Latest Casualty Headlines

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Surplus Lines Rules Clarified for Calif. Retail Agents

Sep 24 2007 // California retail agent-brokers not transacting insurance on behalf of surplus line broker organizations are not required to follow a new law affecting surplus lines brokers, the California Department of Insurance...

What’s ahead for Liberty Mutual, Ohio Casualty independent agents?

Sep 24 2007 // For agents, the Liberty Mutual Agency Markets acquisition of Ohio Casualty promises to be a matter of addition, not subtraction. For the most part, Ohio Casualty’s 3,400 agents will join with and not replace or be...

Ohio Casualty Honored by PIA with National Company Award of Excellence

Sep 19 2007 // Ohio Casualty Group, now operating as Ohio Casualty, a regional company within Liberty Mutual Agency Markets, was honored recently with the 2007 National Company Award of Excellence by the National Association of...

Dale Approved Miss. Farm Bureau Casualty Co. Rate Reductions

Sep 14 2007 // In a step seen to indicate further stabilization of the Mississippi insurance market, Commissioner of Insurance George Dale announced that he has approved two rate filing reduction requests filed by Mississippi Farm Bureau...

Guy Carpenter Issues EU Casualty Specialty Report

Sep 12 2007 // Guy Carpenter & Company has published a new report “Casualty Specialty Update,” which covers the areas of liability catastrophe modeling, European environmental liability legislation and the impact of...

Maryland Officials to Explain Good Faith P/C Damage Filings

Sep 6 2007 // The Maryland Insurance Administration (MIA) will conduct a workshop to explain how it will implement newly enacted legislation that authorizes the award of enhanced damages against property and casualty insurance companies...

Latinos and property casualty insurance products

Sep 3 2007 // As the Latino population continues to grow, marketers are directing more efforts to reach this segment. Every company in the United States has asked itself the question: how do we attract Latino consumers? And many are now...

Ohio Casualty officially joins the Liberty Mutual agency family

Sep 3 2007 // With $7.3 billion in premium, Liberty Mutual Agency Markets becomes the largest regional independent agency forceBoston-based insurance giant Liberty Mutual Group is now the largest regional provider of property and...

What’s ahead for Liberty Mutual, Ohio Casualty independent agents?

Sep 3 2007 // For agents, the Liberty Mutual Agency Markets acquisition of Ohio Casualty promises to be a matter of addition, not subtraction. For the most part, Ohio Casualty’s 3,400 agents will join with and not replace or be...

Ohio Casualty officially joins the Liberty Mutual agency family

Sep 3 2007 // With $7.3 billion in premium, Liberty Mutual Agency Markets now largest regional independent agency.Boston-based insurance giant Liberty Mutual Group is now the largest regional provider of property and casualty insurance...

News Currents

Sep 3 2007 // Ohio Casualty officially joins the Liberty Mutual agency familyWith $7.3 billion in premium, Liberty Mutual Agency Markets now largest regional independent agency Boston-based insurance giant Liberty Mutual Group is now...

People

Sep 3 2007 // Richard E. Meuret has been appointed vice president and manager, Field Operations Analysis, for Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company operations. Meuret will be based in the insurer’s Boston home office and...

Agency Specialty Forms Alliance with Midwest Employers Casualty

Aug 31 2007 // Agency Specialty Product Network (ASPN) has announced it has formed an alliance with Midwest Employers Casualty Co. (MECC), based in Chesterfield, Mo., to offer large deductible workers’ compensation programs (single...

Liberty Mutual Realigns Agency Companies to Welcome Ohio Casualty

Aug 27 2007 // Boston-based Liberty Mutual Group finalized its acquisition of Ohio Casualty Corp. on Friday, Aug. 24, 2007 and immediately announced a realignment of its $5.9 billion net premium regional agency company organization to...

Liberty Mutual Receives Regulatory Approvals for Ohio Casualty Acquisition

Aug 21 2007 // Liberty Mutual Group and Ohio Casualty Corp. recently announced that the Liberty Mutual Group has received approvals from the State of Ohio Department of Insurance and the State of Indiana Department of Insurance for the...

Mass. Court Rules Excess Insurer Not Bound by Primary Insurer Settlement

Aug 7 2007 // An insurer of a so-called “follow form” excess policy is not bound by the decision of a primary insurer to settle a claim, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled.The state’s highest court...

QBE the Americas’ President, CEO John Pollock to Retire

Aug 6 2007 // QBE the Americas has announced that president and CEO John Pollock will retire at year-end after 29 years of service to the company. Pollock will continue as chairman of the General Casualty and Unigard board of directors....

The Hartford settlement ends agents’ contingent commissions

Aug 6 2007 // The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. announced it has reached a settlement with the New York, Connecticut and Illinois attorneys general resolving matters relating to their investigations of the compensation...

The Hartford settlement with attorneys general ends agents’ contingent

Aug 6 2007 // The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. announced it has reached a settlement with the New York, Connecticut and Illinois attorneys general resolving matters relating to their investigations of the compensation...

Texas’ June Enforcement Actions Result in $190K in Fines, Restitution

Jul 31 2007 // Enforcement actions taken by Texas Insurance Commissioner Mike Geeslin that became final during June resulted in nearly $191,000 in fines and restitution, the Texas Department of Insurance announced.The actions include...