Insurance Advocate - 2020
- COL. FELLER RETURNS TO PRACTICE OF LAW.
- The Spirit of Risk Taking ...
- Big 'I' Member Reappointed to Federal Advisory Committee on Insurance.
- NAIC Names 2020 Committee Leaders.
- Big 'I' Names New President of Big I Advantage[R].
- Velella Introduces Bill to Establish Peer Reviews on No-Fault Medical Treatment.
- Fifth Amendment Doesn't Apply to a Plaintiff's Suit: Fear of Arson Arrest Not Basis for Refusing to Testify.
- What's new with AI (Artificial Intelligence) in Workers Compensation Claims Processing?
- Remembering a Friend ...
- NYIA Elects 2020 Officers.
- Expanded Role for Big 'I' Virtual University Director.
- Science.
- MORAL MARKETS New Concerns Carry Ethics to Next Level.([COVER])
- LOOKING BACK: INSURANCE ADVOCATE--75 YEARS AGO.
- Five Ways Employers Get Themselves Sued.
- BIDDLE REITERATES JUSTICE DEPT. STAND ON STATE REGULATION.
- Insurance ADVOCATE: 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.([LOOKING BACK])
- Faulty Blood Test Results Do Not Make Doctor Liable For Patients ER Bill.
- Brightway Insurance opens new Agencies in FL, NY and TX.
- Vouch Insurance Expands Coverage to New York.([IN THE NEWS])
- Some Pandemic Measures Deserve Keeping.
- Priority of Liens in Personal Injury Settlement: Motor Vehicle Accident Indem. Corp. v Bader & Yakaitis LLP et al., 2020 NY Slip Op 50798(U) Supreme Court, New York County, Index No. 450314/2019. Decided 08 July 2020.
- IME No-Show Voids NY Auto Policy, Even in PIP Arbitration: Matter of Global Liberty Ins. Co. of N.Y. v Capital Chiropractic, P. C., 2020 NY Slip Op 01466 (Appellate Division, First Department).
- Advising an Insurer of a Claim When Insurance Obtained by Fraud is a Crime: Conviction Affirmed Against the best Wishes of the Appellate Court.
- FLAMES: AAIS Data-Driven Fire Risk Model Sparks Approval.
- Triple-I Joint Industry Forum.
- Edward J. Muhl, Former Md. Commissioner Named by Pataki as N.Y. Insurance Sup't.
- INSURANCE ADVOCATE--75 YEARS AGO.
- Small Commercial Insurance: Bigger, More Varied and More Specialized: Changes Driven by New Technology and Increased Carrier Appetite.
- Unlicensed Doctor Convicted of Insurance Fraud and Other Crimes.([ON MY RADAR])
- SUM Coverage Is Offset By Recovery From Tortfeasor.
- SterlingRisk Names Alternative Market Leader.
- IBANY Names Rubin Alspector, Insurance Person of the Year.
- The High Risk of Insuring Cannabis.
- Stress Inside and Outside the Workplace: Part I of III: Excerpted from the forthcoming book Stress in the American Workplace.
- Attorney Has No Liability For Talking Client Into Filing Meritless Lawsuit.
- Colorado Supreme Court Says: No Duty To Retreat in Self-Defense Case.
- Restrictive Covenants For Insurance Producers: A Primer On Legal Enforceability: As States continue to diverge in their interpretation and enforcement of restrictive covenant agreements, it is now more important than ever to ensure those agreements are drafted to conform with jurisdiction-specific laws.
- S&P Market Intelligence releases its annual 2020 Insurance M&A Outlook Analysis.
- Largest insurance convention in Connecticut features a brand new format.
- Artificial Intelligence Review of Insurance Contracts - Are we there yet?
- As Evil as They Can Be, a Racoon Can Never Be a Vandal: Court Refuses to Allow Pro Se Plaintiff to Annoy Court.
- Considerations for the COVID-19 Crisis.
- Jacques Bonneau Appointed President and Ceo of Partner Re.
- Applied Underwriters Forms Applied Specialty Underwriters: Christopher Day Named President of the New Company.
- SUM Coverage Is Offset By Recovery From Tortfeasor.
- Really, Hot ...and Cool.
- Insurance Companies and the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York: A Sensible Proposal.
- ACT Releases Agency Cyber Guide 3.0.
- 2020 INSURANCE REGULATORY OUTLOOK FROM DELOITTE: STATUS QUO NOT AN OPTION FOR INSURERS: The Deloitte Center for Regulatory Strategy, Americas prepares a cross-industry series on the forthcoming year's top regulatory trends, eyeing some of the issues that will have a significant impact on businesses: We excerpt liberally from the text....
- 'Risk Thinking' in an Unstable World.
- Willis Towers Watson Launches Partnership with the Wharton Schools Mack Institute.([IN THE NEWS])
- Arsonist Did the Crime and Must Serve the Time: Arson-For-Profit That Caused Death of Firefighter Results In 360 Months in Federal Prison.
- Lockton Affinity--NTDOBI Consent Order Highlights Affinity Marketing Risk.
- Sari Gabay Named Insurance Regulatory Lawyer of the Year.
- The Coming Impact of ESG on M&A.
- Insurers Step Up, Despite Some Officials' Proposed Solutions.
- SQrBlock Offers Supply Chain Management for the Cannabis Industry.
- How New Technology Will Shake Up the Future of the Insurance Industry.
- PIANY Leader meets with Southern Tier lawmakers to discuss legislative priorities.
- Tobias Starts Initiative to Get No-Fault Law on '96 Calif. Ballot.
- Surge in working from home raises cyber exposure issues.
- Starting From Scratch.
- Risk Retention Groups Report Financially Stable Third Quarter 2020 Results.
- The Insured Signs the Proof of Loss not the Public Adjuster--Beware! Fraud by Public Adjuster Imputed to Insured.
- PIANY Applauds Gov. Murphy.
- Cuomo Announces $18 Million Initiative for Entrepreneurs in NY State: Training for Workers and Support Entrepreneurs During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic.
- NY Court Orders Disclosure Of Ethics Probe against Mayor DiBlasio.
- Deregulate New York: Winners Reveal Albany Obstacles.
- Geraldine DelPrete Named President of Programs at Sterling Risk.
- Velella Wants to Adapt 2% Non-Renewal Rule on Auto Insurance for Homeowners; Files Legislation.
- I'm Not a Carjacker--I was Only Helping an Insurance Fraud.
- Mitch Gets the Hitch As Next Stimulus Package Is Unwrapped.
- Independent Agencies Hit Hard by Covid-19: Agencies report decreased revenue and loss of commercial lines clients.
- Olympics Delay, Not Cancellation, Provides Reprieve for Insurers.
- 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.
- Attorney Has No Liability For Talking Client Into Filing Meritless Lawsuit.
- DFS Circular Letters Encourage Leniency on Insureds and Extend Continuing Education Licensing Deadlines.
- Agents to Bring on Exclusive State Fund?
- PIANY 1995 Legislative Program Aims At W.C., Auto Insurance.
- CoverWallet for Agents Joins Agents Council for Technology.
- Andrew J. McMahon Named Guardian Chief Executive Officer.
- Insurability Issues Detour Truckers: DEMOTECH EMERGES AS KEY MEASURE.
- Giving Medicare for All a Facelift: the Ugly Is Still There.
- Pandemic or Not, Serious Insurance Fraud Criminal Must Serve the Sentence: Attempt to Avoid Sentence Because Of Pandemic by Insurance Criminal Fails.
- Consumers Increase Shopping for Auto Insurance Despite COVID-19 Challenges: Newly released TransUnion Insurance Shopping Annual Report uncovers impacts of COVID-19 on personal auto insurance.
- NY Courts Have Jurisdiction Over North Carolina Driver and Insurer.
- Leadership Is Doing: AXIOMS THAT PROMPT "DOING" AS A LEADERSHIP STYLE AND EDGE.
- New Constitution is Adopted by Brokers.
- Pataki Names Jackson As Motor Vehicle Commissioner.
- Teleworking as the 'New Normal' Presents Challenges for Employers.
- PAPERWORK PANDEMIC: COVID-19: Lawmakers Should Protect Businesses Filing Business Interruption Claims.
- Insurance Advocate Columnists Retire.
- Independent Insurance Channel Growth Remains Stable: Reagan Consulting Urges Agents, Brokers to Continue Improving Efficiency.
- Corvus Continues Rapid Acceleration with New Clients and 380% Gross Written Premium Growth.
- Asia Insurance Review and Middle East Insurance Review Join Beacon International Group, Global Insurance Media Leader.
- Thoughts For Leaders.
- PRIMER RESCISSION OF INSURANCE.
- Potential Implications of COVID-19 for the Insurance Sector: How the Coronavirus Outbreak May Impact Insurers Operationally and Economically.
- Maryland's Angela Ripley Elected to Big 'I' Executive Committee.
- Zoom Boom Bombing.
- Avalanche of Legislation Passed in Response to COVID 19.
- Amend and Extend: National Flood Insurance Program Reauthorization as an Opportunity for Reform.
- Etra forms Bridge Benefits Group.
- Insurers' donation provides relief to Big 'I' members.
- NEWS AND VIEWS--.
- THE ABC'S OF CBD REGULATION Cannabis Legal on the Federal Level?
- Expert Is a Four-letter Word.
- PIANY opposes business interruption bill.
- 'NEEDLESSY EXPENSIVE AND RESTRICTIVE': DeregulateNY calls for a submission of 'obstacles'.
- Axa XL launches commercial umbrella program.
- Virtual Mediation and Virtual Arbitration: Stop the World (Please!) I Want to Get Off!(ARBITRATION)
- S&P P/C Least Impacted.
- AI and Insurance: Whats in That Black Box?
- The Necessary Boldness of the Entrepreneur.
- Reminiscences and Observations.
- Electrical Safety Coalition Formed in N.Y.C. to Overturn Decision to End Building Inspections.
- Prechtl Elected Chair of New York Insurance Association.
- Backstops.
- No Harm, No Foul When Instruction Error Favorable to Defendant: Podiatrist Jailed for Participation in Kickback Scheme Prescribing Compounded Medications Solely to Obtain Kickbacks.
- Medicare for All--No Care for You.
- Forbes Advisor Unveils First-Ever Best Life Insurance Companies Awards.
- DFS Issues Cybersecurity Risk Alert.
- President H. E. Moore Reports on Work of Year to the Executive Committee.
- Applied Underwriters Announces Formation of Applied Specialty Underwriters, Names Christopher Day President of the New Company.([IN THE NEWS])
- Cash Value Life Insurance Provides a Safe Harbor in Today's Economic Storm.
- IMUA Announces 2020 Board Election Results.
- New Amendments to Delaware General Corporation Law Will Make It Easier for Companies to Become Public Benefit Corporations.
- Coronavirus could affect medical malpractice rates, say experts.
- Campbell Becomes President of the American Academy of Actuaries.
- McCaughey Proposals to Reform Medicaid Win Praise; Would Mandate Managed Care Coverage.
- From the Files, Some Fraudulent "Beauties".
- Amid Uncertainty, Insurance Brokerage Firms Remain Resilient, Optimistic: Agents, Brokers a 'Shining Star' in First Half of 2020, Reports Reagan Consulting.
- Fitting Accords.([FOREWORD])
- Restrictive Covenants for Insurance Producers.
- DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN P&C INSURANCE: Current Benchmark and Future Roadmap.
- Insurance Industry Can Set Standards on Cyber Security as World Digitizes, Impacting Society: CyberCube CEO speaks at Davos workshop on market incentives for cyber security and innovation.
- Kevin H. Kelley to receive the Business Insurance Lifetime Achievement Award: The Business Insurance Lifetime Achievement award recognizes individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the risk management and insurance sector over the course of their careers.
- INSURANCE ADVOCATE--75 YEARS AGO.
- '...BUT I WOULDN'T WANT TO LIVE THERE'.
- Willis Towers Watson Launches Partnership with the Wharton School's Mack Institute.
- Vouch Insurance Expands Coverage to New York.
- Why a Policyholder Must Fulfill all Conditions before Filing Suit: Failure to Submit to EUO Abates Lawsuit.
- Fraud Steals estimated $87 Billion from Insurers: Real Cases Underline Duplicity.
- Howard Mills Appointed to Ensight Board.
- Navigating financial services sector performance post-COVID-19: Impact on personal and commercial auto insurance.
- GOV. DEWEY ACTS ON INSURANCE BILLS.
- What Happens When Disability Laws Conflict with Company Policy?
- Vast majority of Insurance Customers Prefer Conversational AI and Messaging Experiences.