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Honesty Turns Out To Be Best Policy In Selling Coverage To Skeptical PublicThe Gallup Organization sent its people to the phones around Thanksgiving time to ...
Agents Can Help Control Restaurant PremiumsWhen sitting down with new restaurant clients or prospects, one of the most common questions they ask is what can ...
Calif. Comp Reform Battle Far From OverNew rules and procedures are in place, but suits threaten implementationA year after the enactment of California's changes ...
WC Injury Frequency Still In Free-FallExperts disagree on cause of decline in number of claims facing carriersThe frequency of workers' compensation injury claims has ...
Former McKinsey consultant welcomed as agent of change, fresh outsiderBy michael haAon Corp.'s recently appointed chief executive officer, Gregory Case, is envisioning his new ...
Texas Moves To Cut Soaring WC CostsEstablishing medical care networks seen as remedy for dying systemTexas lawmakers stand on the brink of approving the ...
Know Thy Risk; Know Thy WholesalerRetailers who are clueless about accounts, markets lose MGA's respectA retailer that tells David Price, executive vice president of ...
Deals Slow Slightly, But Buyers On ProwlSpitzer probe spurs divestitures of wholesalers; gives some buyers pauseAgency mergers and acquisitions are proceeding at a slightly ...
Can You Defend Ethics Of Contingency Deals?Second Of Two PartsLast week, we looked at two questions whether contingency commission arrangements are ethical, and under what ...
REGARDLESS of whether a company is publicly owned, privately held or nonprofit, the employment practices liability exposure seems to be its greatest concern among the various management liability risks it faces. Certainly, awareness of the issue is