Insurance Advocate - page 5
- The Necessary Boldness of the Entrepreneur.
- ELANY Holds 34th Annual Members Meeting; Panel Looks at Crypto and E&S Market.([IN THE ASSOCIATION])
- PIANY applauds the governor for signing two PIA-priority bills into law: parametric insurance and expansion of C-MAP.(In The Associations)
- 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])
- Hanwha Life Completes Acquisition of U.S.-Based Velocity Clearing, LLC, Becoming the First Korean Insurer to Signal a Bold Expansion into North American Capital Markets.
- How Not to Get Sued by Your Employees in 2019.
- Milestones.
- The Challenge of Creating Trust in the Workers' Compensation Medical System.(Workers' Comp)
- Dickson retires.
- Affinity Insurance Brokerage: A Primer on Compensation to Unlicensed Parties.
- IMUA Announces 2020 Board Election Results.
- Bad choice, J.M.
- Applied Underwriters Petitions NJ Regulators for Confirmation of Captive Reinsurance and its Use in its Widely Accepted Workers' Compensation Format: Petition Would Protect NJ Businesses and Employees Action Holds Potential Implications for Reinsurers, Captives Nationwide.
- Mangione case rattles industry leaders.(Foreword)
- NYIA Regulatory Symposium Looks at Insuring 'Environment'.
- 'Open and obvious' condition negates trip and fall claim.
- Swiss Re selects Secure Computing's Webwasher for digital security.
- Epidemics, Fear and Denial: How Every American Is Threatened.
- World Insurance Associates Expands New York State Business with the Acquisition of Gerard P. Smith Insurance Agency.([IN THE COMPANIES])
- Chris Wallace to Host Big 'T' Legislative Conference.
- PIANY Sets Metro Rap; Supt. Gets GFIN to NY; Big I Applauds Action.
- Small Commercial Insurance: Bigger, More Varied and More Specialized: Changes Driven by New Technology and Increased Carrier Appetite.
- Pedestrian intentionally struck by motorist is not entitled to UM benefits, but does get PIP benefits.
- Industry sends mixes messages to treasury on fed regulation.
- Educating Congress: industry seeks to clear up misinterpretations among legislators regarding McCarran-Ferguson Limited antitrust-exemption.
- 12 days of Christmas.
- Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited.
- Landowner not obligated to warn against dangers on adjacent property.
- 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.
- Horizon, state government unveil HC plan for children.
- Bill seeks to protect HC professionals' participation in managed care plans.
- Tobias Starts Initiative to Get No-Fault Law on '96 Calif. Ballot.
- ALIENT AGENT: CLIENT/AGENT: THE NEW "SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP" DECISION.
- Vullo confirmed superintendant of NYDFS.
- Insurer Need Not Provide Rationale for Provider EUO Demand: Dynamic Balance Acupuncture, P.C. v State Farm Ins.
- Physicians Ask Senate Finance to Address Kickbacks, Other Factors Driving Up Drug Costs.
- Hagerty Acquires Broad Arrow Group.([IN THE COMPANIES])
- Making Connections in a Connected World.
- 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.
- Defects in legislation.
- Clarifying Misunderstanding of Life Expectancy and COVID-19.(THE ACTUARIAL REPORT)
- Despite Underwriting Loss, RRGs Report Financially Stable Results in Second Quarter 2019.
- SUM Coverage Is Offset By Recovery From Tortfeasor.
- INSURANCE REGULATION AT A CROSS ROADS: LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE LAST TEN YEARS.
- Jacques Bonneau Appointed President and Ceo of Partner Re.
- The Great Resignations Impact on Local Government: Scores of workers are quitting and governments are scrambling to adapt.(GUEST ARTICLE)
- Bill to punish misrepresentation of garaging, driving location passes assembly.
- New Survey Reveals How Independent Insurance Agents Are Adapting to the Hard Market.
- I.I.I. sees more uninsured drivers as financial hardships loom.
- Courting Gens X and Y.
- O'Brien & Gere will relocate 300 employees to downtown Syracuse.
- Tower Group buys balance of CastlePoint in $490m deal.
- Hearings across N.Y. State: "unsettled" life settlement business is focus of NYSID Hearings.
- IBANY Names Rubin Alspector, Insurance Person of the Year.
- Cuomo announces more doc ranking agreements, legislation.
- WC board members allowed to teach.
- Three Case Studies: Arson, a Jail Sentence and Fraud.([ON MY RADAR])
- The Times, They Are a Changin'.
- You Can't Carry Electricity in a Bucket.([GUEST OPINION])
- Wilkens elected PIANJ president.([IN THE ASSOCIATIONS])
- NY Takesa Stand Against Roofing Scams.
- Aquiline Announces Agreement to Acquire Relation Insurance Services.
- LICONY Celebrates 51st Anniversary.
- No Bad Faith Effective, Professional Arson Investigation Defeats Claims of Bad Faith.([ON MY RADAR])
- "I Can't Get No... " or Can I?
- New IMUA Officers & Board Members Elected.([IN THE ASSOCIATIONS] INSURANCE ADVOCATE)
- Geraldine DelPrete Named President of Programs at Sterling Risk.
- New York Life Donates $200,000 for Asian Americans.([NEWS])
- Big Brother And Everybody Else.
- Insurance Federation of New York, Inc. Will Present 2022 Free Enterprise Award To Rod Fox, Mary Lanning Public Service Award To Maurice "Hank" Greenberg.
- Governor Signs Bill That Will Increase Timeframe for Lost Policy Searches: Measure brings New York into conformance with structure used by the rest of the country.
- Prior Written Notice Required for Suit Against City for Icy Sidewalk injury: Puzhayeva v City of New York.
- Litigation Funding Dispute Gets Costly.
- Hospital Imprisons Patients for Profit.([ON MY RADAR])
- Prechtl Elected Chair of New York Insurance Association.
- Accidents Are No Accident.
- Insurance Recovery / Policyholder Champion Robin Cohen Launches New Law Firm.
- Largest Insurance Convention in CT on the Horizon.
- Deregulate New York: Winners Reveal Albany Obstacles.
- Advising an Insurer of a Claim When Insurance Obtained by Fraud is a Crime: Conviction Affirmed Against the best Wishes of the Appellate Court.
- IIABNY Cites Dr.Emek.
- Policy definition of 'total disability' not ambiguous.
- Congress targets McCarran-Ferguson.
- Deloitte: More Risks On More Fronts: Credit Risk, ESG and Cybersecurity Top Concerns for Financial Institutions.
- No Coverage for Intentional Acts.(On My Radar)
- NJYIP honors McManigal with Young Insurance Professional of the Year award.
- HDI Global Leverages Verisk's Mozart Form Composer[R] to Streamline Forms Management.([IN THE COMPANIES] INSURANCE ADVOCATE)
- 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)
- ShelterPoint Future Points Upward.([FOREWORD])
- PIANY Succeeds In Winning Right For Producers To Access CLUE Data Base.
- Insurance Legion of Shame.
- Remembering Fmr. Ny Supt of Insurance, Albert Lewis.([FOREWORD])
- Rinehart To Assume Greater Role At Preferred Mutual.
- '...BUT I WOULDN'T WANT TO LIVE THERE'.
- S&P Market Intelligence releases its annual 2020 Insurance M&A Outlook Analysis.
- Rough Note.(Foreword)
- If You Do the Crime You Must Do the Time: Guilty Of Disability Fraud.
- It Doesn't Pay to Cheat Medicare.(On My Radar)
- 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.
- The red flag that got it right: the blame game continues as consistently as market volatility worries the various business sectors, from plumbers to publishers.
- Finseca's 2024 Hall of Fame Inductees Announced.
- Applied Underwriters Announces Formation of Applied Specialty Underwriters, Names Christopher Day President of the New Company.([IN THE NEWS])
- The world of social media.
- Regulation Acceleration: Deloitte Report Hits Key Areas of Concentration For Insurers.
- Insurance marketing featuring Facebooks new feature.
- New York Loses More Population.(Foreword)
- Insurance Professionals Honored with PIANY Scholarships.
- Liars Never Prosper No Coverage for Loss at Unidentified Property.(BARRY ZALMA [ON MY RADAR])
- Now what? As celebration over WC legislation wanes, industry wonders how it will be implemented and regulated.
- Remembering a Friend ...
- 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.
- Amid Uncertainty, Insurance Brokerage Firms Remain Resilient, Optimistic: Agents, Brokers a 'Shining Star' in First Half of 2020, Reports Reagan Consulting.
- Mother, Don't Let Your Child Become an Adjuster in Washington State: Statute Makes Individual Adjuster Liable for Tort of Bad Faith.
- PAID FAMILY LEAVE: Gaining Traction in New York and Beyond.([COVER])
- I'm Not a Carjacker--I was Only Helping an Insurance Fraud.
- Denial's Use of Non-Statutory Language Does Not Make it Invalid: Jason Loid v Merchants Preferred Insurance Company.
- Independent agents again shown to place the majority of all property-casualty insurance written in the U.S..(La Plus ca change)
- Insurer Proactive Against Fraud: CIGNA Obtains $14,371,384.95 Judgment Against Fraudulent Health Care Provider.(ON MY RADAR)
- Tax credits for health insurance.
- Small Frauds Cost Insurers the Most.(On My Radar)
- NYPIUA permanent.
- When parents have joint custody, child is deemed member if both parents' households for auto coverage.
- Greenberg wants a new deal for AIG.
- Dinallo's regulatory vision for insurance and beyond: N.Y. Insurance Dept. Superintendent discusses broker compensation, new financial services commission, and the future of regulation in N.Y.
- High Marx.
- Supreme Court clears up FCRA issues in credit scoring case.
- RIMS calls for regulation governing broker compensation.
- Hurrah! We came in fourth place!
- The faces of insurance in the New York Legislature: Part II: Joseph D. Morelle, Assembly Insurance Committee Chairman, emphasizes goodwill and building trust.
- Bill would increase awareness of Child Health. Plus.
- Important New Book on the Market: Insurance Law for Common Interest Communities: Condominiums, Cooperatives And Homeowners Associations.
- New York Life International (NYLI).
- Seward seeks to eliminate derivative transactions law sunset.
- Stimuli.
- Letters.
- Car dealer has no liability for sale to elderly customer who causes accident.
- The "earth movement exclusion".
- Court of Appeals disallows FOIL exemption in redlining" Case.
- 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....
- Eager for Their Inheritance: Gen Xers and millennials are ready to carry the collectible-car torch.
- ACT Releases Agency Cyber Guide 3.0.
- Ivans Issues Annual Agency-Carrier Connectivity Trends Report.(Agencies)
- STUDY: 60% of DRIVERS Who Use MARIJUANA in Legal States Drive UNDER THE INFLUENCE: Based On A Survey Of 811 Drivers Who Use Marijuana In 10 Recreational States And Washington, D.C.
- Higgins Initiative Takes Hold AGENTS: LET'S GET IT 'OUT THERE' NOW.
- The impact of COVID-19 on diseases of despair.([GUEST ARTICLE])
- PIANY Announces Award Recipients at this Year's MetroRAP.
- Insurance Leaders Need to Do These Three Things for Digital Transformation Success.([GUEST ARTICLE])
- AMWINS Chalks Up Number 52.([AGENCY NOTEBOOK])
- Missouri Court Asked By Insurers To Block Move By Dept. To Implement W.C. ARP Depopulation Plan.
- Sands Point Risk Launches MGA Platform with FlagshipTransactionLiability Practice.
- White House Policy Advisor On Health Care Tells PIA Conference Small Business Will Not Be Burdened.
- Tokio Marine Holdings Establishes New IR/SR Desk in NYC.
- Playing, Political Games Does Not Improve Patient Care.
- It''s All About Your Bottom-Line and Our Servicing.([GUEST OPINION])
- A Binder is an Insurance Contract: Once Coverage is Bound Cancellation Requires Compliance with Statutory Requirements.
- New High, New Low: Insurance and Cannabis Meet in the Middle.(GUEST OPINION)
- Big 'I' Names Whitnee Dillard New Invest[TM] Executive Director.([IN THE ASSOCIATION])
- Americans Deemed "Too Risky" to Acquire Life Insurance are Getting a Second Look.([LIFE INSURANCE])
- 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])
- 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])
- The Morality of Life and Death and Doctors.
- Court Grants PIANY and Big I NY Request in NYDFS Regulation 187 challenge.
- Judge Richard Brown: Insurance Crime Fighter.
- HOLD STILL This Won't Hurt a Bit! 116th Congress Tries Healthcare Cures as Rhetorical Fever Soars.
- Risk Strategies Launches Brand Refresh as Acquisition Count Tops 100.([AGENCY NOTEBOOK])
- MSO Announces Partnership with Optima Siu.
- Firearm Injuries Catching Up To Motor Vehicle Crashes As Leading Cause Of Injury Death.
- Insurance Criminals are Relentless Even After They are Jailed: Court Refuses to Allow Pro Se Plaintiff to Annoy Court.
- Residence Premises Requires the Insured to Live in Residence.(On My Radar)
- Statutes of Limitations.
- Trial Court Incorrectly Refused Insurer's Demand for EUO.(On My Radar)
- Amend and Extend: National Flood Insurance Program Reauthorization as an Opportunity for Reform.
- What Happens When Disability Laws Conflict with Company Policy?
- Clinton Health Care Reform Is Criticized For Its Limit On Free Choice By Business.
- Insurance Policies Must Be Read as They are Written: 'Arise out of ' or 'Relate in Any Way'.
- Clinton Health Reform Proposal Fraught With Multiple Imponderables, CPCU Seminar Is Told.
- Garamendi Introduces Bill to Bolster Oversight of Nations Financial System.([REGULATORY NEWS])
- Teleworking as the 'New Normal' Presents Challenges for Employers.
- S&P P/C Least Impacted.
- Study Claims Medical Savings Accounts Could Reduce Health Care Costs $558b In 5 Years.
- Steinberg Recipient Of Free Enterprise Award Of Insurance Federation Of N.Y.
- Berkshire Offering Commercial Coverage in NJ.
- 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])
- Punitive Damages.
- Safe Driving Stats By States.
- Buffalo, N.Y.-based Meritain Health, Inc, a provider of employee health benefit services.
- "No-prejudice rule" abolished.
- Zurich announces enhanced D&O coverage for middle market cos.
- Maine Court Rules Insurers Outside W.C. Residual Market Not Subject To Deficit Charge.
- VIEWS FROM THE BOTTOM.
- In Memoriam.
- Verisk Expands Weather Intelligence.([IN THE ASSOCIATION] INSURANCE ADVOCATE)
- Overreach Reaches across State Lines in (frankly) Incredible Series of Events as Insurer Files Federal Lawsuit Against California Regulators.
- Curiale Rejects Travelers' Filing For 20% Hike In L.I. Homeowners Rates; Renewal Notices Had Been Sent.
- Banks Standing In Foreclosure Actions Just Got Easier.
- Propaganda, Pandering, and Politics.
- Forbes Advisor Unveils First-Ever Best Life Insurance Companies Awards.
- Harris to Receive Professional Agent of the Year from PIANJ.
- Failure to Advise Insurer of Potential Claim Defeats Coverage: Lawyer Must Report All 'Potential' Claims of Malpractice When Applying for E&O Insurance.