All the headlines from our New Markets Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 18 2000 // Kemper Casualty Company has launched an excess property insurance facility providing up to $50 million in capacity to domestic and U.S.-based multi-national, energy, industrial and commercial large risk customers. The...
Jul 10 2000 // A definitive purchase agreement has been signed for the acquisition of Columbus, Ohio-based Century Surety Group (CSG) for $31 million, to a consortium of financial entities led by CSG management. The transaction is...
Jul 7 2000 // Access CoverageCorp, an Internet provider of business insurance for small and medium-sized companies, and All-Biz.com, an online resource center for small businesses and entrepreneurs, have signed a co-branding agreement...
Jun 11 2000 // London based Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Corp. (HSBC) announced the launch of an interactive commercial insurance service for the U.K.’s small business community. Initially the service will offer commercial property...
Jun 8 2000 // Florida-based Bankers Insurance Company was recently approved to write homeowners policies in California.Doing business in the Golden State is nothing new for Bankers. As the country’s second largest flood carrier...
Jun 7 2000 // New Hampshire Insurance Co., a member of the AIG Group, announced that it would begin offering health care coverage in the U.K. for non-emergency medical procedures under a plan named “Healthnow.” The name is...
Jun 2 2000 // Hilb, Rogal and Hamilton Company has acquired substantially all of the assets of Granite Insurance Services, an insurance agency in Portland, Oregon. The acquisition establishes HRH’s initial presence in the Pacific...
May 31 2000 // CoverageCorp.com, a direct Internet provider of property and casualty insurance coverage for small and medium-sized business, and Microsoft bCentral have announced an agreement to offer CoverageCorp.com’s products to...
May 24 2000 // Cybersettle, the leading online claims settlement system is set to launch its service in the U.K., and hopes to repeat the success it has had resolving claims in the U.S.The U.K. effort will be headed by two old insurance...
May 19 2000 // Travelers Property Casualty has launched a new integrated business system for independent agents. The system exceeds the insurance industry’s standard platform by connecting all aspects of sales and service, allowing...
May 17 2000 // CoverageConnect, an Internet-based commercial insurance marketplace for small to mid-size businesses, plans to launch its new online commercial insurance marketplace web site over the summer. The site will serve as an...
May 11 2000 // CIGNA Group Insurance has aligned with Answer Financial, a privately owned developer of a financial services portal, to offer a 24-hour desktop insurance and financial services supermarket to company consumers...
Apr 18 2000 // Insure.com has introduced a new Small Business Insurance Forum, where readers can receive individual help with insurance problems. The forum joins insure.com’s other long-running forums focusing on auto, health, home...
Apr 13 2000 // The coverage offers developing countries, who issue debt securities, the possibility to acquire insurance coverage to protect “against currency inconvertibility and currency nontransfer risks in the country of the...
Apr 10 2000 // SAFECO has launched a new high-risk auto product in Texas called insurQuest, offering agents a multi-tiered compensation program including fee commissions.“With insurQuest, SAFECO’s agents who sell customers...
Apr 7 2000 // InsureZone began offering business insurance coverage online Thursday at InsureZone.com. Policies available on the InsureZone web site are targeted to businesses with 50 or fewer employees. Coverage includes business...