All the headlines from our Allied Insurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 18 2003 // Property/casualty insurers interested in insuring privately owned watercraft can sign up for a Web-based seminar Thursday, April 3, on the Boatowners Program offered by the American Association of Insurance Services...
Jan 9 2003 // A.M. Best Co. announced that it has assigned indicative ratings of “a” senior debt, “a-” subordinated debt, “a-” preferred securities and “bbb+” preferred stock, to...
Jan 8 2003 // Fireman’s Fund McGee Marine Underwriters is making FOCUS(SM), its new e-solution for managing ocean cargo insurance, available to agents/brokers and their clients on a nationwide basis.The FOCUS Solution, which...
Jan 6 2003 // Ohio-based Nationwide Insurance announced that Linda Roubinek, the company’s Insurance Systems Officer, has been recognized by IDG’s Computerworld, the weekly newspaper for IT leaders, as “one of the...
Dec 10 2002 // Ohio-based Nationwide Insurance reported that it expects to receive more than 11,000 claims from the recent winter storms in North Carolina and South Carolina, and estimates insured policyholder losses eventually could be...
Nov 18 2002 // The Beaumont Court of Appeals in Texas has departed from state law in its improper certification of a nationwide class action suit that would ultimately make law for the entire country, according to the National...
Nov 14 2002 // Ohio-based Nationwide Insurance, the country’s fourth largest homeowners’ insurer, announced that it estimates that insured policyholder losses from last weekend’s tornadoes and hail storms could be more...
Nov 5 2002 // Ohio’s Nationwide Insurance has issued a bulletin with the headline “Quake Rumblings Could Surprise Midwesterners,” which, as the company points out, is indeed surprising. Midwesterners may fear...
Oct 14 2002 // The 2001 premium and loss data for Texas verifies everything you heard from the insurance companies — it was a really bad year. Here are the highlights in review: • Texas accounts for 7 percent of the national premium...
Sep 30 2002 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) has cleared the way for insurers to provide expanded homeowners coverage options by approving both the Insurance Services Office Inc.’s (ISO) Homeowners 2000 program and new...
Sep 27 2002 // Columbus Ohio-based Nationwide announced the election of Edwin P. McCausland Jr., CFA, as the company’s chief investment officer. “McCausland joined Nationwide in 1997 and most recently served as senior vice...
Sep 25 2002 // Dallas-based NationWide Flood Research Inc. (NFRI) announced it has launched AtRisk, a three-step marketing service that helps insurance professionals locate potential customers and cross-sell flood policies to existing...
Sep 18 2002 // Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company announced the retirement of Robert A. Oakley, Executive VP and CFO, effective January 31, 2003. He will also retire from the same position at the company’s publicly traded...
Apr 29 2002 // You’re leaving money on the table, and there are savings to be added if you’re willing to spend some energy looking for it.”Those are the sentiments of Alex Ho, consumer brand director for Progressive...
Mar 28 2002 // CalFarm Nationwide Insurance has been ordered to pay $2.6 million to a former Sacramento resident after a jury found the company guilty of allegedly deceiving the man into relocating to California to take on a position,...
Feb 19 2002 // Nationwide Holdings is seeking “substantial” damages from France’s AXA Group as a result of the money laundering scandal that affected PanEuroLife, a Luxembourg-based insurer which Nationwide acquired in...
Jan 11 2002 // According to a Standard & Poor’s study released Jan. 9, the effects of the Sept. 11 attacks are taking a toll on workers compensation insurers. Rates are ready to rise and it has become increasingly difficult...
Dec 28 2001 // Ohio-based Nationwide announced it has settled its federal trademark infringement suit against two Florida insurance companies, Nationwide Insurance Group Inc. and The Nationwide Companies. The suit, filed with the Federal...
Dec 7 2001 // Nationwide Insurance will participate in an automobile safety clinic, including donating 50 car seats, for Hispanic families in Annapolis, Maryland, as part of a safety campaign aimed at reducing the number of fatal...
Nov 30 2001 // Chicago-based Fitch has assigned an “A+” rating to the $400-million surplus note offering by Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company (Nationwide Mutual). Fitch also carries a “AA” rating on the insurer...