Jack Salzwedel

• J.D. Power Finds Majority Get Auto Insurance Quote Online

  By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  June 2, 2011

  The majority of first time auto insurance buyers now turn to the internet for a quote, bypassing traditional local agents or call centers, a J.D. Power and Associates report says.

• American Family Increases Policyholder Equity By $606M

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  March 3, 2011

  American Family Insurance Group said storm and catastrophe losses in 2010 were $270 million higher than expected but the mutual company managed to increase policyholder equity $605.6 million during the year.

• Defund FIO study

  By Ted Besesparis  |  March 1, 2011

  Last year when Congress created the Federal Insurance Office (FIO), it ordered a broad study of insurance regulation in the United States—but it assigned the task of conducting that study to the FIO that it had just created. This creates an ideological conflict of interest.

• American Family’s Salzwedel to Become Chairman, CEO

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  February 9, 2011

  American Family Mutual Insurance Company Chief Operating Officer Jack Salzwedel will become the Madison, Wisc.-based insurer’s chairman and chief executive late this year.