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May 23 2005 // MASSACHUSETTSSafe Driver Plan Revised: Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Julie M. Bowler has approved changes in the way drivers receive discounts and surcharges to their auto insurance policies based on their driving...

Best: Mercer Group Ratings Remain Unchanged Following FPIG Purchase

May 6 2005 // A.M. Best Co. reported that the financial strength rating of A (Excellent) and the stable rating outlook on the subsidiaries of New Jersey-based Mercer Insurance Group Inc. (MIGP) remain unchanged following the...

Guy Carpenter Will Disclose Compensation for Facultative Placements Worldwide

May 5 2005 // Guy Carpenter & Company Inc. announced that its policy regarding disclosure of compensation to clients has been extended to include facultative placements worldwide.Previously, Guy Carpenter announced its commitment...

Guy Carpenter Publishes Specialty Program Survey

May 3 2005 // Guy Carpenter & Company Inc., a global risk and reinsurance specialist and a part of the Marsh & McLennan Companies, has announced the results of its premier survey of domestic insurance companies that write a...

MMC Unveils Q1 Numbers; Cherkasky: Steps Taken to Make Us Stronger

May 3 2005 // Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc. (MMC) on Tuesday reported financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2005.Consolidated revenues totaled $3.2 billion, and net income was $134 million, or $.25 per share. These...

N.J.’s Mercer to Purchase Calif.’s Financial Pacific

May 2 2005 // Mercer Insurance Group Inc. and Financial Pacific Insurance Group Inc. jointly announced that they have signed a plan of merger for Mercer to acquire all the outstanding stock of Financial Pacific for approximately $40.4...

Downgrade of Calif. Auto Company Results from Reinsurance Broker Error

Apr 1 2005 // Effective immediately, AM Best has downgraded Workmen’s Auto Insurance Company from a B++ to a B(u), citing the company’s drop in surplus as the main reason for the downgrade.The company has filed a lawsuit...

Guy Carpenter, MMC Securities Cat Bond Market Update Sees Increased Growth

Apr 1 2005 // Guy Carpenter & Company, Inc., the global risk and reinsurance specialist and a part of the Marsh & McLennan Companies, and its affiliate MMC Securities Corp. announced the release of their joint study of the...

S&P Takes MMC off CreditWatch; Affirms ‘BBB’ Rating, Negative Outlook

Mar 25 2005 // Standard & Poor’s Rating Services announced that it has affirmed its “BBB” counterparty credit and senior unsecured debt ratings and ‘A-2’ commercial paper ratings on Marsh &...

MarshMac Emerges from Difficult Year with Downsizing and Disclosure Plan

Mar 21 2005 // Marsh Will Drop ‘Unprofitable’ Accounts But MMC Will Keep Putnam and Mercer UnitsGiant insurance broker Marsh, battered by regulators, soft market prices and competitors in 2004, plans on dropping thousands of...

Labor Department Subpoenas Marsh & McLennan Over Benefit Services; Sale of MMC Capital Progresses

Mar 10 2005 // In its annual report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Marsh & McLennan reported that the U.S. Department of Labor last month served the firm with a subpoena seeking documents related to the...

MMC Downsizing Plan Includes Dropping ‘Unprofitable’ Marsh Accounts But Not Selling Putnam or Mercer

Mar 2 2005 // Giant insurance broker Marsh, battered by regulators, soft market prices and competitors in 2004, plans on dropping thousands of unprofitable U.S. middle and small market accounts as it implements its new business model...

Marsh & McLennan Faces Off with Insurance Journal Readers

Feb 21 2005 // The street has become a superhighway, far removed from the clubby atmosphere of Los Angeles’ Wilshire Blvd. or New York’s Pine Street. Anybody can now comment on the latest industry happenings over the...

People & Places

Feb 21 2005 // Encino, Calif.-based NAS Insurance Services has appointed Jeannie Davila as assistant vice president in charge of its new E&S Property Insurance facility. Davila brings 30 years of insurance experience to her new...

Fla. Attorney General Comments on Marsh Agreement

Jan 31 2005 // Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist, released the following statement after the announcement of an $850 million settlement between Marsh & McLennan and the New York State Attorney General and the Superintendent of...

Marsh Reaches $850M Deal With N.Y. AG Spitzer and Insurance Department

Jan 31 2005 // Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. (MMC) today confirmed an agreement with the New York State Attorney General and the Superintendent of the New York State Insurance Department that resolves the actions that were...

MMC Announces Organization Changes at Mercer

Jan 27 2005 // Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc. (MMC) announced a number of organizational and management changes within Mercer Inc., one of the world’s largest consulting firms, providing services on issues that face the...

Guy Carpenter Publishes Marine & Energy Report on Reinsurance Marketplace

Jan 25 2005 // Guy Carpenter & Company Inc., Marsh & McLennan’s reinsurance specialist, has released its comprehensive Marine & Energy Reinsurance Review Report 2005, which identifies key influences driving...

$750 MILLION WILL SETTLE MARSH LAWSUIT

Jan 24 2005 // New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is seeking a $750 million settlement from insurance broker Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc. to settle his bid-rigging and price-fixing charges, according to a report published...

Spitzer: $750 Million, Apology Will Settle Marsh Lawsuit

Jan 15 2005 // New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is seeking a $750 million settlement from insurance broker Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc. to settle his bid-rigging and price-fixing charges, according to a report published...