AIR said the estimate reflects losses to property and contents; direct business interruption; and additional living expenses for residential, mobile home, commercial and auto exposures. They do not in
Despite heavy spending by insurance interests, Washington State voters yesterday approved a measure by a 14 percentage point margin that eases requirements for filing bad faith actions against carrier
According to FEMA, the agency has activated its Regional Response Coordination Center in Thomasville, Georgia and is coordinating with federal, state, and local governments to identify resources and
According to the office of Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler, Progressive Classic Insurance Co. and Progressive Northwestern Insurance Co. used unapproved rates to calculate premiums for
Celent, a Boston-based research group, projects that online insurance sales will double by 2011, and that the Web will play a major role in most personal insurance purchases across auto, life and heal
Getting business and IT decision-makers to understand both the meaning of IT architecture and its benefits--as well as to fund these initiatives--is an ongoing challenge. Aligning different constituenci
When you drink and drive,death is no accident, court rules Late one night, a driver in West Virginia lost control of his vehicle and crashed into the back of a tractor trailer that was parked eight feet off the edge of the highway. The driver was not
In an environment where competition drives ever more sophisticated functionality and customer expectations are increasing, insurers are deploying enhanced features to help draw traffic to their Web si
At home, Greg Oberland, the CIO and senior vice president of information systems at Northwestern Mutual, experiments with digital photography, listens to music on a Nano iPod (recently purchasing a do
Wilson is a board member of the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, Des Plaines, Ill. He has been active in efforts to lobby for the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act and, generally, to