Monday, April 1, 2013

Weekly Reader Picks: Monday, April 1, 2013

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Insurance Journal Weekly Reader Picks
April 1, 2013

Top 10 for the Past Week

1.Insurance Agent Takes Stand on Gay Marriage in Supreme Court Case
Mar 27, 2013 -- Today David Kosar can be considered one of the nation's most outspoken insurance agents on the issue of gay marriage. Kosar, owner of David Kosar Insurance Agency-American Family in Everett, Wash., has joined an ...
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2.How Obamacare Could Affect P/C Insurance
Mar 28, 2013 -- The key changes in federal health care reform remain months away but property/casualty actuaries are already trying to determine what impact they will have on their own lines of business, particularly workers' ...
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3.Obamacare to Hike Some, Lower Other Individual Health Premiums: Sebelius
Mar 27, 2013 -- President Barack Obama's top healthcare adviser acknowledged on Tuesday that costs could rise in the individual health insurance market, particularly for men and younger people, because of the landmark 2010 healthcare ...
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4.Top 10 Hot New Markets
Mar 25, 2013 -- Insurance Journal examined industries experiencing changes and expansions during the past year. Here are the top 10 market sectors that just might deliver hot opportunities for agents and brokers in the ...
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5.Flood Insurance Policyholders Told to Expect Big Premium Hikes
Mar 28, 2013 -- The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said people who buy federal flood insurance need to plan for big rate hikes. FEMA director Craig Fugate said some people now paying hundreds of dollars a year could ...
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6.AIG Adopts Clawback Policy, Employee Incentive Plans
Mar 28, 2013 -- American International Group, the insurer whose government bailout was marked by controversy over executive salaries, on Wednesday said its board adopted a clawback policy to recover compensation in case of mistakes or ...
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7.10 Things to Know About Home and Auto
Mar 29, 2013 -- There are more than 132 million housing units in the United States, more than 80 million of which are detached, single-family homes, and roughly one-in-four of those homes were built prior to the 1970s. (U.S. Census ...
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8.Florida Skydivers’ Deaths Under Investigation
Mar 26, 2013 -- Two skydivers from Iceland who died during weekend jumps at a popular southwest Florida camp did not deploy their main parachutes, the co-owner of the facility said. Deputies found the bodies of a skydiving instructor ...
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9.Scottsdale Insurance Agrees to Pay $1M to Fired Pennsylvania County Employees
Mar 26, 2013 -- A group of northeast Pennsylvania county workers will share a $1 million settlement that will end five years of federal litigation over firings they alleged were politically motivated. The (Scranton) Tribune-Review says ...
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10.Top 10 Consumer Complaint Categories
Mar 29, 2013 -- The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has released its top 10 consumer complaint categories for 2012. For the first time ever, the agency received more than two million complaints. Of the two million complaints, 18 percent ...
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