December 5, 2005
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2005 Program Directory, Vol. II

In this Issue

• Features
  By Jack Faris
  Small Business Ain't 'Bean Bag' American small- business owners...
• Features
  Roundabouts Turning Intersections into Circular Drives
  Backed up at an intersection? Wary of those tough left-hand turns...
• Features
  
  How Program Managers Can Avoid the 'Courthouse Blues' A little old...
• News Briefs
  News Briefs
  New Online License Service Available for Wash. Agents and Brokers...
• Features
  Corporate Litigation Costs More than Winning, Study Says
  Litigation has become the great equalizer of the modern corporation....
• Features
  Agent-Carrier Partnerships Need Goal Clarity and Exit Strategy, Not Love
  The carrier executive tried to pin down agents on what they wanted...
• Features
  FAIA: Employment Crisis Threatens Agencies
  An impending employment crisis is threatening independent insurance...
• Editor's Note
  Editor’s Note: Preparing for Worse
  Florida has survived eight hurricanes in 15 months, but more...
• Features
  Words Mean a Lot When Administrators and Carriers Write Marriage Vows
  Program managers urged to protect themselves when negotiating carrier...
• Features
  Major Insurers, Non-Profits Launch Community-based Healthcare Initiative Impact
  Impact Community Capital LLC, a consortium of major insurance...
• Fraud Roundup
  San Diego Contractor Ordered to Pay $37,669 in Restitution to State Fund
  A San Diego County Superior Court has sentenced Valley Center,...
• Features
  Your New Employee is about to Start, Now What?
  Editor's note: This is the second article in a series offering best...
• Business Moves
  Business Moves
  Montana Auditor Adds Two Companies in Captive Insurance Market...
• Features
  Whitfield: Legislation Might Be Needed To Resolve Jockey Issues
  Racetrack executives appeared before a House panel recently, arguing...
• Features
  
  The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research, Austin,...
• Features
  Agents Learn About Potential Policy Glitches, Coverage Fixes
  Are you and your customers aware of potential policy "glitches" in...
• Features
  The Four C’s of Risk Management for Oil and Gas Operator – Managing Contracts
  Editor's note: This is the second article in a series on risk...
• Features
  Insurance Commissioners Announce Framework for National Cat Program
  Insurance regulators from California, Florida, Illinois and New York,...
• Features
  Companies May Not Be Protected Against Personal Privacy Breaches
  As more companies outsource the processing of sensitive personal...
• New Markets
  New Markets
  Non-Franchised Auto Dealers Nuts & Bolts: DMI Insurance Services Inc....
• Features
  Climate Model Predicts Dramatic Changes in Next 100 Years
  The most comprehensive climate model of the continental United States...
• Features
  Los Angeles All Industry Day Highlights Education, Emerging Trends
  Issues including low cost auto insurance, the changing environment of...
• Features
  Executive Life Judge Confirms Some $900M in Total Verdicts, Settlements
  California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has praised a Los...
• Features
  States Urged to Prepare for Catastrophes by Enforcing Smarter Land Use
  The country needs to better consider where and how it builds if it...
• Features
  Tips to Fast Forward Your Career: Coaching Versus Mentoring
  Many people in business today are looking to improve their skills,...
• Features
  Regulation of Surplus Lines
  Montana House Bill 631 (Signed into law on April 8, 2005) Regulation:...
• Features
  Smaller and Regional Programs: Proven Exercises
  Here are a few smaller and regional programs that are meeting...
• Features
  Ease of Doing Business Survey Sets Benchmark for Carriers to Follow
  Insurer Performance Ranks Well on Average, But Many Could Improve on...
• Features
  National Newsbriefs
  Greenberg Will Not Face Criminal Charges: Additional civil charges...
• Features
  Players Must Understand Buyer Demand, Agency Supply to Get in the Game
  Players Must Understand Buyer Demand, Agency Supply to Get in the...
• Features
  Swiss Re to Acquire GE Insurance Solutions for $6.8 Billion
  In retrospect, the name GE Insurance Solutions (principal operating...
• Features
  When to Create an Agency Marketing Department
  Agencies that establish an effective centralized marketing department...
• Cover Story
  Building Program Muscle
  Smaller, Regional and Start-Up Programs Sweat It Out Just like Arnold...
• Features
  Industry Group Sees Sarbanes-Oxley as an Example of Hyper-Vigilance
  The extension of Sarbanes-Oxley to non-public insurance companies is...
• Editor's Note
  Preparing for Worse
  Florida has survived eight hurricanes in 15 months, but more...
• Features
  Fixing Workers’ Comp
  Louisiana officials anticipate changes in workers' comp as Hurricane...
• Features
  Insurance Commissioners Announce Framework for National Cat Program
  Insurance regulators from California, Florida, Illinois and New York,...
• Features
  La. Legislature Approves Building Code
  The Louisiana Senate has granted final legislative passage to a...
• Features
  States Urged to Prepare for Catastrophes by Enforcing Smarter Land Use
  The country needs to better consider where and how it builds if it...
• Features
  Corporate Litigation Costs More than Winning, Study Says
  Litigation has become the great equalizer of the modern corporation....
• Features
  Eight Key Litigation Trends
  Following are key findings in the 2005 Fulbright and Jaworski 2005...
• Features
  Your New Employee is about to Start, Now What?
  Editor's note: This is the second article in a series offering best...
• Features
  The Four C’s of Risk Management for Oil and Gas Operator – Managing Contracts
  Editor's note: This is the second article in a series on risk...
• Features
  Tips to Fast Forward Your Career:Coaching Versus Mentoring
  Many people in business today are looking to improve their skills,...
• Features
  Agents Learn About Potential Policy Glitches, Coverage Fixes
  Are you and your customers aware of potential policy "glitches" in...
• Features
  FAIA: Employment Crisis Threatens Agencies
  An impending employment crisis is threatening independent insurance...
• Features
  Los Angeles All Industry Day Highlights Education, Emerging Trends
  Issues including low cost auto insurance, the changing environment of...
• Features
  Whitfield: Legislation Might Be Needed To Resolve Jockey Issues
  Racetrack executives appeared before a House panel recently, arguing...
• Features
  Companies May Not Be Protected Against Personal Privacy Breaches
  As more companies outsource the processing of sensitive personal...
• Features
  Roundabouts Turning Intersections into Circular Drives
  Backed up at an intersection? Wary of those tough left-hand turns...
• Case Watch
  Case Law Watch
  Montana House Bill 631 (Signed into law on April 8,...
• Features
  Small Business Ain’t ‘Bean Bag’
  American small-business owners understand all too well that politics...
• People & Places
  People & Places
  Miranda Wescott The National Alliance for Insurance Education &...
• New Markets
  Non-Franchised Auto Dealers
  Nuts & Bolts: DMI Insurance Services Inc. has expanded the range of...
• New Markets
  Luxury Condos and Co-ops
  Nuts & Bolts: The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies has rolled out...
• New Markets
  Energy Risk
  Nuts & Bolts: ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operating division of...
• New Markets
  Temporary Staffing Industry Coverage
  Nuts & Bolts: AIG Risk Management, a member of American International...
• New Markets
  Employment Practices Liability
  Nuts & Bolts: CNA has updated and enhanced its suite of management...
• Features
  Major Insurers, Non-Profits Launch Community-based Healthcare Initiative Impact
  Impact Community Capital LLC, a consortium of major insurance...
• Features
  Climate Model Predicts Dramatic Changes in Next 100 Years
  The most comprehensive climate model of the continental United States...
• Features
  Executive Life Judge Confirms Some $900M in Total Verdicts, Settlements
  California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has praised a Los...
• Features
  Issues in Current Return Premium Accounting
  California Insurance Code requires property and casualty insurance...
• Features
  How Program Managers Can Avoid the ‘Courthouse Blues’
  A little old lady from San Francisco rejected an earthquake...
• Features
  Words Mean a Lot When Administrators and Carriers Write Marriage Vows
  Program managers urged to protect themselves when negotiating carrier...
• Fraud Roundup
  San Diego Contractor Ordered to Pay $37,669 in Restitution to State Fund
  A San Diego County Superior Court has sentenced Valley Center,...
• Fraud Roundup
  Calif. Doc Arrested in Scam
  Ventura County, Calif., District Attorney Gregory Totten has...
• Fraud Roundup
  Former Calif. Broker Nabbed on Grand Theft Charges
  A former Beverly Hills, Calif., insurance broker has been arrested...
• Fraud Roundup
  Lawsuit Claims Disability Insurer Sought to Avoid Paying Claims
  UnumProvident Corp., the nation's largest disability insurer, has...
• Fraud Roundup
  Utah Pharmacy Owner Arrested on Suspicion of Fraudulent Billing
  The owner of the Park City Pharmacy at The Clinic in Utah has been...
• Fraud Roundup
  Calif. Couple, Brothers Nabbed for Felony Auto Fraud Scam
  A husband, his wife and another man have been arrested on felony auto...
• Newsbriefs
  NEW ONLINE LICENSE SERVICE AVAILABLE FOR WASH. AGENTS AND BROKERS
  Insurance agents, brokers and other insurance professionals licensed...
• Newsbriefs
  LAWMAKERS ASK COLO. TO CRACK DOWN ON AUTO INSURANCE COMPANIES
  Democratic lawmakers have asked the Colorado Division of Insurance to...
• Newsbriefs
  Calif. Commissioner Announces Team in Bid for Lieutenant Governor
  California Insurance Commissioner and Democratic candidate for...
• Newsbriefs
  UA RESEARCH: RISK OF FLOODING IN ARIZONA NOT AS SEVERE AS ESTIMATED
  Up to 29,000 Arizonans paid for insurance under the National Flood...
• Newsbriefs
  EMPLOYERS, EMPLOYEES COULD BE HURT BY DISABILITY INCOME INSURANCE CHANGES
  Proposed changes in the regulation of disability income insurance in...
• Newsbriefs
  COLO. COMP PREMIUM TO DECREASE
  Beginning Jan. 1, 2006, the standard premium for workers'...
• Newsbriefs
  NO WORKERS’ COMP PREMIUM INCREASES SCHEDULED IN WASHINGTON
  Washington's Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) has announced...
• Newsbriefs
  SAFECO SEES AFTER-TAX LOSSES FROM WILMA AT $29 MILLION
  Seattle-based Safeco has announced estimated after-tax catastrophe...

National Coverage

• Features
  Ease of Doing Business Survey Sets Benchmark for Carriers to Follow
  Ease of Doing Business (EDB) has been a bit like the...
• Features
  Industry Group Sees Sarbanes-Oxley as an Example of Hyper-Vigilance
  The extension of Sarbanes-Oxley to non-public insurance companies is...
• News Briefs
  News Briefs
  Greenberg Will Not Face Criminal Charges: Additional civil charges...
• Features
  Swiss Re to Acquire GE Insurance Solutions for $6.8 Billion
  In retrospect, the name GE Insurance Solutions (principal operating...
• Features
  Smaller and Regional Programs: Proven Exercises
  Pumped for profit Robin C. Brennan knows fuel dealers. She's been...
• News Briefs
  News Briefs
  Willis Expands in China, Latin America: In a breakthrough agreement,...
• Features
  Agency Consolidation Dynamics are Ripe for the Picking
  The consolidation of insurance agencies has played a prominent role...
• Features
  IJ’s Program Directory, as well as IJ’s E&S Directory and Workers’ Comp Directory, are also available online. Brokers an
  Welcome to Insurance Journal's 14th Annual Program Directory, Volume...
• Features
  ASI, Zurich, AIG
  ust like Arnold Schwarzenegger, today's strongest and most successful...
• Minding Your Business
  When to Create an Agency Marketing Department
  Agencies that establish an effective centralized marketing department...