All the headlines from our Market Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 27 2004 // In an effort to curb an impending crisis, the University Extended Education department at Cal State Fullerton announced that it has started accepting registrations for the Fall 2004 semester for the State University...
Jul 26 2004 // The American Association of Trial Lawyers held its annual convention in Boston early this month. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer was among the speakers. The following is an exchange of emails between ATLA’s...
Jul 19 2004 // As his bio notes, as a child Florida Senator Bill Nelson never imagined that one day he would both catapult into space from a NASA launch site just miles from his grandfather’s homestead and go on to serve the people...
Jul 19 2004 // The American Association of Trial Lawyers held its annual convention in Boston early this month. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer was among the speakers. The following is an exchange of e-mails between ATLA and yours...
Jul 19 2004 // In making his choice in a running mate earlier this month, Massachusetts Senator and Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has gone for a man who is no stranger to the courtrooms.North Carolina Senator John Edwards...
Jul 19 2004 // This is the first in a series of articles on the Asia insurance marketplace. Part two in this series will focus on India and will appear in a September issue of Insurance Journal. “Let China Sleep, for when she...
Jul 16 2004 // CHICAGO―A National Conference of Insurance Legislators’ (NCOIL) task force unanimously approved a resolution to extend the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) “for a sufficient period of time to permit...
Jul 16 2004 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) presented Bill Thornton, president of Acadia Insurance Company in Westbrook, Maine, with the Raymond Mauk Leadership Award at the ICT’s 12th Annual Mid-Year Property and Casualty...
Jul 15 2004 // Martin Koetters of Louisville, a former insurance industry executive with 34 years of experience in the field, has been named executive director of the Kentucky Office of Insurance.Koetters held several insurance...
Jul 15 2004 // In the continuing march toward a soft market, most commercial insurance buyers renewed their policies at the same or lower premiums last quarter, according to a survey of corporate risk managers.Data from the survey shows...
Jul 13 2004 // The new Congress-led government in New Delhi faces a tough test ahead as a key Communist Party ally has come out against its proposal to raise the cap on foreign investment in India’s telecommunications, aviation and...
Jul 9 2004 // The consumer group, Center for Economic Justice (CEJ), released a statement in response to a National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) study on credit scoring.CEJ’s Executive Director Birny Birnbaum...
Jul 9 2004 // ACE Global Re, the reinsurance division of the Bermuda-based ACE Group of Companies, announced that it is expanding its reinsurance capabilities in the finite risk reinsurance market. “Both prospective and...
Jul 5 2004 // Like a commercial airline scrambling to squeeze out a profit in the face of increased competition and skyrocketing fuel prices, many insurance agents find themselves caught in the downward spiral of another soft market...
Jul 5 2004 // The insurance industry, now teeter-tottering between a hard and a soft market, “has reached a point of inflection,” said Robert Partridge, Standard & Poor’s managing director, at S&P’s...
Jul 5 2004 // Mark Wells, editor and publisher of Insurance Journal and Insurance Journal.com and chief executive officer of Wells Publishing Inc., has been awarded the Insurance Marketing Communications Association’s (IMCA) 2004...
Jul 5 2004 // ‘Clean Slate’ U.S. P/C Insurers Learn from Sins of Their PredecessorsIn the summer of 2001, the hard cycle had already arrived for the U.S. property/casualty marketplace. Prices were trending up as experts...
Jul 5 2004 // Swiss Re’s chief economist believes that strong economic growth, coupled with a slight uptick in inflation, will force the Federal Reserve to raise the federal funds rate to close to 2 percent by the end of...
Jul 5 2004 // Mark Wells, editor and publisher of Insurance Journal and InsuranceJournal.com and CEO of Wells Publishing Inc., has been awarded the Insurance Marketing Communications Association’s (IMCA) 2004 Golden Torch Award...
Jul 5 2004 // In the opinion of one major industry player, The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 set in place “a mad rush to save the world from bad management,” a misguided and costly strategy that will fall victim to its...