All the headlines from our Casualty Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 15 2004 // North Pointe Casualty Insurance Company has agreed to offer replacement homeowners’ coverage to 60,000 Florida policyholders of American Superior Insurance Company according to Tom Gallagher, Florida’s Chief...
Dec 8 2004 // W. R. Berkley Corporation (NYSE:BER) announced that Armin W. Blumberg, president of Jacksonville, Fla.-based Carolina Casualty Insurance Company (Carolina) since 1997 and an employee of the W. R. Berkley Corporation group...
Dec 6 2004 // Ten years from now, some of the players within the property casualty insurance industry will have changed but the industry itself will not look dramatically different from what it is today:Smaller companies and independent...
Nov 22 2004 // PCI Execs Contend Current Players Will Adapt to Maintain AdvantagesTen years from now, some of the players within the property/casualty insurance industry will have changed but the industry itself will not look...
Nov 19 2004 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has affirmed its ‘BBB-‘ counterparty credit rating on CNA Financial Corp. (NYSE:CNA) and its ‘A-‘ counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on...
Nov 10 2004 // ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operating division of The ACE Group of Companies, announced the appointment of Connie Germano as senior vice president to lead the Excess Casualty and Custom Casualty businesses. Germano will...
Nov 8 2004 // The latest technologies to allow independent agents and brokers to efficiently manage and ensure a profitable business were presented to more than 1,800 conferees attending the Applied Systems Client Network’s...
Nov 8 2004 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has revised its outlook on the U.S. property/casualty commercial lines sector to negative from stable.“The outlook revision follows allegations of widespread misconduct...
Nov 8 2004 // The latest technologies that allow independent agents and brokers to efficiently manage and ensure a profitable business were presented to more than 1,800 conferees attending the Annual Technology, Education and Networking...
Nov 4 2004 // ACE Ltd. (NYSE:ACE) announced that it will take several new steps to monitor and improve its compliance with best underwriting practices, and avoid real or any appearance of conflicts of interest.— The company has...
Nov 3 2004 // Guy Carpenter & Company, Inc., the global risk and reinsurance specialist of the Marsh & McLennan Companies, announced the appointment of George Carrington as Senior Vice President in Guy Carpenter’s U.K....
Nov 3 2004 // Ohio Casualty Corp. (Nasdaq:OCAS) announced the following results for its third quarter ended Sept. 30, 2004, compared with the same period of the prior year:— Net income of $19.6 million, or $0.31 per diluted share,...
Oct 26 2004 // Allmerica Financial Corporation (NYSE: AFC) in Worcester, Mass. has reported third quarter net income of $17.7 million, or $0.33 per share, compared to net income of $11.4 million, or $0.21 per share, in the third quarter...
Oct 22 2004 // The reinsurance industry is facing a key test from the 2005 renewal season in terms of how it reacts in practice to pricing pressure from cedents, according to A.M. Best Co..While the material levels of catastrophe losses...
Oct 21 2004 // Cincinnati-based The Midland Company, a provider of specialty insurance products and services, reported results for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, 2004.Net income per share was 12 cents, which included 1 cent in...
Oct 20 2004 // Ohio Casualty Group CEO Dan R. Carmichael received the third-annual Pinnacle Award from the Applied Systems Client Network (ASCnet), the user group of Applied Systems management technology. One of the association’s...
Oct 7 2004 // AIG Excess Casualty(R), a division of the property and casualty insurance subsidiaries of American International Group, Inc., announced the launch of AIG ExcessAdvantage, described as “a new program designed to...
Oct 1 2004 // Insurer Ohio Casualty Corp. announced that Jeffery L. Haniewich, executive vice president and chief operating officer of the commercial lines division of the Ohio Casualty Insurance Co., has left to pursue other career...
Sep 29 2004 // Details of the settlement of a lawsuit between the town of Rhinelander, Wis., and General Casualty Insurance Cos. over cleanup of a former city landfill were released Friday after an open records lawsuit.The Sun Prairie,...
Sep 22 2004 // Maine officials have warned consumers and industry professionals about a scam involving an unlicensed company using a name and logo similar to those of The Hartford, the well-known insurer, and one of its duly licensed...