All the headlines from our Market Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 23 2009 // Kate Westover, vice president of Alternative Risk Financing at Innovative Captive Strategies, has received the 2009 Distinguished Service Award from the Captive Insurance Companies Association (CICA). Based in Colchester,...
Mar 23 2009 // No one will argue that operating an insurance business today is challenging. The recession has put pressure on consumers’ wallets, causing them to consider reducing coverages; credit is difficult to come by, meaning...
Mar 16 2009 // Ohio’s Feb. 11-12 windstorm caused at least $88.9 million in damages, based on preliminary insured loss estimates from the Ohio Insurance Institute (OII), an insurance industry trade group. Widespread losses were...
Mar 12 2009 // Japanese non-life insurers Sompo Japan Insurance and NipponKoa Insurance plan to merge, an industry source said, in the second deal in less than two months in a sector struggling with slumping demand and a dwindling,...
Mar 11 2009 // Target Markets Program Administrators Association, Wilmington, DE. With keynote speaker Ben Stein commenting on the current state of our economy, and John Amore (CEO General Insurance, Zurich Financial Services) providing...
Mar 11 2009 // Surplus lines insurance industry leaders in Florida hope legislation working its way through the state Legislature will clarify how the industry will be regulated.The industry has had concerns about its future since court...
Mar 11 2009 // Michigan’s regulator has reignited a debate over credit scoring by denying auto insurance companies requested rate increases because their proposed rate schemes include discounts for good credit scores.Commissioner...
Mar 10 2009 // Kate Westover, vice president of Alternative Risk Financing at Innovative Captive Strategies, has received the 2009 Distinguished Service Award from the Captive Insurance Companies Association (CICA). Based in Colchester,...
Mar 10 2009 // The Montana legislature will hear bills this week related to auto body repair and what the insurance industry is calling bad faith legislation that could drastically affect the state’s insurance market and insurance...
Mar 9 2009 // The $787 billion stimulus package passed by Congress looms as the largest mountain on the country’s newly changed economic landscape. But despite hope that the stimulus bill will jump-start spending, some insurance...
Mar 9 2009 // Russell R. Oliver, president of Texas Mutual Insurance Co. since 1995, is retiring from the company at the end of August 2009.Oliver notified the Board of Directors in January of his decision to retire this summer. Two...
Mar 9 2009 // San Francisco-based Wells Fargo & Co. announced its management team for the combined insurance businesses of Wells Fargo and Wachovia Corp. Reporting to Dave Zuercher, group head of International and Insurance...
Mar 9 2009 // Top 100 Agency ProfileRANKING: No. 11 Agency Name: Heffernan Insurance Brokers Headquarters: Walnut Creek, Calif. Year Founded: 1988 Additional Locations: Palo Alto, San Francisco, Petaluma, Los Angeles and Orange, Calif.;...
Mar 9 2009 // Observers of the property and casualty insurance industry, who consider themselves gurus when it comes to predicting cyclical changes, find themselves in a state of perplexity these days. Traditionally, they look to the...
Mar 3 2009 // With capacity levels up at the start of 2009, the energy insurance market remains relatively stable — says a new industry report — despite insurers seeking rate increases and the energy industry trying to...
Feb 25 2009 // The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board has approved a proposal by the University of Houston-Downtown (UHD) to offer a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Insurance and Risk Management.The new degree...
Feb 23 2009 // Insurance coverage is an expense that many small business owners might be tempted to cut back on or even forgo as they try to cut costs during the recession. They’re making a bet that they won’t need the...
Feb 22 2009 // Siren Song“The fire department is going to be mad at me.” —A sang phrase recorded by Amanda Gessner, 19, in a Drexel Hill, Pa. convenience store surveillance camera – which led to her arrest for arson...
Feb 22 2009 // While there are an estimated 130 entities selling takaful — cooperative insurance that is true to Shariah tenets of Islamic religious law — in foreign countries around the globe, the insurance industry has...
Feb 22 2009 // The Florida surplus lines industry may be challenged right now by regulatory uncertainty stemming from the Essex and CNL Hotels rulings but it is not letting that blind it to opportunities.One opportunity is the pending...