All the headlines from our New Markets Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 10 2002 // The St. Paul companies has introduced St. Paul SelectOne(SM) for Investment Advisers, a professional liability product designed to help protect investment advisers from the risks associated with providing services to their...
Apr 15 2002 // Fireman’s Fund Insurance has developed a new software program, designed specifically to help agents better serve their customers. The software, iCustomer Series, is targeted at middle market businesses concentrated...
Apr 9 2002 // Insurance industry and consumer groups have joined together to launch an extensive advertising campaign aimed at building support for their efforts to bring about reforms in New Jersey’s automobile insurance...
Apr 4 2002 // Allenbrook, Inc., a provider of automation and consulting services for the property and casualty industry, and Blue Cod Technologies, Inc., a provider of customer service and work-management software solutions, announced...
Mar 28 2002 // Docucorp® International, a provider of enterprise information solutions, announced a marketing agreement with AscendantOne(TM) Inc., architects of next generation front office insurance technology. Through this marketing...
Mar 18 2002 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) will propose 12 market regulation recommendations that state insurance regulators should incorporate as they develop a more analytical approach to market...
Mar 6 2002 // The St. Paul Companies announced the launch of a new web-based tool to assist agents with obtaining single entry, real-time quotes for small commercial products. The tool was developed to be compatible with the quoting...
Mar 1 2002 // Ohio-based State Auto Financial Corporation, a regional property and casualty insurance holding company reported net losses for the fourth quarter of 2001 and increased revenues for the year. The company, which primarily...
Feb 19 2002 // Boston’s Plymouth Rock Assurance Corp. recently received approval from the Connecticut Insurance Department to begin writing personal automobile insurance in the neighboring state. The company is in the process of...
Feb 7 2002 // OneBeacon Insurance Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd., announced its entrance into the Directors and Officers Liability and Professional Liability insurance markets under the name...
Feb 5 2002 // Zurich North America has introduced a new tool to better evaluate business interruption exposures and calculate coverage needs.Going forward, Zurich will use the tool, known as the Business Interruption Coverage...
Jan 8 2002 // SCSI, a producer of real-time information systems for data access and management, and Vitria, a collaboration platform and collaborative applications provider, announced a partnership to serve the property and casualty...
Dec 28 2001 // Kemper Insurance Companies has enhanced its line of Kemper Premier business owners’ policies with a new specialty coverage tailored for accounting firms. The new endorsement offers property, liability and accounting...
Dec 19 2001 // Connecticut-based W.R. Berkley Corp. announced it will enter the excess medical malpractice market with the formation of Berkley Medical Excess Underwriters, LLC., based in St. Louis, Missouri, which will underwrite on...
Dec 3 2001 // Advanced Risk Technologies (ART) Insurance Services, a leader in providing risk management services including loss control, first aid claims administration, and claims management services, announced a new third party...
Sep 19 2001 // The Midland Company, a highly focused provider of specialty insurance products and services, announced that American Modern Insurance Group, its insurance subsidiary, will cease offering the commercial liability coverages...
Sep 7 2001 // HCC Insurance Holdings Inc. announced that effective Oct. 1, 2001, it will begin offering surety coverages through its wholly owned subsidiary, U.S. Specialty Insurance Company (USSIC). In this regard, HCC has appointed...
Aug 23 2001 // Esurance Inc., a nationwide direct-to-consumer personal auto insurance provider and subsidiary of Folksamerica Holding Company Inc., along with San Francisco-based Patelco Credit Union, announced the launch of the first...
Aug 21 2001 // FileNET Corp., a provider of business process management solutions, announced the availability of Acenza Underwriting and Policy Administration, the latest addition to FileNET’s Acenza for Insurance suite of...
Aug 20 2001 // Aquila, Inc., the Kansas City-based energy and risk management company, announced that it has entered into a partnership agreement with Australia’s Macquarie Bank to begin marketing weather derivative products there...