All the headlines from our Market Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 10 2001 // Robert G. Captain, insurance instructor at Grossmont College, El Cajon, Calif., was named the InVEST Teacher of the Year, announced the InVEST Board of Directors.InVEST-which maintains it is the only education program that...
Jul 9 2001 // Homeowners turned out in force to testify and listen, and to applaud when they agreed with what they heard, at a June 26 Texas Department of Insurance (DOI) public hearing on issues related to toxic mold and insurance...
Jun 29 2001 // According to the Insurance Information Network of California, when California unveiled an experimental, fixed-rate auto insurance policy for the poor last year, there was hope that it might encourage motorists who drive...
Jun 27 2001 // The U.S. property/casualty industry’s net income after taxes dropped 5.4 percent to $5.6 billion in first-quarter 2001 from $5.9 billion in first-quarter 2000, according to Insurance Services Office Inc. (ISO) and...
Jun 25 2001 // A recent jury decision should put up red flags for insurers: Take care of toxic mold claims adequately and promptly, or risk being assessed millions of dollars.That warning came in the form of a $32-million award to a...
Jun 25 2001 // Apparently, we’ve licked that quake insurance problem. Faced with the devastation (property and market) wrought by the Northridge Earthquake and the realization by insurers that the loss models they had carefully...
Jun 22 2001 // In an effort to educate consumers nationwide about insurance fraud and the price we all pay for these crimes, the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters (CPCU) Society and National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) released...
Jun 22 2001 // As chairman of the Grants Committee of Insuring the Children, Orange County Chapter, Larry Shoaf, branch manager and senior vice president of Dodge, Warren & Peters Insurance has been distributing checks to various...
Jun 18 2001 // Travis County District Court jury to the insurance industry: take care of toxic mold claims adequately and promptly or risk being assessed millions of dollars.That warning came in the form of a $32-million award to a...
Jun 18 2001 // At the 2001 AAMGA Annual Meeting, held May 20-24 in Indian Wells, Calif., at least one topic of discussion was as intense as the desert sun—all current indications clearly reflect a tightening of the market. There are...
Jun 18 2001 // Comercial America: Dutch financial services conglomerate ING Group said it has agreed to buy an additional 45 percent stake in Seguros Comercial America (SCA) for $791 million. The deal is part of a step taken in February...
Jun 11 2001 // At the 2001 AAMGA Annual Meeting, held May 20-24 in Indian Wells, Calif., at least one topic of discussion was as intense as the desert sun—all current indications clearly reflect a tightening of the market. There are...
Jun 11 2001 // What’s the biggest problem area in the California insurance market these days?” When asked that question, most in the know would probably, without any hesitation, reply, “Workers’ comp.”But...
Jun 11 2001 // They came offering a wide array of products and services as the 50th Annual San Diego “I”-Day rolled into the downtown Convention Center June 1.More than 70 exhibitors turned out for the event, which also...
Jun 4 2001 // The London insurance market achieved two significant milestones recently with the admission to Lloyd’s membership of three non-U.K.-based brokers, and the launch of Ins-sure Services, Ltd., which will assume the...
Jun 1 2001 // The Information Products Group of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. unveiled a new version of its Home Replacement Cost Estimator, renamed the Replacement Cost Calculator. According to the company, the new version...
May 31 2001 // Stockholders for Conn.-based CyberOpticLabs Inc. gave their approval to a change in the company’s name to Cordia Corporation.Cordia Corp., a publicly-traded company which develops and offers industry specific...
May 22 2001 // IBM today announced it had joined the insurance industry’s nonprofit standards organization ACORD (the Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development).In joining ACORD, IBM brings its brings global...
May 22 2001 // Marshall & Swift, a publisher and source of building cost data and services to the insurance industry, announced the completion of its merger with E.H. Boeckh, a supplier of building cost information, and Digital...
May 21 2001 // The property/casualty industry may be facing a surge in asbestos claims that could cumulatively cost the industry as much as $65 billion. This new estimate of ultimate asbestos-related losses is nearly two-thirds higher...