have blown a chance to erode arbitrary state court punitive damages awards and created inevitable confusion for trial judges and juries. The history of the Supreme...

Our industry in black and white.(BROKERAGE)
April 1, 2007... In this space in February, in a column titled "Gender Gap Still Too Wide," I talked, among other things, about a New York Times article adorned with cameo pictures of all 43 presidents of the United States identified only as "white male." I...

Finding faults: if insurers were disillusioned with catastrophe models after Hurricane Katrina, just wait until the earthquake hits. How and why earthquake models fall short.(Cover story)
April 1, 2007... Today's forecast from the U.S. Geological Survey: 100 percent chance of an earthquake. Actually, thousands of them. Luckily for property owners and their insurers, chances are today's earthquakes will be so mild as to not even rattle a window...

The changing face of reinsurance relationships: the bonds among cedents, reinsurers and reinsurance brokers are changing as brokers become more like advisors and less like old-fashioned deal-makers.(SPECIAL REPORT: REINSURANCE BROKERS)
April 1, 2007... It's not enough to just be a reinsurance broker anymore. The head of one of the largest reinsurance brokerage operations said that, as long as a decade ago, if a large firm had 150 brokers, then it might have about another 20 experts...

Property.(REINSURANCE POWER BROKERS)
April 1, 2007... * David Cameron Executive VP Benfield Group Minneapolis * Scott Clark Executive VP Aon Re New York * David Duffy Managing Director Guy Carpenter New York * Thomas Johnson Managing Director Guy Carpenter Morristown, N.J. *...

Casualty.(REINSURANCE POWER BROKERS)
April 1, 2007... * John Aquino Executive VP Benfield Group Chicago * Michael Amatrudo Senior VP Aon Re Stamford, Conn. * James Bradshaw Executive VP Willis Re New York * Aaron Bueler Managing Director Guy Carpenter Seattle * Wade Gulbransen...

Retrocession.(REINSURANCE POWER BROKERS)
April 1, 2007... Retrocession * Steve Binet Executive VP Aon Re Stamford, Conn. * Bob Bisset Senior VP Benfield Group Bermuda * John Demeusy Senior VP Aon Re New York * John Edwards Leader, Retro Benfield Group London * Colin Kidde...

Facultative.(REINSURANCE POWER BROKERS)
April 1, 2007... * George Caricich Senior VP Guy Carpenter New York * Steven Giannone Managing Director Willis Re Chicago * John O'Reilly Principal Guy Carpenter New York * Bill Kasbeer CEO Aon Specialty Re Chicago * Joseph Vitale Senior VP...

Marine.(REINSURANCE POWER BROKERS)
April 1, 2007... * Ronald Collins Senior VP Benfield Group New York * Joseph Drucker Managing Director Guy Carpenter New York * Don Magee Marine Leader Benfield Group London * Leo McGrath Executive VP Willis Re New York * Graeme Moore CEO,...

Professional liability.(REINSURANCE POWER BROKERS)
April 1, 2007... Professional Liability * Nicholas Durant Managing Director Guy Carpenter Philadelphia * Wayne de Nazarie Executive VP Aon Re Chicago * Daniel Dolan Executive VP Aon Re Stamford, Conn. * James Kent Executive VP Willis Re Bermuda...

Rigging rigs for safety: trucking is still reeling from federal regulation changes in 2003 and 2005, a process one risk manager called a "nightmare." The government is poised to overhaul fleet technology next.(INLAND MARINE)(Company overview)
April 1, 2007... Summary * Revisions to hours-of-service rules changed the way truckers operated, not once but twice--in 2003 and 2005. * Truckers and their brokers feared an increase in hours-of-service violations would affect cover and pricing,...

Dealing with employees at the (roulette) wheel: companies are sometimes liable if an employee has an accident in a personal or company vehicle, but a sound risk management strategy can steer employers clear of the million-dollar verdicts of negligent-entrustment lawsuits.(COMMERCIAL AUTO/FLEET)(Company overview)
April 1, 2007... "Negligent entrustment"--now those are two words that can (and should) strike fear into a risk manager's heart. Why? Because her company could be liable for punitive damages if an employee has a collision while driving for work purposes in...

Receiving reform: the way insolvencies are done just doesn't work in today's complex insurance universe. While the "how" of reform can be debated, the "why" is all too apparent.(INSOLVENCIES)
April 1, 2007... The time has passed to put a few Band-Aids on the property/casualty insurance insolvency system. It's time to fix this relic that is inefficient, expensive, slow and unfair. Property/casualty insurers, risk managers and insurance buyers deserve...

Slamming the brakes on drug spending: specialty drug spending is up, way up, and specialty benefits managers are ideally suited to help companies manage the new challenge of keeping costs in check.(HEALTH CARE)
April 1, 2007... Cholesterol-reducing drugs have, in the past, been the largest driver of overall drug spending growth, given that they treat an extremely widespread condition, but specialty drugs--relatively expensive medications that treat much rarer diseases...

An architecture to deliver the missing link: a service-oriented architecture provides a roadmap to meeting a corporation's tactical and strategic business objectives, as it links the past with the future.(TECHNOLOGY)
April 1, 2007... Success in today's dynamic insurance market hinges on a carrier's ability to move quickly and adeptly in bringing innovative products and services to market. Carriers are being pushed--by economies and by customers--to explore new business...

Cranking up your mental wheels: how to protect your fleet from risk through business intelligence. Here's the good news: you're not as beholden to insurance carrier data as you think.(INDUSTRY RISK REPORT: TRUCKING)
April 1, 2007... Many of the current risk management strategies employed in the commercial transportation industry are either directly derived from the insurance industry, or are hybrids developed through industry consultation. The type of risk management...

Industry risk report: trucking.
April 1, 2007... INDUSTRY RISK REPORT TRUCKING The trucking industry might be made up of mostly middle-market companies, but being smaller does not mean these companies are less attractive risks. Trucking firms steer their major exposures, such as...

Directory: third-party administrators.(Directory)
April 1, 2007... DIRECTORY THIRD-PARTY ADMINISTRATORS Below are paid listings of third-party administrators (TPAs) according to the types of claims they handle: health care; disability; workers' comp; managed care automation; software automation;...

Powerful praise.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
April 1, 2007... Dear Editor, Your Power Brokers feature (Risk & Insurance[R], Feb. 2007) is outstanding and in my opinion illustrates truly innovative journalism for our field. The distribution side of our business is not always perceived in the best of lights...

In memory of.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Obituary)(Letter to the editor)
April 1, 2007... Dear Editor, A while ago I found myself up late, restless and bored. I then took it upon myself to "Google" my late father's name, Eugene F. Wolters. This late-hour introduction comes after finding your footnote of an article posting Gene's...

Great minds think alike.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
April 1, 2007... Dear Editor, I enjoyed reading Beaumont Vance's column in the recent e-version of Risk & Insurance[R] ("The Deception of Risk Perception," in the Feb. 2007 issue, p. 18). I got a small chuckle, because the Dec. 4, 2006, issue of Time that...

Move on up.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
April 1, 2007... Dear Editor, Thank you for printing Tom Slattery's article "Gender Gap Still Too Wide" (Risk & Insurance[R], Feb. 2007, p. 19). That was brave of you. It always cheers me to see men speaking to this issue since they are rarely perceived as...

American International Group Inc.(EXECUTIVE MOVES)
April 1, 2007... American International Group Inc. has appointed its first chief diversity officer, TERRI D. AUSTIN. In this new position based in New York, Austin will be responsible for expanding and implementing AIG's diversity initiatives in its work force,...

Jimcor Agencies.(EXECUTIVE MOVES)
April 1, 2007... Jimcor Agencies, an excess and surplus lines wholesaler, has appointed STEVEN C. MANSFIELD senior underwriter in its Marlton, N.J., office.

Strategic Risk Solutions.(EXECUTIVE MOVES)
April 1, 2007... Strategic Risk Solutions, a provider of captive management and consulting services, has hired PATRICK POLLARD as director-domestic operations based in its Burlington, Vt., office. Prior to joining SRS, Pollard was with Arkwright Mutual...

Pharmaceutical Strategies Group.(EXECUTIVE MOVES)
April 1, 2007... Pharmaceutical Strategies Group, a pharmacy-benefits consultancy, announced the addition of five new employees. JOHN HINES will serve as director, tools and client automation, based in Scottsdale, Ariz. MARYBETH OCHOA is the new manager of...

CRM Holdings Ltd.(EXECUTIVE MOVES)
April 1, 2007... CRM Holdings Ltd. has announced top-level management changes following the completion of its acquisition of Majestic Insurance Co. DANIEL G. HICKEY JR. transitioned from co-CEO to CEO, while remaining chairman of the board. ROBERT V. POLANSKY,...

Guy Carpenter & Co. LLC announced the appointment of AJAY JUNNARKAR as chief financial officer.(EXECUTIVE MOVES)
April 1, 2007... Guy Carpenter & Co. LLC announced the appointment of AJAY JUNNARKAR as chief financial officer. He will lead the firm's finance and corporate services departments, and will help to shape the reinsurance intermediary's financial strategies and...

Guy Carpenter also announced that DAVID PRIEBE has been named head of global specialty operations.(EXECUTIVE MOVES)
April 1, 2007... Guy Carpenter also announced that DAVID PRIEBE has been named head of global specialty operations. Based in New York, he will oversee the firm's 16 specialty practices, as well as the Instrat modeling and actuarial unit and the business...

Continental Europe.(EXECUTIVE MOVES)
April 1, 2007... MICHAEL HANDLER has been appointed nonexecutive chairman for Continental Europe. He previously was regional manager of Guy Carpenter's operations in Continental Europe. The firm also announced that KEVIN GRIFFITHS will replace Marcell as...

EPL.(INSURANCE)
April 1, 2007... The Chubb Group of Insurance Cos. released an early claims reporting incentive endorsement for its employment practices liability policies. The optional endorsement offers a 10 percent deductible reduction (up to $50,000) for customers who...

Weather derivatives.(INSURANCE)
April 1, 2007... The Chicago Mercantile Exchange expanded its weather derivatives product line with CME-Carvill Hurricane Index futures and options on futures contracts. The indexes will be calculated by Carvill, an independent reinsurance intermediary that...

Identity fraud.(INSURANCE)
April 1, 2007... Travelers Select Accounts has added identity fraud expense reimbursement coverage to its small commercial policies. The coverage is meant to help the principals of small businesses with the lost time and out-of-pocket expenses incurred while...

Small Business.(INSURANCE)
April 1, 2007... AIG Small Business, a division of the property/casualty insurance companies of American International Group Inc., released The AIG Edge. This compilation of insurance and noninsurance services, designed for small-business owners, features links...

E-mail security.(TECHNOLOGY)
April 1, 2007... RPost US Inc., an outbound messaging management service provider, offers RPost Registered E-Mail messages to the brokerage community. RPost can act as the platform for business-critical outbound e-mail communications. RPost Registered E-Mail...

Underwriting.(TECHNOLOGY)
April 1, 2007... Group 1 Software Inc. has introduced an underwriting automation solution for property/casualty insurers. The software could enable carriers to automate their manual underwriting processes. The underwriting automation solution uses real-time...

Modeling.(TECHNOLOGY)
April 1, 2007... Risk Management Solutions Inc., the Newark, Calif.-based modeling vendor, has released a probabilistic model to assess influenza pandemic risk. Called the RMS Infectious Disease Model, the technology includes nearly 2,000 potential pandemic...

Claims adjusting.(EDUCATION)
April 1, 2007... York Claims Service, a subsidiary of York Insurance Services Group Inc., is now approved to be a claims adjusting educator in four states: Florida, New Jersey, California and Texas. This allows York's product management team to teach...

Brokerage oligarchs: may they reign forever: four brokers control the lion's share of the commercial insurance distribution market. Let's keep it that way.(POINT)
April 1, 2007... Oh, how buyers ought to love their insurance brokerage oligarchs. For now land in the future, may this small, elite group of brokers reign forever, whether they're known as Marsh, Aon, Willis and Gallagher, or even perhaps one of their...

Brokerage Oligarchs: smash them now: when just four companies control 70 percent of the market, buyers are in big trouble.(COUNTERPOINT)
April 1, 2007... In the commercial insurance brokerage world, just four companies control 70 percent of the market. By any definition, that's an oligarchy. And oligarchies are bad news for commercial insurance buyers. Not just sometimes. All the time. Four...

Turning the tables.
April 15, 2007... Here's your chance if you're going to be at the annual Risk & Insurance Management Society conference in New Orleans from April 29 though May 3. Tell the editor what you really think. Now it's time to turn the table on me and three of my...

Unum sells subsidiary.(NEWS & NOTES)
April 15, 2007... Unum Group has completed the sale of its subsidiary, Genex Services Inc., a workers' compensation and medical cost-containment services provider, to Trident IV LP, a fund managed by Stone Point Capital LLC, a global private equity firm based in...

CICA presents awards.(NEWS & NOTES)
April 15, 2007... The Captive Insurance Companies Association has awarded Leonard D. Crouse, deputy commissioner for captive insurance for the state of Vermont, the 2007 CICA Distinguished Service Award, recognizing significant contributions to advancing the...

U.S. Risk expands.(NEWS & NOTES)
April 15, 2007... U.S. Risk Insurance Group Inc., a Dallas-based specialty lines underwriting manager and wholesale broker, has expanded its California operations by acquiring E.M. Morrow Insurance General Agency Inc. in Oakland, Calif. Having served the...

'06 Cat losses low.(NEWS & NOTES)
April 15, 2007... A study from Swiss Re confirms that the lowest property/casualty insurers' catastrophe losses in 19 years were recorded for 2006. At $15.9 billion, the losses represent one-third of the $48 billion in economic losses covered by insurance. Last...

Report released.(NEWS & NOTES)
April 15, 2007... The National Association of Insurance Commissioners released its 2006 Annual Report "Mapping Milestones," a comprehensive summary of the NAIC's progress during the past year. The report includes the NAIC's audited financial statements, as well...

L.A.'s insurer woes.(NEWS & NOTES)
April 15, 2007... Louisiana officials attempted to reassure ratings agencies after a scandal at Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. As of the publication date, the state-run insurer of last resort could not produce financial data or determine costs of...

Green energy targeted.(NEWS & NOTES)
April 15, 2007... A group of EU country ministers in March announced plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions 30 percent by 2020, compared to 1990 levels. The EU adopted a comprehensive energy action plan that emphasizes the development of alternative energy...

Upcoming events.(Calendar)
April 15, 2007... APRIL 4.29-5.3 RIMS Conference The Risk and Insurance Management Society Inc. will be host to thousands of risk managers, insurance professionals, brokers, insurers and executives at its 2007 RIMS Annual Conference and Exhibition....

The futures of flu: an economist and an infectious disease doc launch futures market for flu.(UPFRONT: News, Updates and Other Emerging Strategies from Around the World)
April 15, 2007... Business owners and public-health experts might have the tool they have been waiting for to help them gauge the likelihood of an influenza pandemic. Called the Avian Flu Market, the tool is a prediction futures market that taps into the...

Study: ERM alive and well at largest carriers: when it comes to how the practice is measured and who's in charge, results differ.(UPFRONT: News, Updates and Other Emerging Strategies from Around the World)
April 15, 2007... Yes, it's true. Insurance companies care about enterprise risk management, the practice of assessing the totality of risks facing a company. At least they say they do, according to a recent study. But they differ on how to implement the...

A pool in paradise: a new regional CAT risk pool could prove an innovative way to prefund disaster.(UPFRONT: News, Updates and Other Emerging Strategies from Around the World)
April 15, 2007... A catastrophe risk pool in the Caribbean is the world's first regional disaster insurance vehicle. Called the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility, it could set precedents for how the world's poorer nations cope with CAT exposure. ...

Insurance failures decline for fourth straight year: record profits, a mild hurricane season and lower levels of net loss deficiencies led to fewer bankruptcies in 2006.(UPFRONT: News, Updates and Other Emerging Strategies from Around the World)(Financial report)
April 15, 2007... Good news for risk managers with policies covering millions of dollars' worth of corporate assets: Fewer insurance companies went belly up last year. There were losers, of course, as there always are: Atlantic Preferred Insurance Co.,...

Employees paying for disability: industries shifting toward employee-funded LTD plans.(UPFRONT: News, Updates and Other Emerging Strategies from Around the World)
April 15, 2007... Shared-funding or employee-paid benefits plans offer employers in certain industries a way to offset their health-care costs while attracting new talent--an important consideration with a labor shortage on the horizon. "Benefits are...

Worth repeating.(UPFRONT: News, Updates and Other Emerging Strategies from Around the World)
April 15, 2007... "Forty-seven percent of employers have initiated or are considering some form of behavioral risk management." Marcia Carruthers, CEO, DMEC "Most employers, believe it or not, don't even recognize they have a problem." Dan Lyons,...

When Homeland Security calls: Marsh team secures coverage for a Michigan county within days of Iraqi elections.(BROKERS: People, Ideas and Trends shaping the Brokerage Community)
April 15, 2007... What do you do when the Department of Homeland Security calls with a "request" for you to host the voting for the Iraqi out-of-country elections? You spring into action, of course, because you only have a few hours to secure the liability...

Beecher Carlson.(BROKER MOVES)
April 15, 2007... Beecher Carlson appointed SHARON D. BRAINARD as senior vice president. Prior to joining Beecher, Brainard was a senior casualty broker for Aon in the Southeast. Beecher Carlson also recently appointed IDA HAVENS as a senior vice president in...

Harvey Insurance Group Brokers.(BROKER MOVES)
April 15, 2007... Mid-Atlantic independent insurance broker Harvey Insurance Group named GEORGE SCHERBAK as executive sales advisor. He was most recently president and CEO of Saucon Mutual Insurance Co. in Bethlehem, Pa.