All the headlines from our Aviation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 5 2004 // A chartered Boeing 737 with 148 people on board crashed into the Red Sea shortly after taking off from the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheik early Saturday morning. There were no survivors.The plane, operated by Egyptian...
Jan 2 2004 // The elevated terrorist threat levels decreed by the Homeland Security Department and the U.S. Transportation Security Administration, coupled with repeated warnings from the FBI, combined to disrupt trans-Atlantic air...
Oct 21 2003 // Houston-based SalvageSale Inc., which provides full-service salvage recovery, salvor services and loss mitigation for the commercial salvage markets, announced that senior insurance industry veteran Dan DeHart has joined...
Sep 23 2003 // The Boston-based RISConsulting Group LLC (RISC), a transactional consulting firm specializing in complex risk, announced the introduction of two new models to its Web site – (www.aircraftrisk.com), for the aircraft...
Aug 29 2003 // Aviation Charter Inc. has agreed to a $25 million insurance settlement with the family members of Minnesota Sen. Paul Wellstone and five other passengers as compensation for the October plane crash which killed them,...
Aug 22 2003 // NYMAGIC, Inc. announced that its insurance subsidiary, New York Marine And General Insurance Company, would assume the new and renewal business written under a primary marine cargo program managed by Southern Marine &...
Aug 4 2003 // Looking for a great course to woo your next client on the fairway? Insurance Journal readers voted for their favorite golf resort…. And the results are in! We gathered reader comments as to why they voted for their...
Jul 29 2003 // The Oklahoma Insurance Department announced that former Oklahoma County District Court Judge Leamon Freeman ordered increased supervision by the insurance department over Aviation Insurance Group Agency Inc. of Bethany....
Jun 16 2003 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher placed a Bethany insurance agency into supervision after learning that its owner may have stolen more than $100,000 from her customers in the form of refunds she hid from...
May 9 2003 // Kansas City Life Insurance Company posted a $0.62 per share net loss in the first quarter 2003, compared with a $0.54 per share net income last year. The net loss of $7.5 million for the quarter is primarily due to...
May 6 2003 // AIG Aviation, Inc., a member company of American International Group, Inc. (AIG), is now endorsing Civil Air Patrol (CAP) liability coverage onto the non-owned aircraft damage liability insurance form.“The Civil Air...
Apr 7 2003 // As President Bush and his advisors made good on their defiant promise to act alone if necessary to get rid of Iraq’s tyrannical régime, the world heard echoes of Mark Antony’s cry of rage and revenge –...
Apr 7 2003 // As President Bush and his advisers made good on their defiant promise to act alone if necessary to get rid of Iraq’s tyrannical régime, the world heard echoes of Mark Antony’s cry of rage and revenge,...
Mar 26 2003 // Germany’s Allianz AG, one of the largest providers of coverage to the European Community’s air carriers, has issued a statement indicating that, while it has no plans to cancel coverage on flights headed for...
Mar 21 2003 // Despite the onset of the long anticipated war with Iraq, there have as yet been no outright cancellations of coverage relating to the Persian Gulf Region. Many insurance companies, however, have warned that they will...
Mar 20 2003 // As war began last night with U.S. air attacks on selected targets in Baghdad, that apparently just missed Saddam Hussein, the insurance industry nervously prepared for the global fallout.Commercial insurers warned their...
Mar 10 2003 // Standard & Poor’s recently announced that Allianz Marine & Aviation, the transport and aviation insurer of the Allianz Group, has been rated “A+” with a stable outlook, drawing this comment from...
Mar 3 2003 // The European Commission, the European Union’s regulatory authority, has approved the sale of a number of stakes in Global Aerospace Underwriting Managers Limited (GAUM), a consortium that insures airlines and...
Jan 13 2003 // Experts say the crash of a US Airways commuter flight in North Carolina will likely cost the insurance industry tens of millions of dollars, according to the Charlotte Observer, but it will probably not affect...
Dec 23 2002 // China’s non-life insurers will be able to compete with the country’s life insurance industry to provide flight passenger insurance polices beginning January 1, 2003. A bulletin from the country’s official...