All the headlines from our Market Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 7 2005 // The Atlantic Task Force on Insurance Availability and Affordability released its final report at a media conference recently in Halifax, Canada.The report, which makes a number of concrete recommendations intended to help...
Dec 5 2005 // Ten 2006 passenger cars won praise from the insurance industry for offering top-of-the-line protection to passengers in front, side and rear crashes. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety announced a new designation,...
Dec 5 2005 // In public and in an interview with Insurance Journal, Misissippi Insurance Commis-sioner George Dale comes across as a laid-back Mississippi farm-boy, but the commissioner, who has been reelected for eight terms, has...
Dec 5 2005 // At several recent conferences speakers emphasized low employment rates are having a detrimental effect on their efforts to find qualified employees to work in the insurance industry.Efforts to find new employees are a...
Dec 4 2005 // The consolidation of insurance agencies has played a prominent role within the industry over the last 30 years. Now more than ever, however, such activity increasingly influences the average size of distributors, the scope...
Dec 4 2005 // In public and in an interview with Insurance Journal, Misissippi Insurance Commis-sioner George Dale comes across as a laid-back Mississippi farm-boy, but the commissioner, who has been reelected for eight terms, has...
Nov 29 2005 // “Convergence products” will play a critical part in the competitive landscape of the property-casualty industry in coming years despite being a relatively small segment, according to a new study by Conning...
Nov 21 2005 // Indiana’s plan to market itself as an insurance hub is getting help from the faculty at the Center for Actuarial Science, Insurance and Risk Management at Ball State University in Muncie.Steve Avila, the...
Nov 21 2005 // By most accounts the commercial auto insurance market nationally is stable to softening. Rates may be going down a little in some areas, staying the same or at least not going up very much in others. However, some pockets...
Nov 21 2005 // An interesting news release recently slipped into my e-mail box; it concerned the public’s perception of the insurance industry in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.The market research company, Ipsos Public Affairs, was...
Nov 21 2005 // Is the image of the insurance industry forever tainted in the public’s eyes? Ipsos Public Affairs, a market research company, recently conducted an online survey of the public’s perception of the insurance...
Nov 21 2005 // Montana State Auditor John Morrison approved two new Montana companies that can provide insurance in the captive insurance market. The State Insurance Depart-ment has licensed MHA Worker’s Compen-sation Reciprocal...
Nov 20 2005 // Lawmakers Pass Kids’ Health Plan:The Illinois House passed H.B. 806, Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s “All Kids” health insurance program on a 79-28 vote, following Senate approval on a 32-23 vote. The...
Nov 20 2005 // An interesting news release recently slipped into my e-mail box; it concerned the public’s perception of the insurance industry in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.The market research company, Ipsos Public Affairs, was...
Nov 20 2005 // FloridaFAIA Likes Due-Diligence DecisionThe Florida Association of Insu-rance Agents has filed an amicus (friend of the court) brief with the First District Court of Appeals in a case involving an insurance agent who...
Nov 20 2005 // CaliforniaGovernor’s Measures Defeated in Special Election California’s special election battle, the costliest campaign in the state’s history, roared to a close in November, much to the chagrin of Gov....
Nov 20 2005 // Ipsos Public Affairs, a market research company, recently conducted an online survey of the public’s perception of the insurance industry in the wake of hurricane Katrina. While the 1,000 adults who responded hardly...
Nov 20 2005 // By most accounts the commercial auto insurance market nationally is stable to softening. Rates may be going down a little in some areas, staying the same or at least not going up very much in others. However, some pockets...
Nov 18 2005 // In a speech on Nov. 17, given at a conference sponsored by insurance service provider Xchanging, Julian James, Lloyd’s Director of world-wide markets, stressed that the London market faced continuing challenges in...
Nov 17 2005 // A.M. Best Co. announced that it has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of “A+” (Superior) and the “aa-” issuer credit rating (ICR) of Japan’s Toa Reinsurance Company, Limited (Toa...