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Ratings Recap: Calif. Auto/Mercury, Arrowhead, Louisiana Farm, Chubb, Triad

May 8 2008 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has raised its counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on California Automobile Insurance Co. (California Auto) to ‘A+’ from ‘A’. S&P...

Chubb Posts Dip in 1st Quarter Profit

Apr 28 2008 // Chubb Corp, one of the largest U.S. business insurers, said that earnings fell 6.5 percent in the first quarter, as the value of policy sales fell moderately.The Warren, New Jersey-based insurer posted net income of $664...

Chubb Plans Brazil Reinsurance Unit

Apr 15 2008 // Federal Insurance Company, a member of the Chubb Group, has applied for a license to operate as an admitted reinsurer in Brazil with a representative office in São Paulo.Chubb Senior Vice-president Herman Weiss, Latin...

Abacus, ACE USA Partner for Online Foreign Event Program

Mar 18 2008 // Abacus Insurance Brokers, Inc., a Los Angeles-based program manager that distributes specialty insurance products online through abacus.net, has named ACE USA as its package carrier for the Abacus Foreign Event Program....

Camera, Lights, Action: Chubb Offers Risk Policy for Film Producers

Mar 10 2008 // The Oscars may be over, but film producers are still on the job looking for new and better ways to create good movies. A new film producers’ risk policy from the Chubb Group of Insurance Cos. addresses the enormous...

Nanotechnology: A Big Risk in a Small Package?

Mar 10 2008 // Insurance professionals gathered in the oak-paneled Old Library of Lloyd’s of London this past December to learn more about a risk that the institution’s 17th century founders could never have dreamed of —...

How to Appraise and Insure Historic Homes

Mar 10 2008 // Many urban and suburban areas are made more distinctive thanks to the historic homes nestled in their neighborhoods. Keeping history alive through these special homes is not always easy. With a slowing economy, owners find...

Camera, Lights, Action: Chubb Offers New Risk Policy for Film Producers

Feb 28 2008 // The Oscars may be over, but film producers are still on the job looking for new and better ways to create good movies. A new film producers’ risk policy from the Chubb Group of Insurance Cos. addresses the enormous...

Chubb Offers Solutions to Art Ownership Disputes

Feb 22 2008 // Chubb Corp. has taken the opportunity afforded by the latest thefts of high profile paintings, to offer some new coverage and advice on how to cope with potential ownership disputes involving art works.Chubb, an important...

Chubb Adds International Hull Insurance to Its Marine Offerings

Feb 22 2008 // The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies has expanded its marine offerings with the addition of international hull insurance.“The move follows Chubb’s recent appointment of two veteran hull underwriters in...

With Law Changed, Chubb Now Offers Home Invasion Coverage in N.Y.

Feb 12 2008 // It took a new state law but the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies has begun to offer coverage for home invasions, child abductions, car jackings and stalking threats as part of its homeowners policies sold in New York...

Chubb Joins Renewable Energy, Green Building Groups

Jan 31 2008 // The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies has joined the American Council On Renewable Energy and the U.S. Green Building Council.Peter Thompson, vice president, Chubb & Son, and worldwide energy manager for Chubb...

Chubb 4Q Profit Stayed About Even; U.S. Premiums Down 2%

Jan 30 2008 // The Chubb Corp. reported that net income in the fourth quarter of 2007 was $650 million or $1.68 per share, compared to $654 million or $1.56 per share in the fourth quarter of 2006.Operating income increased to $620...

Mass. Reports $4M Judgment Against Insurance Broker Wm. Gallagher

Dec 21 2007 // Massachusetts officials say they have won a $4 million judgment against a large Boston-based insurance broker over questionable compensation and reinsurance practices.Attorney General Martha Coakley’s office reported...

Business Moves

Dec 2 2007 // Hull & Co., McFall GeneralHull & Co. Inc. has acquired the assets of McFall General Agency Inc., which has offices in Portland, Ore., and Gig Harbor, Wash. Bob McFall, who founded MGA in 1981 and serves as...

InsuranceNoodle, ACE USA Team Up to Offer New Products

Nov 28 2007 // InsuranceNoodle Inc. announced a broker agreement with the insurance companies of ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operating division of the ACE Group of Companies. ACE USA will provide workers’ compensation and...

Wash. Fines Chubb & Son $250,000

Nov 28 2007 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has fined a New Jersey insurer and its affiliated companies $250,000 for multiple violations of Washington insurance laws discovered during a market conduct examination of...

Rating Recap: Chubb Corp.

Nov 27 2007 // Fitch Ratings announced that it has affirmed all of it ratings for The Chubb Corporation, including the ‘AA-‘ Issuer Default Rating (IDR) and ‘A+’ senior debt rating. Fitch also affirmed the...

ACE USA Names McCarty Senior VP and Western Regional Executive Officer

Nov 21 2007 // ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operating division of the ACE Group of Companies, announced that Robert J. McCarty has been appointed senior vice president and regional executive officer for ACE USA’s western...

ACE USA Rebrands INAMAR as ACE Recreational Marine Insurance

Nov 21 2007 // ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operating division of the ACE Group of Companies, announced that INAMAR, its marine marketing and underwriting division, will now be known as ACE Recreational Marine Insurance. This change in...