All the headlines from our Market Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 11 2004 // Progressive Insurance Co.’s move to re-brand its independent agency segment is being met with good reviews from outside financial analysts and branding experts, but mixed reviews from the independent agents who are...
Oct 11 2004 // Due to efforts to rebuild the Florida property insurance market after Hurricane Andrew, most policyholders in the wake of 2004s more costly hurricane season should not face the same post-Andrew price increases or limited...
Oct 10 2004 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc. celebrated its second annual Hudson Valley Regional Awareness Program recently as about 250 insurance professionals attended the conference in Suffern, N.Y.During...
Oct 5 2004 // Connecticut urgently needs to make common-sense reforms to its medical liability system in order to preserve patients’ legal rights while protecting affordable patient care and enhancing the stability of the...
Oct 5 2004 // Gordon Stewart, president of the Insurance Information Institute will serve as the keynote speaker at the upcoming Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation’s (IICF) Bridge Week Luncheons. His topic, “Us &...
Oct 4 2004 // The U.K.’s annual Insurance and Financial Services Conference, sponsored by the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) and the Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters (CILA), got underway Wednesday, Sept. 29. The...
Sep 28 2004 // Dublin-based Research and Markets announced the addition of International Reinsurance Review 2004 / 05 to their offering.“The need for true (re)insurance professionals to be kept up to date on a multitude of issues...
Sep 27 2004 // Dublin-based Research and Markets announced the addition to their researche offerings of the Motor [Automobile] Insurance: Global Industry Guide .“The Motor Insurance Global Industry Guide is an essential resource...
Sep 22 2004 // Prior to 2004, Florida had gone for five years without a significant hurricane. So it is of little surprise that the onslaught of this year’s three major hurricanes has caught all of us in the insurance industry a...
Sep 21 2004 // According to a new special report from A.M. Best Co., the U.S. P/C industry recorded an underwriting profit of nearly $9 billion during the first six months of 2004, a substantial gain from the comparable period of...
Sep 21 2004 // A special report released by A.M. Best Co. concludes that at the end of 2003, direct premium volume for the surplus lines industry increased by approximately 28 percent over the prior year, which followed an estimated 62...
Sep 20 2004 // Millions of dollars worth of building defect litigation is going on today, and water intrusion, which often causes mold to grow, is one of the major issues. Infrared (IR) thermography, the non-destructive diagnostic...
Sep 20 2004 // But Not Everyone Thinks Renewing the Federal Backstop is a Good IdeaRegardless of whether George W. Bush is re-elected or John Kerry moves into the White House, the property/casualty insurance industry appears to have a...
Sep 20 2004 // Polizzi Prepares to Take the Reins at Orlando ConventionThirty years ago a small group of surplus lines professionals met in Miami Beach, Fla., to form what would be known today as the National Association of Surplus Lines...
Sep 20 2004 // First RespondersOnce upon a time, the excess and surplus line market was the safety valve of the insurance industry—the more lightly regulated, more financially shaky little brother to the admitted market. It was said to...
Sep 20 2004 // Kelley Touts Innovation as Core Competitive AdvantageLexington Insurance Co., the excess and surplus line subisidiary of the American International Group, has been the leader in the domestic E&S market for decades...
Sep 20 2004 // This is the second in a series of articles on the Asia insurance marketplace. The next article in this series will focus on Japan and will appear in an October issue of Insurance Journal.An ancient Indian parable tells the...
Sep 20 2004 // Regardless of whether President George W. Bush is re-elected or John Kerry moves into the White House, the property/casualty insurance industry appears to have a good chance of getting its wishes when it comes to extending...
Sep 20 2004 // “With charity for all, … let us strive on to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves,” Abraham Lincoln. Does this quote from our 16th president suggest that all...
Sep 16 2004 // In what the insurance industry reads as good news, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee is preparing to send to the full committee a bill to extend the life of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) for...