Coalition mounts aggressive liability reform effort: upcoming TV campaign: medical societies have ponied up $10 million to fund coalition activities.
SAN ANTONIO--A new and rapidly growing specialty society coalition called Doctors for Medical Liability Reform is poised to wrest the helm of the tort reform campaign from the American Medical Association. With $10 million in its coffers so far, Doctors for Medical Liability Reform (DMLR) plans an...

Insurance and financial services available. (Association News).
Insurance and financial issues are pressing concerns on the minds of most selfemployed people, and music teachers are no exception. MTNA members are eligible for a variety of insurance and investment services offered by Robert H. Clarkson Insurance Agency, Inc., and Raymond James Financial Services, Inc., member NASD/SIPC. ...

Hard market spurs captive growth: A variety of factors, including rising rates and tight underwriting restrictions, are driving employers into captives and risk retention groups in record numbers. (Special Report: Captives and Alternative Risk Transfer).
For nearly 10 years, the temptation was immense. Insurers were cutting rates with every renewal and aggressively pursuing employers they previously shunned. Some of those companies abandoned the captive insurers they formed during earlier insurance coverage crises and returned to standard markets for the low rates while...

Keeping overseas workers, business travelers healthy. (Up Front).
More Americans than ever are working abroad. While the U.S. Census Bureau does not keep a complete count of American expatriates, the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs recorded 3.78 million Americans living abroad in 1999. Numbers from the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Economic Analysis...

Shortchanging rural physicians.
Geographic adjustments to physician reimbursement in the Medicare program unfairly undervalue the services of rural physicians. It is ludicrous to think that rural physicians do not work as hard or provide the same good quality of care as physicians in other areas. Most are competing...

Premium hikes ignite fury among Canadian execs; risks managers resort to self-insurance or simply go without coverage in their battle against skyrocketing rate increases.
In Canada, risk managers are singing the same old refrain as their U.S. counterparts to the south: Premiums are rising, coverage is dropping; where it will all lead, there's just no telling. Last year SITQ Inc. of Montreal, Canada's largest real estate owner, saw property insurance rates for $16...

IMDHA benefit programs.
* Internet Listing--Get your business listed on the World Wide Web through the Infinity Institute Interact Service. You do not have to be an Internet user to be listed as a Certified IMDHA member on this site. People who are looking for a Hypnotherapist will click onto the site...

North tollway expansion slated.
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo yesterday led ceremonies in Malacanang for the signing of the documents for the rehabilitation and expansion of the North Luzon Expressway (NLE) that could boost the industrial development of Central Luzon and the Clark special economic zone. Jose P. de Jesus, president and...

Crossing borders with trade credit insurance.
Until recently, exporters to emerging markets had only stopgap measures on which they could rely, They could buy traditional credit insurance, which is used by exporters to developed markets to protect themselves against commercial risks. However, a separate political risk policy had to be added to protect against the...

Brokers without borders: Assurex Global, a network of commercial insurance brokers, celebrates its Jubilee by insisting on an international perspective and a holistic view of the marketplace.
Assurex Global, in its 50th year, is the world's largest privately held risk management and commercial insurance broker network. Gregory S. Belton, president of Hunter Keilty Muntz & Beatty, of Toronto, is AG's current (and first international) chairman. James R. Hackbarth is president and CEO. Both sat down with...