Insurance Advocate - 2022
- John F. Finston Appointed Executive Deputy Superintendent of the Insurance Division at the NYS Dept of Financial Services.([IN THE COMPANIES] INSURANCE ADVOCATE)
- 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.([COVER])
- ShelterPoint Future Points Upward.([FOREWORD])
- Hagerty launches Digital Labs initiative for the automotive enthusiast industry.([IN THE ASSOCIATION])
- 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] INSURANCE ADVOCATE)
- How the Insurance Industry Can Solve our Nationwide Mold Problem.(GUEST ARTICLE)
- Adrienne Harris.([FOREWORD] EDITOR & PUBLISHER)
- Wilkens elected PIANJ president.([IN THE ASSOCIATIONS])
- Insurance Federation of New York, Inc. Will Present 2022 Free Enterprise Award To Rod Fox, Mary Lanning Public Service Award To Maurice "Hank" Greenberg.
- New York Court Slaps Insurers Who Subrogated Against Their Own Insureds.
- IFNY FREE ENTERPRISE AWARD TO STEVE MENZIES MARY LANNING PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD TO WILLIAM H. FRAZIER AT MARCH 31ST FETE.(COVER)
- PAID FAMILY LEAVE: Gaining Traction in New York and Beyond.([COVER])
- Asbestos Plaintiffs Ran Out of Viable Insurers.(ON MY RADAR)
- AMERICAN TRANSIT INSURANCE COMPANY RESOLVES SIGNIFICANT LAWSUIT AGAINST HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS: Suit Alleged Fraudulent and Other Improper Treatment and Billing Practices.(COVER)
- Insurer Proactive Against Fraud: CIGNA Obtains $14,371,384.95 Judgment Against Fraudulent Health Care Provider.(ON MY RADAR)
- Big 'I' Professional Liability Launches New Risk Management Website.([IN THE ASSOCIATIONS])
- Help: My House is Falling Into the Sea: True Crime Story of Insurance Fraud Number 17.(ON MY RADAR)
- US life insurance premiums exceed $200B for 1st time ever in 2021: U.S. life insurers saw their yearly direct life insurance premiums surpass $200 billion for the first time in history in 2021, according to an S&P Global Market Intelligence analysis of annual statutory statements.([ANALYSIS])
- NAIC Passes Pet Insurance Model Act.
- InsurTech NY Opens Applications for its Third Accelerator Cohort.([IN THE COMPANIES])
- Actuaries: Some Estimates of Pandemic-Related Life Expectancy Changes Can Be Misleading.(ACTUARIAL)
- HDI Global Leverages Verisks Mozart Form Composer[R] to Streamline Forms Management.([IN THE ASSOCIATION] INSURANCE ADVOCATE)
- Finseca and NAILBA have Officially Merged.([IN THE ASSOCIATION])
- Big "I" President Rusbuldt to be Succeeded by Symington.(IN THE ASSOCIATIONS)
- Chutzpah: Murder for Insurance Money Life Sentences Affirmed: INSURANCE FRAUD IS A VIOLENT CRIME.([ON MY RADAR])
- Varney Insurance Opens New York Office and Appoints Patrick Yannotta as Senior Vice President.([NEWS] INSURANCE ADVOCATE)
- You Can't Carry Electricity in a Bucket.([GUEST OPINION])
- NAIC Releases In-Depth 2021 Property/Casualty Market Share Data Report.([IN THE ASSOCIATIONS])
- Liars Never Prosper No Coverage for Loss at Unidentified Property.(BARRY ZALMA [ON MY RADAR])
- Big T and Future One Release 2022 Agency Universe Findings.([IN THE ASSOCIATIONS])
- 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.
- Big T and Reagan Consulting Release 2022 Best Practices Study Results.([FOREWORD] STEVE ACUNTO, EDITOR & PUBLISHER)
- Jewelers Mutual[R] Group Establishes New Jewelry Industry Council.
- NEW YORK'S JOHN COSTELLO ELECTED TO CHAIRMANSHIP OF BIG "I" FOR 2022-23.
- Adrienne A. Harris: Transcript of the Testimony Delivered to the Legislative Fiscal Committees on the State Budget Health on February 8, 2022.(COVER)
- Hagerty Acquires Broad Arrow Group.([IN THE COMPANIES])
- Estoppel Cannot Create Insurance Coverage: Lack of Bodily Injury, Personal Injury or Occurrence Bars Coverage.([ON MY RADAR])
- NCCI Announces 2021 Workers Compensation Performance Metrics.([IN THE ASSOCIATION])
- HDI Global Leverages Verisk's Mozart Form Composer[R] to Streamline Forms Management.([IN THE COMPANIES] INSURANCE ADVOCATE)
- Test, Jab, Boost, Repeat.(JANE M. ORIENT, M.D. [GUEST OPINION])
- Verisk Expands Weather Intelligence.([IN THE COMPANIES] INSURANCE ADVOCATE)
- As we go to Press...([FOREWORD] EDITOR & PUBLISHER)
- 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.(ON MY RADAR)
- IFNY ELECTS HOWARD MILLS PRESIDENT Former State Assemblyman and Superintendent of Insurance succeeds Nick Pearson.([COVER] INSURANCE ADVOCATE)
- World Insurance Associates Launches World Private Client Group.
- Big 'I' Names Whitnee Dillard New Invest[TM] Executive Director.([IN THE ASSOCIATION])
- FIVE THINGS THAT MAY SURPRISE YOU ABOUT SHELTERPOINT IN HONOR OF THEIR 50TH ANNIVERSARY.
- Of Fevers and Thermometers: The Coming Florida Insurance Market Gets the Shivers.([EDITORIAL])
- Michael A. Zarcone Elected Chair of LICONY.
- Public Policy & No Insurance Defeats Negligence Claim.(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. HERE'S AN EXCERPT FROM.([LOOKING BACK] INSURANCE ADVOCATE)
- Report: Is the Insurance Talent Gap Real?(REPORTS)
- No Bad Faith Effective, Professional Arson Investigation Defeats Claims of Bad Faith.([ON MY RADAR])
- Report: The effects of inflation on insurance companies: Moody's has drawn-up a report detailing several scenarios that may very well accompany the prolonged rise in consumer prices denting profits and causing ill side-effects.(B. MUSTO [REPORT])
- Who Defines Disinformation?([GUIST OPINION])
- The American College Of Financial Services Appoints New Officers, Members To Board Of Trustees.([IN THE ASSOCIATIONS] INSURANCE ADVOCATE)
- Hospital Imprisons Patients for Profit.([ON MY RADAR])
- February 2022: The New Comprehensive Insurance Disclosure Act.(GUEST COLUMN)
- KEY FINDINGS FROM THE UPDATE INCLUDE.
- Imua Now Offering Members All Access To Remote Education.([IN THE ASSOCIATIONS])
- Katherine Papa Elected To Board Of National Association Of Public Insurance Adjusters (Napia).([IN THE ASSOCIATIONS] INSURANCE ADVOCATE)
- Small Fraud Defeats Claim Withdrawal of fraudulent portion of claim does not eliminate fraud.([ON MY RADAR])
- Adrienne A. Harris Confirmed to Lead the New York State Department of Financial Services.([COVER] INSURANCE ADVOCATE)
- IBANY Awards Michael Chang 2021 Insurance Person of the Year.([IN THE ASSOCIATIONS] 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. HERE'S AN EXCERPT FROM.([LOOKING BACK] INSURANCE ADVOCATE)
- Slate Of Officers and Board Members Announced at IMUAs 91st Annual Meeting.([IN THE ASSOCIATION])
- Workers Comp Execs Identify Major Concerns.([WC FOCUS] INSURANCE ADVOCATE)
- Jewelers Mutual[R] Group Adds New Member to Board of Directors.
- PIANJ elects four to board of directors, officers for 2022-23.([IN THE ASSOCIATIONS])
- Never Rely on a Certificate of Insurance A Certificate Conferred No Rights Upon the Holder.([ON MY RADAR] BARRY ZALMA)
- PIANY installs 2022-23 officers and elects directors.
- Of Signatures and Branding.([FOREWORD] STEVE ACUNTO, EDITOR & PUBLISHER)
- Work Works.([FOREWORD] STEVE ACUNTO, EDITOR & PUBLISHER)
- Mary Lanning Honored.([FEATURE] INSURANCE ADVOCATE)
- New Alliance Unites Insurance Agencies Across the Southeast.
- Michael F. Iacangelo & Company Inc. Acquired.
- Insurer Awarded Damages For Fraud: Insured's Suit for Fire Insurance Benefits Defeated by Qui Tarn Claim by Insurer.([ON MY RADAR])
- Fraudulent Claim Voids Policy Making a Claim for Loss to Personal Property Not Damaged is Fraud.([ON MY RADAR] BARRY ZALMA)
- World Insurance Associates Expands New York State Business with the Acquisition of Gerard P. Smith Insurance Agency.([IN THE COMPANIES])
- Verisk Expands Weather Intelligence.([IN THE ASSOCIATION] INSURANCE ADVOCATE)
- Go Directly to Jail, Do Not Pass Go: Chutzpah: Convicted of Insurance Fraud Appeals to Avoid Going to Jail.(ON MY RADAR)
- Independent agents again shown to place the majority of all property-casualty insurance written in the U.S..(La Plus ca change)
- ELANY Holds 34th Annual Members Meeting; Panel Looks at Crypto and E&S Market.([IN THE ASSOCIATION])
- Clarifying Misunderstanding of Life Expectancy and COVID-19.(THE ACTUARIAL REPORT)
- Applied Underwriters Partners with Health Outlook to Introduce Album Life Assurance.
- The Great Resignations Impact on Local Government: Scores of workers are quitting and governments are scrambling to adapt.(GUEST ARTICLE)