All the headlines from our Carriers Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 7 2023 // Connecticut lawmakers are considering imposing a surcharge on insurers’ premiums from the fossil fuel industry.The proposal (SB-1115) calls for a tax of 5% of any premiums any insurer licensed in the state receives...
Mar 6 2023 // Louisiana Commissioner Jim Donelon is notifying property/casualty insurers that they will receive credit toward the Insure Louisiana Incentive Program’s grant requirements for assuming United Property & Casualty...
Mar 6 2023 // A Texas lawmaker is seeking to broaden the fight against ESG (environmental social governance) policies by imposing further limits on the types of investments state pension managers can make and restricting shareholder...
Mar 6 2023 // During a webinar about an insurance industry labor market survey last month, an industry recruiter said that insurance carriers are losing ground to managing general agents in the war for talent.“On the property and...
Mar 6 2023 // Two Trumbull Insurance customers who believe they were short-changed on claims payments have filed a proposed class action suit against the insurer, alleging Trumbull has been incorrectly calculating some property claim...
Mar 6 2023 // It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” would be an apt description of the last few years for auto insurers. Immediately after a nationwide, months-long driving hiatus caused collisions to plummet and...
Mar 6 2023 // New figures show car sales in California continue to slowly return to pre-pandemic levels, which the state’s auto insurers believe is another indication the state’s insurance regulator needs to approve more...
Mar 6 2023 // The past three years taught business owners resilience and adaptability. This is especially true for small businesses faced with the unique challenges of the pandemic, inflation, and the Great Resignation.But the pandemic...
Mar 6 2023 // Outside of insurance attorneys, plaintiffs’ lawyers and some doctors, few people in Florida may be familiar with what are known as letters of protection.But critics say the instruments, in which doctors agree to take...
Mar 3 2023 // Senate Bill 2A, enacted into law in December, gave Florida property insurers some major relief on litigation costs. But it also required a number of consumer-friendly actions from carriers and sets new timetables on...
Mar 3 2023 // Jeremy Gittler, practice leader and head of Cyber Americas at AXA XL, thinks of the cyber insurance industry as a rollercoaster. He says that after several years of turbulence with the advent of more sophisticated...
Mar 1 2023 // According to a new survey from specialty broker Ames & Gough, insurers of professional liability for architects and engineers are planning additional rate increases to keep pace with rising claims costs, a backlog of...
Mar 1 2023 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tvWhile the continuously evolving cyber threat landscape is a growing problem for insurers, experts on this episode of The Insuring Cyber Podcast say it’s not an insurmountable one, and...
Mar 1 2023 // Canopius Group, the global specialty re/insurer, announced the opening of a new trading office in Melbourne, Australia. The operation will be led by David Mutton, who joins Canopius as casualty underwriter, APAC with...
Mar 1 2023 // Insurers are about to pay state-owned Bangladesh Shipping Corp. (BSC) $22.48 million for its vessel that was hit by a missile during fighting in Ukraine, two officials involved said on Tuesday.The expected settlement is...
Mar 1 2023 // Plaintiffs’ attorneys took it on the chin when Florida lawmakers in December approved Senate Bill 2A, which ended the practice of one-way attorney fees in property insurance litigation.Now, though, a number of...
Feb 28 2023 // Travis joins Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Company as Senior Vice President Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Company, based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, has named Abel Travis its new senior vice president, affiliate...
Feb 28 2023 // Truck insurers would be able to avoid being named as defendants in lawsuits filed after trucking accidents under a bill moving through the Georgia General Assembly.Senate Bill 191, reported favorably last week by the...
Feb 28 2023 // This profile of Trium Cyber is the inaugural article in a regular series of Company Spotlights, published by Insurance Journal, which cover the insurance industry’s startups and innovators.Trium Cyber is the...
Feb 27 2023 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. While modern insurance infrastructure allows insurance carriers to access to-the-day reporting for insurance producers’ and adjusters’ licenses, many still...