Contractors/Subcontractors; Employment Practices Liability Insurance; 2007 Meetings & Conventions Directory

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8 Drive Insurance from Progressive lowers Colo. auto rates
Tort system helping to reduce costs 8 Gov.-elects appoint insurance...
Features
Oregon Archdiocese reorganization plan calls for $75 million settlement
Settling nearly 170 claims of priest sex abuse would cost the Roman...
Features
California workers’ comp reforms working
The Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California has...
Features
New fire science could overturn arson convictions across the nation
The clues were everywhere. A young woman lay dead in a burned church...
Features

People Zurich Financial Services Group appointed Maine Insurance...
Fraud Roundup
Fraud Roundup
Calif. State Fund receives $3 million-plus San Diego Superior Court...
Features
Colorado, Idaho Gov.-elects appoint insurance department heads
Colorado's Gov.-elect Bill Ritter announced he is appointing Manitou...
News Currents
News Currents
Oregon promotes best practices with IMSA membership The Oregon...
New Markets
New Markets
GL for Builders, Contractors, Artisans Nuts & Bolts: Golden Insurance...
Features
CONTRACTORS AND SUBCONTRACTORS
N18 Building the case for contractors ... and underwriters 10 Wintery...
News Currents
News Currents
Late storm binge has Western states singing holiday claims blues...
Features
Enron’s legacies and directors’ and officers’ risk
Shortly after former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling's Oct. 23, 2006,...
Features
Declarations
The Earth isn't flat "It's not that they're bad investigators or...
Closing Quote
Do your construction clients know what they’re getting?
If you have construction clients, you may know there are several...
Business Moves
Business Moves
Hub, Coburn Hub International Ltd. announced plans to acquire...
News Currents
News Currents
Drive Insurance from Progressive lowers auto rates in Colorado The...
Features
In Memoriam: Robert Hoye dies
Robert M. Hoye, formerly of Arrowhead General Insurance Agency, died...
Features
Reinsurance rates falling or flat, Willis reports
Reinsurance rates for the property/casualty industry are falling or...
Editor's Note
Editor’s Note: Future predictions
People ring in the New Year with all sorts of traditions. New Yorkers...
Editor's Note
Future predictions
People ring in the New Year with all sorts of traditions. New Yorkers...
Currents
Late storm binge has Western states singing holiday claims blues
While the nation was mostly natural disaster-free in 2006, the West...
People & Places
People and Places
Zurich Financial Services Group appointed Maine Insurance...
Currents
Oregon Archdiocese reorganization plan calls for $75 million settlement
Settling nearly 170 claims of priest sex abuse would cost the Roman...
Currents
Oregon promotes best practices with IMSA membership
The Oregon Insurance Division is recognizing the Insurance...
Features
New fire science could overturn arson convictions across the nation
The clues were everywhere. A young woman lay dead in a burned church...
Currents
Arson convictions now being questioned
A handful of arson convictions that relied largely on expert...
New Markets
New Markets
GL for Builders, Contractors, Artisans Nuts & Bolts: Golden Insurance...
Currents
Enron’s legacies and directors’ and officers’ risk
Shortly after former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling's Oct. 23, 2006,...
Fraud Roundup
Fraud Roundup
Calif. State Fund receives $3 million-plus San Diego Superior Court...
Closing Quote
Do your construction clients know what they’re getting?
If you have construction clients, you may know there are several...
Currents
California workers’ comp reforms working
The Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California has...
Currents
Colorado, Idaho Gov.-elects appoint insurance department heads
Colorado's Gov.-elect Bill Ritter announced he is appointing Manitou...
Currents
Drive Insurance from Progressive lowers auto rates in Colorado
The Drive Group of Progressive Insurance Companies is lowering auto...
Declarations
Declarations
The Earth isn't flat "It's not that they're bad investigators or...
Currents
In Memoriam: Robert Hoye dies
Robert M. Hoye, formerly of Arrowhead General Insurance Agency, died...
Currents
Reinsurance rates falling or flat, Willis reports
Reinsurance rates for the property/casualty industry are falling or...
Features
Making the case for small/mid-size business EPLI
A client's financial well-being -- and an agent's own E&O -- dictate...
Features
Attributes of an excellent and lasting EPLI program
In this soft market, opportunities are once again strong for...
Cover Story
Blueprint for Contractors Liability: Building the case for contractors … and underwriters
For a contractor -- and his insurance agent -- surveying the general...
Currents
AJG resolves federal class action case
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has agreed to resolve all claims in the...
Currents
Chubb ends contingent commissions
The Chubb Corp. entered into a settlement agreement with the...
Currents
N.Y., Conn., Ill. AGs bring another suit, this time against Acordia
The attorneys general of Connecticut, Illinois and New York continued...
Features
Subcontractor default insurance
Performance bonds or SDI: how they work and what's the difference The...
Features
Contractors not buying into professional liability
Ames & Gough survey finds as many as 50% of contractors not covered...
Minding Your Business
When all else fails, do something different
An old "Seinfeld" episode portends George Costanza fed up with his...
Currents
BOPping in on employment practices liability insurance
It's the ogre hiding under the bridge. And a hungry ogre at that. The...
Currents
Drunk driving death rates decline in 23 states
Drunken-driving deaths declined slightly across the nation in 2005,...
Currents
13 states file briefs against credit scoring
Delaware Commissioner of Insurance Matt Denn has taken arguments...
Currents
Despite Katrina lessons, Congress keeps extending flood insurance
The federal flood insurance program may be going broke after...
Currents
Absence of hurricane losses proves beneficial to insurers’ bottomline
P/C industry posts $24.4 billion net gain on underwriting in first...