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- The spillover: How the mess in the Gulf will wash up onto insurers
- Into the Mix.
- As The Legislature Breaks, Insurers Uncertain of Achieving any Needed Changes
- Circular 20: Good, Bad, or Ugly? Why should a client-focused industry need regulations to require good customer service?
- Auto Insurers Fail to Meet Non- Cooperation Disclaimer Standard
- On Arks and Lifeboats
- Save My Fire Station, Save My House
- Columns
- Around New York
- Courtside
- Crackdown
- Exposures & Coverages
- Foreword
- Insurance News Now
- Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New York and Council of Insurance Brokers of Greater New York File Legal Action to Stop Unfair Producer Compensation Transparency Regulation
- At Least One-Third of Renters Uninsured
- Drywall Causing Insurance Pain
- Fairfax and Zenith National Insurance to Merge
- Monkey Stress Claim Denied
- New York State Insurance Department: Investigators Wanted
- P/C Insights: Automation
- Texting and Talking While Driving: A National Concern
- Topics
- Auto Insurance
- Crackdown (Fraud)
- DBL/Disability
- Excess/Surplus
- Legal Issues
- Life & Health
- Professional Liability
- Workers Compensation
- Past Issues
- 2009
- December 14, 2009
- New York Producers Groups Mount Last Ditch Battle Opposing Producers Compensation Disclosure Regulation
- A Holiday Wish List
- Ex-Insurance Agent in Queens Arrested for Embezzling Funds
- New York Department Floats a Discussion Draft of Reg. 68
- B.I. Claimant has no Claim against Insurer for Failing to Notify Her of Right to Buy Spousal Coverage
- Employee Theft Strikes Home
- November 30, 2009
- Capital: Finding the way forward
- Are You Kidding?
- On the Level
- At last! Comprehensive Life Settlement Legislation in New York
- Q&A TODAY with Doug Head, L.I.S.A. President
- If Lease Requires Landlord to be Additional Insured, CGL Policy Automatically Makes It So
- October 26, 2009
- Wish List: REG. 68 What the Industry Wants.
- Awkward Moment
- Identity Theft can Steal from a Companys Bottom Line
- QB Jim Kelly and the Fine Print
- Thomas E. Workman is the recipient of the Round Table of New Yorks 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award.
- Case Marked off Calendar for More Than One Year Requires Reasonable Excuse and Explanation of Merits
- Fiduciary Liability: An Overlooked Exposure
- NYSIF Announces String of Arrests with $600K Price Tag
- October 12, 2009
- MedSave
- Foreword
- Wrynn Takes Control of NYSID
- Professional Agents Help Clients Navigate the Health Care Process
- Central NY Contractor Hit with Workers Comp Fraud Charges
- Common Stairway of Commercial Building is included in additional Insureds Liability Coverage
- September 28, 2009
- September 14, 2009
- Cover Story
- Right Distance
- Salt
- Using False Address on Insurance Application Voids Right to Collect No-Fault Benefits
- Honda Civic is Burglar's Choice
- Imagemaker C. Clancy
- August 17, 2009
- Brooks Brief Term Marked By Active Agenda
- Electronic Data Liability
- Keeping Pace
- MSO Sets Growth as Agents, Insurers Seek Marketing Advantages
- The Real Heart of the STOLI Scandal
- Wrynn, In.
- July 13, 2009
- Darwin at 200: a valuable context
- On Practicing and Preaching
- Specialized RV Coverages and Considerations
- Speed Sells; Some News from Happy Dale Sanitarium; and from Atlantic City
- Stealth Rebating Perils Deepen
- Struggle for Control of the State Senate May Work to Prevent Needed Insurance Legislation
- Revisting a Renewed Revitalized DCAP
- June 15, 2009
- June 1, 2009
- Focus: New Yorks Liquidation Bureau and its Processes
- Garden Variety
- Interview: 9 Questions for Jim Wrynn
- Uncovering Stealth Rebates
- May 18, 2009
- Foreword
- Around New York
- In The Associations
- Face To Face
- Cover
- On The Level
- New Yorks Liquidation Bureau and its Processes - A Critical Analysis Part I of II
- May 4, 2009
- April 20, 2009
- CANCELLATION FOR NON PAYMENT: New Developments Affect Agents and Brokers
- Insuring Computer Systems
- Setting Responsibility
- Some Optimism
- The Budget is Done The Insurance Industry Struggles to Adapt
- April 6, 2009
- Awake
- Department Reissues Life Settlement Bill
- Downtrend: Lead us not into temptation
- NYSID Offers Anti-rebating and Inducement Guidance for Brokers and Agents
- Shock and Awe: Schools Internet Liability
- March 23, 2009
- January 26, 2009
- June 22, 2010
- PIANJ-NY Joint Conference Trumps Records as estimated 2,000 Attend
- E Pluribus
- Prior Approval for Health Insurance Rates is a Reality in New York Again!
- Investigators Hip to Felon; She Repays $34,000
- Statute of Limitations - Rental Cars
- Battle Fronts: Fighting Producer Compensation Disclosure on All Fronts
- Everyone is a Winner
- June 7, 2010
- Solving the BI Coinsurance Problem
- On the Boardwalk
- PIANY Drafted Primary Disclosure Language Receives Formal Approval of NYSID
- NYSIF: Manhattan Temp Agency Owner Hit with $25M Comp Fraud
- NICB REPORT: Buffalo Niagara Falls Metro Area Has Highest Vehicle Theft Rate In State, Ithaca, Lowest
- Lessons to be learned about hurricane season
- I Got a Rock
- Defending Insured Without a Reservation of Rights Leads to Coverage by Estoppel
- May 24, 2010
- The Plot Thickens: Producer Compensation Disclosure
- Kaplan Meier Curve
- Insurance Legislation Starting To Move In Albany
- Second Circuit Qualifies Scope of Right to Select Independent Counsel
- Use of Race-Modified Car Comes Under ExclusionEven Though .
- Insurance Producers Can Refuse to Accept Cash Premium Payments Even if an Insured May Be Adversely Impacted
- Does My Butt Look Fat in This Policy?
- The Future of Your Agency Depends Upon
- May 5, 2010
- DETERMINED
- A Great Business
- Assembly Insurance Chair Puts New York in the Game on Credit Default Swaps
- It is Balloon!
- Appraisal--New York Legislature Closes a Gap
- A Promising Future
- Despite Insurers Lack of Founded Belief in Fraudulent Incorporation, EUONo-Show Results in Suit Dismissal
- April 19, 2010
- More Than 300 Hear Utica Firsts Richard Zick Address Soft Market and Compensation Disclosure During PIANY Annual LI Rap
- First Cardinal Wins Landmark Lawsuit After Two Year Litigation
- 2009 P/C Results Show Strong But Incomplete Recovery
- The Standard Fire PolicyA Phoenix Arising From The Ashes?
- "This is dog food, Mr. Kramden!
- Freedom of Information Requests
- Cant See the Forecast for the Trees
- April 5, 2010
- Joseph DioGuardi Banks Bid for New Yorks Senate Seat on Financial Strengths, Experience
- The Candidates
- New York Insurers May Be Hit Again Assembly Proposes Merger of Banking and Insurance Departments
- Questions and Answers About Disaster
- Can you say Irony?
- Spring is here, finalmente!
- Trusting Plaintiffs Attorney to Vacate a Default Proves to be a Costly Mistake
- March 22, 2010
- Interview: Assembly Chair Morelle
- Ad majorem
- PIANY Sets Complementary Strategy to Countenance Producer Disclosure Regulation
- Post-Termination Commissions and Renewals: Who Has to Pay What to Whom?
- New York Accident Involving NJ Car Gets PIP Applying NJ Rules
- Getting Them in the Door - Yours!!
- March 8, 2010
- RESET The Once and future New York Insurance Stock Exchange
- NYSIF Announces 154 Arrests, $16.6M Anti-Fraud Results
- Youre a WHAT?
- Once again, Contingent Commissions are Getting a Lot of Ink
- NYSID Nails Six Medical Providers; State reimbursed $2.4 million
- More Domotor Damage: Blanket Denial Means Claimant Can Sue Without Submitting Bills First
- February 22, 2010
- IIABNY Votes to Hit Department with Lawsuit Targeting Producer Compensation Regulation
- Now were really mad
- Dept. Promulgates Producer Compensation Disclosure Reg.
- Now for the PR Challenge of Your Career
- Staged Accidents Fuel No-Fault Fraud Dramatically
- Defamation Claim Against Insurer Based on Conclusion That Accident Was Staged, Fails
- February 8, 2010
- Of Heroes and a Coward
- Proposed Budget Slams Insurers Again
- NYIA: Fraudsters Drive Need for No-Fault Reform
- Buy local
- Medical Malpractice Reform: Matters of Life & Dea(r)th for Docs in Med Mal Debate
- Once Again, Insurer is Criticized for Claims Practices: It "Borders on Impropriety" to Selectively Cite Old, Obsolete Arb Decisions
- Q&A TODAY with Bill Bonds, President, Empire Safety Council
- January 25, 2010
- A Good Exchange
- Around New York
- Advocacy That Works.
- Kingstone Scores with Reiersen, Goldstein Play Book
- Potpourri of Interesting Issues to Start 2010
- January 11, 2010
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