Don’t Be Late For This Very Important Date

April 22, 2011
By Kevin Ring

With all of the well trained and highly qualified professional people at insurance agencies, why do most of them totally ignore the most important day of the year for workers’ compensation?

Here's a hint: it’s not the renewal date. No one can forget that day or they wouldn’t get paid.  read more..

Managing Claims Key To Insurer Profits, Deloitte Says

April 25, 2011
By Caroline McDonald, PropertyCasualty360.com
NU Online News Service, April 25, 2:55 p.m. EDT

Since claims are the single largest expenditure for a property and casualty insurance company, investing in claims management operational improvements is one of the most effective strategies to drive profitable growth, according to a report by Deloitte.  read more..

Illinois Department of Insurance News

Illinois Department of Insurance Provides Free, One-on-One Counseling to Storm Victims in Centralia and Du Quoin; Department warns of offers from unaffiliated 'insurance adjusters'.  read more..

CCM: Channel Coordination Mess or Customer Communications Management?

April 19, 2011  By Mark Breading

Customer Communications Management, long established as a need in the insurance industry, is gaining momentum as a primary discipline. But has the industry really made progress in managing communications with customers, or is CCM just another fancy acronym or the latest buzzword? Has the industry moved ahead?  read more..

PCI Files Brief In Supreme Court Climate-Change Case

Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com April 20, 2011

Insurance-industry lawyers are calling a global-warming lawsuit based on nuisance laws “the most significant case for the property and casualty insurance industry before the U.S. Supreme Court this term.”  read more..

Carrier Report Card: Pricing Remains Tops for Producers

April 12, 2011
By Robert Regis Hyle, PropertyCasualty360.com

Independent insurance agents want what every consumer wants these days—one stop shopping. When agents have issues, they don’t want to call 10 different people in the carrier’s organization to get the issue resolved, explains Mike Fitzgerald, senior analyst in the insurance practice for Celent.  read more..

Nuclear Dilemma: Adequate Insurance Too Expensive

Juergen Baetz, Associated Press April 21, 2011

In financial terms, nuclear incidents can be so devastating that the cost of full insurance would be so high as to make nuclear energy more expensive than fossil fuels.  read more..