Insurance Advocate - 2021
- ALIENT AGENT: CLIENT/AGENT: THE NEW "SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP" DECISION.
- Deloitte: More Risks On More Fronts: Credit Risk, ESG and Cybersecurity Top Concerns for Financial Institutions.
- Preferred Policies.([FOREWORD])
- New IMUA Officers & Board Members Elected.([IN THE ASSOCIATIONS] INSURANCE ADVOCATE)
- Auto and Property Insurance Shopping Continue to Diverge; Both Younger and Riskier Consumers Increase Auto Shopping: Transllnion report reveals the personal lines insurance marketplace shows signs of returning to pre-pandemic levels.([TRENDS])
- SMALL COMMERCIAL INSUREDS: EXPECTATIONS FOR NEW BUYERS QUANTIFIED IN KEY SURVEY: Generational trends point to inherent differences and new business approaches.([COVER])
- Worn out words.([FOREWORD])
- DOMICILE V. RESIDENCE IN INSURANCE CLAIMS: Domicile or Residence of Insured or Insurer.
- Maryellen Coggins Becomes President of the American Academy of Actuaries: COGGINS SUCCEEDS 2020-21 PRESIDENT TOM CAMPBELL.([IN THE ASSOCIATIONS] INSURANCE ADVOCATE)
- "Unfair Trade Practices" Exclusion Does Not Extend to Consumer Protection Claims.([GUEST ARTICLE])
- NAPIA Elects New President.
- Garamendi Introduces Bill to Bolster Oversight of Nations Financial System.([REGULATORY NEWS])
- THE POST COVID CONSUMER: Buyers Unmask New Plans To Shave Costs And Shred Cares.
- TigerRisk appoints former A.M. Best CRO Jack Snyder as Head of Insurtech Origination and Head of Financial Advisory.([IN THE NEWS])
- Insurance broker M&A activity up YOY in FY'20.
- Applied Underwriters' Exceptional Care for Injured Workers Featured in Fall TV Series on Discovery Life: "Back from the Brink" highlights heroic recoveries and the people who realized them.([NEWS])
- Appeals court reverses, orders fall injury compensable.
- Academy Officers and Regular Directors Begin Terms.
- A Theft is a Taking of Property: A Decision Finding Theft Can Be a Taking of More than Money Costs National Union $22,114,883 Plus Interest.([ON MY RADAR])
- IAT Insurance Group Welcomes Joe Buffalano as VP of Underwriting, Management Liability.
- Agents Council for Technology Announces Online Agency CX Self-Assessment.([IN THE ASSOCIATIONS])
- IMA Financial Group Acquires Bolton & Company: Largest-ever partnership adds California to IMA's expanding footprint, continues rapid growth trajectory.(IN THE NEWS)
- Driving distracted? Probably.([IN FOCUS])
- Did Covid Change That?([FOREWORD])
- TURNS FOR THE BETTER... AND WORSE How Insurance Premiums Have Changed in Each State since 2010.(COVER)
- Richard A. Loconte Named President and CEO of the Life Insurance Council of New York.
- Mask-Wearing Represents Fear & Blind Obedience, Not Science.([GUEST OPINION])
- Aflac Global Investments Announces $2.1 Billion Strategic Partnership with Denham Capital to Accelerate Denham Sustainable Infrastructures Platform.([IN THE NEWS] INSURANCE ADVOCATE)
- Remembering Fmr. Ny Supt of Insurance, Albert Lewis.([FOREWORD])
- IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE THE ANSWER TO INSURANCE FRAUD?
- World Insurance Associates Acquires Robert Wilkens Insurance Agency.(INSURANCE ADVOCATE [PRODUCER NOTEBOOK])
- NY PIP: Post-Claim Policy Exhaustion Appears To Be Revived As a Defenset.([COURTSIDE])
- Insurance Federation of New York Elects Officers and Directors for 2021.
- There Can Never be a Fraud Too Small to Void a Policy.(ON MY RADAR)
- Slip, Fall and then some...([ON MY RADAR])
- 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])
- Insurance Recovery / Policyholder Champion Robin Cohen Launches New Law Firm.
- Catalyits Tech Impact.([GUEST ARTICLE] BIG I ASSOCIATION.)
- Igniting the Tech Change in a PostPandemic Workplace: How Companies Are Shifting Focus to Health and Safety as Turnover Accelerates.([WORKPLACE])
- 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.
- Lender Must TreatMortgagee with Utmost Good Faith.([ON MY RADAR])
- 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] INSURANCE ADVOCATE)
- NYS DFS Promulgates CE Law Changes.([IN THE NEWS])
- Agency Revolution is the Newest Company Partner of ACT.([IN THE ASSOCIATIONS])
- INSURANCE ADVOCATE.
- The Four Corners Rule Strikes Again.([ON MY RADAR])
- Robert Larocca Named Chief Strategic Relations Officer at SterlingRisk.
- Women In Insurance.
- New York Insurance Scholarship Foundation Selects Delgado And Fitzpatrick As 2021-2022 Scholars.([IN THE ASSOCIATIONS])
- TO EACH HIS OWN: E&S ROLE IN NEW YORK HOMEOWNER'S MARKET.([COVER])
- Matthew Hudnall Joins Preferred Mutual as Senior Vice President, Underwriting.
- New York Ranks as Largest Donor State in the Nation.
- How Do I Optimize My Instagram Business Profile For Better SEO?(MARKETING)
- False Estimate By "Consultant" Adopted by Insured Is Fraud.
- PIANY CIC and CISR Programs Online.
- A Fable of Fraud: ZIFL publishes this Story at Holiday Time Every Year. I Hope You like it Again.
- ELANY Holds 33rd Annual Members' Meeting; Breslin Delivers Keynote.([IN THE ASSOCIATIONS])
- AI: Digitization, Automation, AI Define Role of Human Agents in Insurance Industry.([TECH UPDATE])
- Applied Underwriters Receives UK OK: UK-Based Concept Special Risks Will Expand in US and Caribbean Markets Underwriting Extensive Vessel Classes.(IN THE COMPANIES)
- SUPPLY CHAIN PROBLEMS PLAGUE CONSTRUCTION FIRMS: Shortages lead to skyrocketing prices for wide range of building materials, adding to insured values across sector.([COVER] MATTHEW LF.RNER)
- Three Little Words Objective Technical Expertise.
- Consumer Reports Investigates Auto Insurance Telematics.(FEATURE)
- The impact of COVID-19 on diseases of despair.([GUEST ARTICLE])
- Peter Milnes Honored for Forty Years of Leadership and Service.([IN THE ASSOCIATIONS])
- Adrienne Harris Named Superintendent of the Department Of Financial Services.([IN THE NEWS])
- COVID-19: The 2021 Landscape for Surgeons.([TRENDS])
- Praedicat Launches Company Risk Score to Underwrite Liability Emerging Risk: Praedicat, the liability emerging risk analytics company, has launched a new Company Risk Score designed to vastly simplify the underwriting of complex emerging risks for liability insurance.([COMPANY NEWS])
- 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] INSURANCE ADVOCATE)
- Consumer Groups Call on FIO to Dig Deep into "Unfairness" in Auto Market.(COVER)
- Applied on Boards Former Partner Re Pros in New Aerospace Launch.
- THE RISE OF THE EXPONENTIAL UNDERWRITER: Leveraging a convergence of data, technology, and human capital to transform underwriting in insurance.([COVER] INSURANCE ADVOCATE)
- The Oft Unheard Skill: Listening: Seven Simple Ways to Turn Up the Volume on Leadership and Client Service.
- INSURANCE ADVOCATE [COVER].
- Proving Fraud by A Predetermined Treatment Protocol: RICO Action Against Medical Providers Raises Discovery Difficulties.([ON MY RADAR])
- Tax Hikes Will Hit Hard.([FOREWORD])
- Big I Presents Selective's Greg Murphy with Jeff Yates Lifetime Achievement Award.([IN THE ASSOCIATIONS])
- Courts Preclusion of Plaintiff's Expert Leads to Reversal of Defense Verdict: Robins v City of Long Beach, 2021 NY Slip Op 01277 (App. Div., 2d Dept, 3/03/21).([COURTSIDE])
- S&P: "Full Stack" Insurtech Enterprises Shine For 2021 US Insurtech to see More M&A, Heightened Investor Interest.
- Wearable Technology - Changing How We Work.
- Rinehart To Assume Greater Role At Preferred Mutual.
- The Biden Administrations Health Insurance Priorities.(GUEST OPINION)
- Risk Strategies Launches Brand Refresh as Acquisition Count Tops 100.([AGENCY NOTEBOOK])
- Americans Deemed "Too Risky" to Acquire Life Insurance are Getting a Second Look.([LIFE INSURANCE])
- FOXs Bill Hemmer to Address Big 'I' Members.([IN THE ASSOCIATIONS])
- Susan Preston Promoted to Vice President, Director of Program Development for Specialty Program Group, LLC.([IN THE NEWS])
- Insurance Leaders Need to Do These Three Things for Digital Transformation Success.([GUEST ARTICLE])
- Project Delays Add to Construction Insurance Costs.
- FIDUCIARY PROFESSIONS Legal Challenges and Solutions for Trustees of Trust-Owned Life Insurance: Active and careful management is required.([COVER])
- Judge Properly. Questioned Witness at Trial to Clarify Insurance Fraud Allegations: Plus A Second Case Review Regarding Water Damage.(ON MY RADAR)
- Promotions Announced at MSO.(COMPANY NEWS)
- Three Case Studies: Arson, a Jail Sentence and Fraud.([ON MY RADAR])
- Litigation Funding Dispute Gets Costly.
- New York Life Donates $200,000 for Asian Americans.([NEWS])
- 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.(LOOKING BACK)
- City Coming Back... On Foot? Taxi And Van Underwriting Issues Threatens New York City's "Return To Normal".([FOREWORD])
- New Policies will Help Transgender People Obtain Appropriate Treatment for Gender Dysphoria: NYS Office of Mental Health and Department of Financial Services Announce NY Insurance Carriers Complying with State Requirements to Provide Coverage for All Gender-Affirming Treatments.([MENTAL HEALTH] INSURANCE ADVOCATE)
- Do Insurers Get Their Moneys Worth from Fighting Fraud?([ON MY RADAR])
- Seven Minute Meeting: Liberty Mutual Targeted to Stop Insuring Fossil Fuel Expansion and Respect Indigenous Rights.(FOREWARD)
- Reg 187: Big "I" Victorious In Key Legal Battle UNCQNSTI TUTIONALLY VAGUE: Court sides with BIG "I" in Win for Agents and Brokers Onerous and Confusing Regulation 187's Controversial "Best Interest" Standard Called "Unconstitutionally Vague".(COVER)
- COVID-19 Vaccine & Employee Safety.([GUEST ARTICLE])
- Personalities and Personnel.(FOREWORD)
- The Insured has the Duty to Prove Coverage for Defense: Insured Obligated to Prove Exception to an Exclusion.([ON MY RADAR])
- Hub International Launches Complex Risk Practice.([PRODUCER NOTEBOOK])
- Big 'I' Praises Reintroduction of Main Street Tax Certainty Act.([IN THE ASSOCIATIONS])
- Hall of Shame Unmasks Winners for 2020: $80-billion pandemic of insurance fraud.
- Fmr DFS Head, Maria Vullo Looks to AG Post.([FOREWORD])
- Hudson Insurance Federation Formed by Industry Executives.
- Overreach Reaches across State Lines in (frankly) Incredible Series of Events as Insurer Files Federal Lawsuit Against California Regulators.
- Famous Lawyer's Assets Frozen by Federal Court: The settlements at issue stem from the crash of Lion Air Flight 610.... The plane was a 737 Max, the jet that Boeing subsequently grounded because of problems with its anti-stall software.([ON MY RADAR])
- Banks Standing In Foreclosure Actions Just Got Easier.
- Insurance Leader Will Head International Foundation To Address "Human Ecology".(INSURANCE ADVOCATE [IN THE NEWS])
- General Brokers' Review.
- Big 'I' Leaders Among Top D.C. Lobbyists.
- Specialty Insurer and Reinsurer SiriusPoint Launches with Over $3bn in Capital.([IN THE NEWS])
- New York Insurance Association Elects 2021 Officers and Board of Directors.
- Mary, this time its about you.([FOREWORD])
- Invest[TM] Appoints Juan Padron as Board Chair.([IN THE ASSOCIATIONS])
- Independent Brokers Association Holds Twentieth Annual Dinner President Falk Says Brokers Must Be Alert for All New Developments; Former Superintendent Stoddard Presents Association Gift to Locke.
- In Surfside Ruins, Stark Reminders of Board Duties.(GUEST OPINION)
- Digital Safety Basics How to secure your cyber identity.(CYBERSECURITY FOCUS)
- AMWINS Chalks Up Number 52.([AGENCY NOTEBOOK])
- It''s All About Your Bottom-Line and Our Servicing.([GUEST OPINION])
- MSO Announces Partnership with Optima Siu.
- New High, New Low: Insurance and Cannabis Meet in the Middle.(GUEST OPINION)
- THE CHANGING INSURANCE LANDSCAPE AND ADVISORY ROLE OF THE BROKER: RESPONDING TO CUSTOMER NEEDS IN LIGHT OF COVID-19 AND GROWING CYBER DISRUPTIONS.([COVER])
- Big 'I' Presents Bill Harrison with Woodworth Memorial Award.
- Major Trade Associations Announce Partnership to Stem Towing & Staged Accident Fraud.([IN THE ASSOCIATIONS])