All the headlines from our Market Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 25 2012 // Flower Mound, TX, 07/25/12 – WEBCETERA®, the leading provider of insurance industry software solutions and creator of EZLynx®, today announced the integration of fully editable ACORD® forms into the EZLynx product....
Jul 24 2012 // Warwick, RI, 07/24/12 – Astonish, a Digital Marketing Company catering to Local Insurance Agencies, Financial Services and Group Benefit firms, MGA’s, Aggregators and Carriers recently launched a new website...
Jul 23 2012 // Communications firm Sprint has begun selling driver tracking services to auto insurers.Sprint said its integrated, end-to-end usage-based insurance (UBI) services is designed specifically for the auto insurance industry....
Jul 23 2012 // Global insurance companies are struggling to get a grip on their flood exposure in Asia nearly a year after one of the world’s costliest disasters hit Thailand, with executives fearing an even worse event may strike...
Jul 23 2012 // A report from Willis Capital Markets & Advisory (WCMA), a unit of Willis Group Holdings, concludes that the “catastrophe reinsurance market may be on the cusp of a strategic shift, with third party capital...
Jul 23 2012 // Through the first quarter 2012, total direct premium written (DPW) for all property/casualty insurers is up 4 percent compared to first quarter 2011. This increase in DPW represents over $4.8 billion in premium growth, of...
Jul 23 2012 // Rate increases in the North American and international reinsurance markets are due to modest losses and poor results – not a hardening market, according to a report from Willis Re.The mid-year renewals report,...
Jul 23 2012 // “The economic sky is not falling.”That’s the opinion, at least, of Robert P. Hartwig, Ph.D., president and economist at the Insurance Information Institute. Hartwig told attendees at an insurance...
Jul 18 2012 // A bulletin from the insurance think tank The Geneva Association notes that “leaders of the insurance industry have significant concerns about the effects of inappropriate regulation and the effects of the current...
Jul 17 2012 // As images and sound are beamed from the UK to devices all over the world, insurers and reinsurers will play a key role in the transmission of the 2012 Olympic Games that run from July 27 to Aug. 12 in London. Lee Tookey,...
Jul 17 2012 // Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin, Insurance Commissioner John D. Doak and insurance industry executives, have met with insurance market representatives at Lloyd’s of London to discuss the state’s $15 billion insurance...
Jul 11 2012 // For many independent property/casualty agencies, one bright spot of opportunity in an era of otherwise lackluster growth has been the health and benefits market. Over the course of the past four or five years, savvy P/C...
Jul 5 2012 // The number of uninsured drivers in Texas has dropped more than 38 percent from a year ago, state statistics show, and officials attribute the decline to a program focused on getting those drivers either insured or off the...
Jul 5 2012 // The insurance industry plays a pivotal role in integrating new tools, technology and solutions to protect populations and assets against growing concerns about natural disasters and, in the process, helps ensure a...
Jul 3 2012 // “Rate increases in the North American and International reinsurance markets are due to modest losses and poor results – not a hardening market,” according to a newly release report from Willis Re, the...
Jul 2 2012 // Although insurance rates have been drifting upward in recent months, the property/casualty industry is unlikely to see a return to the traditional hard market this year or next, an insurance expert told reinsurance...
Jul 2 2012 // The Facebook initial public offering (IPO) fallout has started and its effects are being felt in the area of directors and officers insurance coverage for future social media IPOs.“D&O underwriters will view...
Jun 29 2012 // The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling to keep the Affordable Care Act largely intact is a step toward ensuring that health insurance markets attract a broad cross section of risk, a cornerstone to any viable health...
Jun 29 2012 // Europe’s citizens and businesses could benefit from better protection for their computer systems and data if the cyber insurance market can be kick-started, according to a recently released report from the European...
Jun 28 2012 // The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF) has expanded its traditional weeklong insurance volunteerism event in October to include an industrywide effort to boost charitable donations by insurance professionals....