Insurance Advocate
- VIEWS FROM THE BOTTOM: After The Fact It's Usually Too Late!([LOOKING BACK] INSURANCE ADVOCATE - 26 YEARS AGO)
- THE INSURANCE ADVOCATE HAS BEEN IN PUBLICATION SINCE 1889. EACH ISSUE, WE LOOK BACK TO A DIFFERENT TIME TO SEE WHAT INSURERS WERE READING ABOUT BACK THEN. HERE'S AN EXCERPT FROM.
- Workers' Comp Schedule Rating Plans Can Be Used to Increase or Reduce Premiums.
- In de novo Proceeding, Attorney fees are Fixed DY Court, 'Not Regulation 68: Matter of Country-Wide Ins. Co. v TC Acupuncture P.C.
- IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE THE ANSWER TO INSURANCE FRAUD?
- Brightway Insurance opens new Agencies in FL, NY and TX.
- THE INSURANCE ADVOCATE HAS BEEN IN PUBLICATION SINCE 1889. EACH ISSUE, WE LOOK BACK TO A DIFFERENT TIME TO SEE WHAT INSURERS WERE READING ABOUT BACK THEN. HERE'S AN EXCERPT FROM.
- Robusto Honored by UJA.
- AUW founder, Steve Menzies, Acquires Insurance Companies from Berkshire Hathaway in $920MM Transaction.
- VIEWS FROM THE BOTTOM.
- Corvus Continues Rapid Acceleration with New Clients and 380% Gross Written Premium Growth.
- The Numbers Tell The Story: M&A is Hotter Than Ever Among Agencies.
- From Martin Carus, former DFS Life Bureau Chief.
- Next- Generation Solutions for Next- Generation Security Risks.
- Driving distracted? Probably.
- Andrew J. McMahon Named Guardian Chief Executive Officer.
- Reg 187 Battle Lines... Written: PIANY and Big I Join in Opposition as DFS Promugates Reg 187.
- CyberCube Analytics Provides the First Inside-Out View of Risk Exposure for the Cyber Insurers: Trident Capital Cybersecurity and Symantec Ventures support the Launch.
- Northeast PIA Launches 'Work with an Agent'.
- Ohio National Life Insurance Company's Termination or Trail Commissions.
- Lender Must TreatMortgagee with Utmost Good Faith.
- NAIC Releases In-Depth 2021 Property/Casualty Market Share Data Report.
- Arbitration Awards Need Abuse to Be Overturned: Arbitrators have Substantial Discretion to Determine the Scope of Their Contractual Authority to Fashion Remedies.
- Insurance Saves.
- Arsonist Did the Crime and Must Serve the Time: Arson-For-Profit That Caused Death of Firefighter Results In 360 Months in Federal Prison.
- Peter Milnes Honored for Forty Years of Leadership and Service.
- THE INSURANCE ADVOCATE HAS BEEN IN PUBLICATION SINCE 1889. EACH ISSUE, WE LOOK BACK TO A DIFFERENT TIME TO SEE WHAT INSURERS WERE READING ABOUT BACK THEN. HERE'S AN EXCERPT FROM.
- Summary Suspension of a DFS License.
- ELANY Holds 33rd Annual Members' Meeting; Breslin Delivers Keynote.
- PIANY Presents Distinguished Insurance Service Award to Miret, Posthumously.
- New Capacity--$20 Billion Worth--Poured Into P/C In Past Few Years, But Window Seen Closing.
- The beginning ...
- IIAA Calling On State Regulators To Reject The CGL Filing By ISO On 'Pass Through' Defense Cost Coverage; NAIC Committee Decides To Stand Pat.
- Science.
- PIANY Leader meets with Southern Tier lawmakers to discuss legislative priorities.
- Dipping your toe into the social media as an agent.
- Trends in the Marketing and Distribution of Life Insurance.
- Drivers with Poor Credit Pay Twice as Much for Car Insurance--Even With a Spotless Driving Record.
- MSO Elects Fulton, Makes Staff Changes.
- THE INSURANCE ADVOCATE HAS BEEN IN PUBLICATION SINCE 1889. EACH ISSUE, WE LOOK BACK TO A DIFFERENT TIME TO SEE WHAT INSURERS WERE READING ABOUT BACK THEN.
- Consumer Reports Investigates Auto Insurance Telematics.
- As we go to Press...
- IFNY ELECTS HOWARD MILLS PRESIDENT Former State Assemblyman and Superintendent of Insurance succeeds Nick Pearson.
- Dear Producer--No Insurtech is No Excuse.
- Agents Council for Technology Announces Online Agency CX Self-Assessment.
- Commingling of Funds.
- How to Comply with the New Sexual Harassment Laws.
- LICONY Celebrates 51st Anniversary.
- The Four Corners Rule Strikes Again.
- Adrienne Harris Named Superintendent of the Department Of Financial Services.
- Remembering a Friend ...
- No Bad Faith Effective, Professional Arson Investigation Defeats Claims of Bad Faith.
- When Medical Provider Bills Under a "By Report" Code, Insurer Must Demand Supporting Documents if it Wants Them: Pavlova a/a/o Cosby Reavis v Allstate Ins. Co.
- Big "I" President Rusbuldt to be Succeeded by Symington.
- Who Defines Disinformation?
- Hall of Shame Unmasks Winners for 2020: $80-billion pandemic of insurance fraud.
- The Oft Unheard Skill: Listening: Seven Simple Ways to Turn Up the Volume on Leadership and Client Service.
- Alliance Tells NAIC Working Group That Model Holding Company Bill Proposed Amendments On 'Extraordinary Dividends' Still Have Problems.
- PIANY Elects Five to Board of Directors.
- American Economy Responding To Needs; Not Inflation Oriented.
- Title Agents: Bill S.2929A Revisits Regulation 208.
- What's new with AI (Artificial Intelligence) in Workers Compensation Claims Processing?
- The New Normal in Claims Management: Random No Longer Rules: Premonition Analytics and the New Normal in Claims Management.
- New Alliance Unites Insurance Agencies Across the Southeast.
- Homeowners' Customer Satisfaction Measured.
- SUM Coverage Is Offset By Recovery From Tortfeasor.
- Attorney Has No Liability For Talking Client Into Filing Meritless Lawsuit.
- PIANT Taps Top Talent for Year: PIANY Elects Ferris President.
- RAP Wrap-Up PIANY Hudson Valley Conference Hails "Heroes'': PIANY's HVRAP returns to Suffern; Event hones in on participation and communication.
- PIANY Commends Legislation Proposed by ELANY.
- KPMG: insurance sector struggling to innovate: "the heat of disruption" challenges status quo and redundancy.
- PIACT Names Officers for 2019-20.
- State Not Liable for Vicious Assault by Guards on Inmate: Rivera v State of New York, 2019 NY Slip Op 08521 (Court of Appeals, NY) (Decided on November 25, 2019).
- "Unfair Trade Practices" Exclusion Does Not Extend to Consumer Protection Claims.
- A new report has hit the cyber cover situation head on revealing that: just 55% of organizations currently have cyber insurance, and of those, most policies have limits far lower than the cost of the average attack.
- First minority-led tier-one insurance and reinsurance broker launches in the U.S.: 'Protecdiv, the first tier-one minority-led insurance and reinsurance broker in the U.S.', has launched.
- One Problem Solved Creates Another.
- Vouch Insurance Expands Coverage to New York.
- Insurance Recovery / Policyholder Champion Robin Cohen Launches New Law Firm.
- Why Belong?
- Major Trade Associations Announce Partnership to Stem Towing & Staged Accident Fraud.
- New Jersey Policy + New Jersey: Accident = No New York: PIP Arbitration: In the Matter of the Arbitration between: Spike Medical PC and New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance Co.
- NAIC Names 2020 Committee Leaders.
- A Clear and Unambiguous Exclusion Cant Beat a Great Lawyer: Bar Negligent for not Seeking Arrest of Drunk & Disorderly Customer.
- February 2022: The New Comprehensive Insurance Disclosure Act.
- Chutzpah: Murder for Insurance Money Life Sentences Affirmed: INSURANCE FRAUD IS A VIOLENT CRIME.
- White and Griffin Honored.
- Catalyits Tech Impact.
- The Top Five Don'ts of Employee Handbooks.
- COVID-19: The 2021 Landscape for Surgeons.
- Of Fevers and Thermometers: The Coming Florida Insurance Market Gets the Shivers.
- Report: Is the Insurance Talent Gap Real?
- Deregulate New York: Winners Reveal Albany Obstacles.
- NY Appeals Court Again Decides Issue Not Raised on Appeal: Bronx Med. Diagnostic, P.C. v Hereford Ins. Co., 2019 NY Slip Op 51793(U).
- Legal Analytics: (Must-Have Tool Assists Carriers in Data-Driven Legal Decisions and Success in Litigation.
- Cuomo Call to Investigate Advertisers Use of Facebook Platform Points in Right Directions.
- Cybersecurity Secrets Unveiled for the Insurance World: Not All Vulnerabilities are Created Equally.
- AARP Representative Tells PIA Conference Insurers And Consumers Must Be Wary Of Federal Mandate To Banks On Insurance Sales; Disaster Act Is Viewed.
- SMALL BUSINESSES 'SATISFIED': Small Business Commercial Insurance Customer Satisfaction Reaches Ail-Time High Thanks to Investments in Digital, Servicing and Product Expansion, J.D. Power Finds.
- Big 'I' Leaders Among Top D.C. Lobbyists.
- An Experienced Adjuster Would Have Recognized That Jeweler's Inventory Exists to be Sold: Diminution in Value of Stock of Jeweler is a Direct Physical Loss Personal Property Not Damaged is Fraud.
- Big 'I' Member Reappointed to Federal Advisory Committee on Insurance.
- Aquiline Announces Agreement to Acquire Relation Insurance Services.
- Religious Abuse Liability Institutions - Child Sex: Monaghan v Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Ctr.
- Starting From Scratch.
- PIANJ Applauds State Senate, Assembly for Passage of Producer Duty-of-Care Bill.
- Big T and Future One Release 2022 Agency Universe Findings.
- Finseca and NAILBA have Officially Merged.
- NYIA Regulatory Symposium Looks at Insuring 'Environment'.
- IFNY Honors Beale, Lanning: 300 Gather at New York's Historic Union League Club to Honor Inga Beale, former CEO of Lloyd's and Mary Lanning Public Service Leader; Supt. Vullo address audience; LFNY interns present accomplishments.
- Insurance Professionals Honored with PIANY Scholarships.
- Fraud Steals estimated $87 Billion from Insurers: Real Cases Underline Duplicity.
- Hospital Imprisons Patients for Profit.
- Money Can't Buy You Health.
- Insurance marketing featuring Facebooks new feature.
- Jewelers Mutual[R] Group Adds New Member to Board of Directors.
- Applied Underwriters Announces Formation of Applied Specialty Underwriters, Names Christopher Day President of the New Company.
- PIANY opposes business interruption bill.
- Project Delays Add to Construction Insurance Costs.
- Industry's 'Robust Capital Position' Blamed For Delay In The Turnaround Of Underwriting Cycle.
- LIFE & HEALTH: Nearly 39 Million Non-Elderly Americans Now Without Health Insurance--Private or Public--Up From 36.3 Million In 1991.
- Big T and Reagan Consulting Release 2022 Best Practices Study Results.
- S&P: "Full Stack" Insurtech Enterprises Shine For 2021 US Insurtech to see More M&A, Heightened Investor Interest.
- FIDUCIARY PROFESSIONS Legal Challenges and Solutions for Trustees of Trust-Owned Life Insurance: Active and careful management is required.
- Eager for Their Inheritance: Gen Xers and millennials are ready to carry the collectible-car torch.
- Medical Costs Transparency: As Clear as Peanut Butter.
- Thought Police (Oops, Medicare) For All.
- Free Medical Care: A Deal With the Devil?
- Plaintiff's 2001 Judgment Gets Paid with Compound Interest Despite 14 Year Delay in Enforcement.
- Katherine Papa Elected To Board Of National Association Of Public Insurance Adjusters (Napia).
- NCCI Announces 2021 Workers Compensation Performance Metrics.
- Insurers Step Up, Despite Some Officials' Proposed Solutions.
- Maryellen Coggins Becomes President of the American Academy of Actuaries: COGGINS SUCCEEDS 2020-21 PRESIDENT TOM CAMPBELL.
- What Happens When a Life Insurance Policy Designates an Ex-Spouse as the Beneficiary.
- Claimant Must Apply to Liquidation Bureau Before Going to MVAIC.
- Adrienne A. Harris: Transcript of the Testimony Delivered to the Legislative Fiscal Committees on the State Budget Health on February 8, 2022.
- LIFE'S POTENTIALS: Introducing ABC Plus.
- The Coming Impact of ESG on M&A.
- Three Honored at IMUA 89th Annual Meeting: John Tutera Receives IMUA Lifetime Achievement Award.
- "I Can't Get No... " or Can I?
- Mask-Wearing Represents Fear & Blind Obedience, Not Science.
- Insurers' donation provides relief to Big 'I' members.
- PIANJ Announces John Laux Memorial Scholarship Winner.
- PCI Elects New Officers to the Board of Governors.
- FOXs Bill Hemmer to Address Big 'I' Members.
- Go Directly to Jail, Do Not Pass Go: Chutzpah: Convicted of Insurance Fraud Appeals to Avoid Going to Jail.
- John F. Finston Appointed Executive Deputy Superintendent of the Insurance Division at the NYS Dept of Financial Services.
- Safest Cities in New York, 2019.
- William J. Flynn Cited As 'Outstanding CEO' Of Past Twenty-Five Years In LICONY Tribute.
- AI and Insurance: Whats in That Black Box?
- 'Cadillac Cash'.
- Fmr DFS Head, Maria Vullo Looks to AG Post.
- Vullo confirmed superintendant of NYDFS.
- Matthew Hudnall Joins Preferred Mutual as Senior Vice President, Underwriting.
- THE ABC'S OF CBD REGULATION Cannabis Legal on the Federal Level?
- New NAIC Model Act Requires Insurers To Tell Insurance Dept. About Frontinq Arrangements.
- Judge Properly. Questioned Witness at Trial to Clarify Insurance Fraud Allegations: Plus A Second Case Review Regarding Water Damage.
- Expert Is a Four-letter Word.
- PIANY's MetroRAP: Agents Gather in Manhattan for '18 RAP.
- PIANJ/PIANY: Take Over Atlantic City 80's Style!
- Hagerty Acquires Broad Arrow Group.
- The Necessary Boldness of the Entrepreneur.
- Lawyer Appointed by Insurer had a Duty of Zealous Representation: The Business Of Insurance Is Subject To The Law Of Unintended Consequences As If It Were On Steroids.
- In Surfside Ruins, Stark Reminders of Board Duties.
- New Amendments to Delaware General Corporation Law Will Make It Easier for Companies to Become Public Benefit Corporations.
- Surge in working from home raises cyber exposure issues.
- 2nd Annual Surplus Lines and Reinsurance Forum Returns to the ULC; Draws 100.
- Velella Wants to Adapt 2% Non-Renewal Rule on Auto Insurance for Homeowners; Files Legislation.
- NICO, Sans Hunter, Sets Out Future Program; Will Support Single Payer Health Insurance, Repeal Of McCarran-Ferguson, Natural Disaster Public Policy.
- Five Steps: To Resolving Construction Disputes Without Litigation.
- Do Insurers Get Their Moneys Worth from Fighting Fraud?
- NY Court Orders Disclosure Of Ethics Probe against Mayor DiBlasio.
- Academy Officers and Regular Directors Begin Terms.
- Fraud = Higher Premiums.
- Potential Implications of COVID-19 for the Insurance Sector: How the Coronavirus Outbreak May Impact Insurers Operationally and Economically.
- The De-sciencing of American Medicine and What it Means to You.
- Israel Bonds' Insurance & Financial Services Division Honors Two Influential Industry Professionals.
- Mills Appointed; Lacewell Ties in New Staff.
- Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Recognized as a "Worlds Best Employer".
- Epidemics, Fear and Denial: How Every American Is Threatened.
- Top Nine Mistakes Employers Make in Employment Applications.
- Independent Insurance Channel Growth Remains Stable: Reagan Consulting Urges Agents, Brokers to Continue Improving Efficiency.
- NAII President Detects Increasing Awareness By Public Of Factors Affecting Rates, Availability.
- Fall from Cherry on Top But No Cake: Business Exclusion Clear and Enforceable.
- A Fable of Fraud: ZIFL publishes this Story at Holiday Time Every Year. I Hope You like it Again.
- New York Ranks as Largest Donor State in the Nation.
- U.S. Chamber Issues Sharp Challenge To IRS Proposals On Pension-SS Integration.
- Top Five Agency Marketing Myths.
- N.Y. Bill Round Up: Standards For Equitable Payments of Insurance Commissions, Insurance for Historical Motor Vehicles and more.
- Faulty Blood Test Results Do Not Make Doctor Liable For Patients ER Bill.
- Termination Check List To Bullet Proof Legal Challenge.
- Court Orders Sanctions Inquiry Against Attorneys Who Sued Wrong Insurer: Natural Therapy Acupuncture, P.C. v Omni Indem. Co.
- Facebook Cannot Appeal Grant of Warrant to Search User's Account, Holds Court of Appeals: Matter of 381 Search Warrants Directed to Facebook, Inc.
- Honoree Calls for Rejection of Cynicism: Menzies Calls for 'Advocacy Plus Personal Engagement to Make Financial Commitment Meaningful' in Address to Israel Bonds Luncheon.
- PIANY Names Tomassi President.
- Avalanche of Legislation Passed in Response to COVID 19.
- The Human Touch.
- Slip, Fall and then some...
- Igniting the Tech Change in a PostPandemic Workplace: How Companies Are Shifting Focus to Health and Safety as Turnover Accelerates.
- Giving Medicare for All a Facelift: the Ugly Is Still There.