Weekly Reader Picks: Monday, September 23, 2013

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September 23, 2013 Top 10 for the Past Week 1. Travelers Launching Low Cost, Segmented Product in New Personal Auto Strategy Sep 20, 2013 -- The Travelers Companies Inc. is adopting a new strategy to become more price-competitive in personal auto insurance. Travelers' CEO Jay Fishman explained his company's personal auto strategy at the Barclays Capital ... Share This: 2. No Penalty for Employers Not Telling Employees About Obamacare Sep 13, 2013 -- Employers will not face a penalty if they fail to inform their workers by Oct 1 about changes under President Barack Obama's healthcare law, the administration said, in what will likely come as a relief to many small ... Share This: 3. Employers Making Benefit Changes Under Cover of Obamacare Sep 19, 2013 -- Barack Obama wanted to change American health-care as we know it. And he is, in ways that go far beyond the goals of the Affordable Care Act. For weeks, headlines have cataloged the upheaval at private employers: UPS ... Share This: 4. The Top Risks Americans Face in Their Everyday Lives: Travelers Index Sep 17, 2013 -- Sixty-three percent of Americans believe their world is becoming a riskier place, while only 15 percent feel it is less risky. Americans' greatest concerns are financial security, loss of privacy and identity theft, ... Share This: 5. Ryan Specialty Group Announces Merger of S.H. Smith & Co. Into R-T Specialty Sep 16, 2013 -- Ryan Specialty Group LLC today announced that it reached agreement to merge S.H. Smith & Company Inc. into R-T Specialty LLC, the wholesale brokerage unit of Ryan Specialty Group. Terms of the transaction were not ... Share This: 6. Massachusetts High Court Affirms $20.6M Award in Slide Death Sep 18, 2013 -- The highest court in Massachusetts upheld a $20.6 million jury award on Sept. 13 for the family of a woman who died after hitting her head on a concrete pool deck when an inflatable slide partially collapsed. A jury ... Share This: 7. Employer-Based Health Insurance Continues to Decline Sep 18, 2013 -- The share of Americans who get health insurance through their jobs fell for the fourth straight year as aging baby boomers piled into the U.S. government's Medicare plan and other adults sought coverage on their own. ... Share This: 8. Hacker Group in China Linked to Cyberattacks Against U.S. Firms: Symantec Sep 17, 2013 -- Computer security experts have discovered a group of highly sophisticated computer hackers operating for hire, a U.S computer security firm said on Tuesday, and it linked the group to some of the best-known ... Share This: 9. The Fight for Policy Ownership Sep 16, 2013 -- There are times when what agents don't know can hurt them. And this is one of them. I refer to the all-too-often overlooked, and recently targeted, ownership of policy "expirations" — policy, policyholder and ... Share This: 10. State Insurance Regulators Invoke Jefferson to Limit Federal Role Sep 18, 2013 -- State insurance regulators are drawing on the country's founding principles as they resist international pressure to give the federal government a greater role in overseeing the industry. Ben Nelson, chief executive ... Share This: Popular Videos AIR's New Touchstone Cat Model a 'Major Advance' Says CEO Lights, Camera, Video! Swiss Re's Chief Economist Sees GDP Growth Subscriber Tools Send this to a friend Subscribe Unsubscribe Submit News Contact Us More Newsletters Choose Newsletters Daily Headlines Weekly Reader Picks Magazine Update Insurance Journal TV Classifieds Breaking News MyNewMarkets Daily Claims Daily Enter Your E-mail

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