All the headlines from our Market Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 23 2003 // The Insurance Industry Charitable Fund (IICF) recently marked their 10th year anniversary at their annual Gala celebration, held this year at the San Francisco City Hall.Over the past 10 years, the IICF has evolved as an...
Jun 19 2003 // Pathlore Software Corp., a provider of learning-management systems (LMS), announced today that New Berlin, Wis.-based Marshall & Swift/Boeckh (MS/B) will use Pathlore’s LMS to bring training to insurance agents,...
Jun 18 2003 // A report on the French insurance market released by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services calls the outlook in both the life and P/C sectors “stable.” S&P had previously classed the P/C...
Jun 12 2003 // Insurance executives reportedly believe that technology is critical to compete successfully, but their current systems are not helping enough.This is one of several findings uncovered by a new study conducted by the Robert...
Jun 11 2003 // Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed Senate Bill 14, the recently passed insurance reform legislation, during a signing ceremony at a construction site in Temple. According to a statement released by the governor’s office,...
Jun 9 2003 // Fitch Ratings’ current estimate is that the domestic P/C industry will experience an improvement in the combined ratio to 103.9 percent in 2003 from 107.2 percent in 2002, with an increase in premium volume of...
Jun 9 2003 // Quality Planning Corporation (QPC), the Rating Integrity Solutions Company, released its annual Premium Rating Error report, detailing just how much often-overlooked premium rating errors diminish the overall profits of...
Jun 9 2003 // Every day, agents and brokers use financial strength ratings of insurers in their business. A carrier’s ratings may affect an agent’s ability to place risks with that insurer, or the client’s willingness...
Jun 9 2003 // Recently, Insurance Journal sat down with Alan Kaufman, chairman, president, and CEO of the H.W. Kaufman Financial Group and its subsidiary, Burns & Wilcox Ltd. As chairman, Kaufman has played an active role through a...
Jun 9 2003 // “Amateur hour is over.” Those were the words of the Sullivan Group president Gerald J. Sullivan, addressing a roomful of industry executives recently at the 9th Annual Insuring the Children Forum....
May 30 2003 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey Inc. announced that Steven Reichman, CIC, executive VP of NIA Group LLC in Somerset, will receive the association’s “Distinguished Insurance Service” award...
May 29 2003 // The National Association of Independent Insurers issued a bulletin indicating that the Massachusetts Senate Ways and Means Committee’s version of the state’s budget includes several provisions that will cause...
May 23 2003 // The Palisades Group, based in Berkeley Heights New Jersey, announced that it has agreed to acquire The Prudential Property and Casualty Insurance Company of New Jersey (PRUPAC-NJ), the New Jersey property and casualty unit...
May 20 2003 // Cochran, Caronia & Co., investment bankers to the insurance industry, will convene a conference to address critical issues facing the property and casualty insurance industry. The day- ong conference will feature...
May 19 2003 // I hate to be the one to bring it up, but …you know it’s coming. It’s lurking, ready to pounce. Not as bad as the 1970s or 1980s, or to the depths of the late 1990s or 2000, perhaps. But it will come...
May 19 2003 // Revolutionary technology supporting agent-carrier collaboration is in widespread deployment. Known as Web Services, these technologies will play a critical role in determining the agent and carrier winners in...
May 19 2003 // Every day, agents and brokers use financial strength ratings of insurers in their business. A carrier’s ratings may affect an agent’s ability to place risks with that insurer, or the client’s willingness...
May 19 2003 // The National Association of Independent Insurers, the Alliance of American Insurers and the American Insurance Association all had favorable comments on the passage of New Jersey’s Auto Insurance Reform Act. (See...
May 19 2003 // Representatives of the National Association of Independent Insurers told the Massachusetts Division of Insurance at a recent hearing that one of the most effective ways to enhance the insurance market for consumers in the...
May 19 2003 // In an effort to deliver more insurance news to the industry, Insurance Journal is going on the road to interview industry figures and report from various conferences.Mitch Dunford, executive vice president, noted,...