All the headlines from our Market Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 8 2005 // Legislation in Congress to pass U.S. Rep. Mark Foley’s proposal to allow the accumulation of tax-deferred catastrophic reserves by insurers, and a study on how to add programs to the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe...
Nov 8 2005 // More than 130 chartered property casualty underwriters and their guests at the recent CPCU Society Annual Meeting and Seminars attended an exclusive seminar, “Hurricane Katrina: Lessons Learned.”The...
Nov 7 2005 // P/C Insurers Post Record Results in 2005: The U.S. property/casualty industry recorded an underwriting profit of $13.2 billion, with a net income of $32.1 billion during the first six months of 2005, a substantial gain...
Nov 7 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 7 2005 // In the aftermath of the Spitzer investigations, it’s understandable why the insurance industry might feel battered and bruised. Some state insurance departments are considering new disclosure regulations, and...
Nov 7 2005 // An unprecedented number of California insurance industry professionals volunteered their time to charitable projects for the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation’s recent 8th Annual Volunteer Week. The 2005...
Nov 6 2005 // Jim Shevlin has been named assistant vice president and regional business development manager for ACE USA’s Southeast Region. ACE USA is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pa. Based in Atlanta, Shevlin will manage...
Nov 6 2005 // Arkansas2006 Comp Rates Released The Arkansas Workers’ Compens-ation Commission released its revised Advisory 2000-1, which describes the maximum and minimum rates to be paid to employees who suffer job-related...
Nov 6 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 6 2005 // In the aftermath of the Spitzer investigations, it’s understandable why the insurance industry might feel battered and bruised. Some state insurance departments are considering new disclosure regulations, and...
Nov 6 2005 // ACE USA announced two appointments in its ACE Casualty Risk Unit. William Hazelton has joined as senior vice president and underwriting manager for ACE Environ-mental Risk, and Mitchell Schmidt is now senior vice president...
Nov 6 2005 // An unprecedented number of California insurance industry professionals volunteered their time to charitable projects for the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation’s recent 8th Annual Volunteer Week. The 2005...
Nov 6 2005 // P/C Insurers Post Record Results in 2005: The U.S. property/casualty industry recorded an underwriting profit of $13.2 billion, with a net income of $32.1 billion during the first six months of 2005, a substantial gain...
Nov 6 2005 // P/C Insurers Post Record Results in 2005: The U.S. property/casualty industry recorded an underwriting profit of $13.2 billion, with a net income of $32.1 billion during the first six months of 2005, a substantial gain...
Nov 3 2005 // Property casualty insurance industry results should be relatively strong from 2005 through 2007, despite 2005’s hurricane activity and an increasingly competitive market, according to a new report by Conning Research...
Oct 31 2005 // New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who is running for Governor in his home state, has painted his critics as defenders of corrupt practices and not true champions of free enterprise.He also has sought to refute the...
Oct 31 2005 // United Industry Effort Results in CDI Deletion of Contentious Proposed Regulation LanguageRancho Cordova…The Western Insurance Agents Association commended the recent action by the California Department of Insurance...
Oct 26 2005 // Fitch Ratings today said Hurricane Wilma represents a major blow to an already weak Florida property insurance market. If actual insured losses come in at the high end of the estimated range ($4 billion to $10 billion),...
Oct 26 2005 // In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, an online study of approximately 1,000 U.S. adults conducted by the research group Ipsos Public Affairs shows that while nearly all respondents approve of the job being done by charities...
Oct 24 2005 // Pennsylvania Governor Edward Rendell said that his state has turned the corner on improving its medical malpractice insurance market thanks in part to recent legislative and court reforms and he urged legislators to...