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American Claims Management Announces New Business Relationship with Zurich

Dec 20 2010 // CLARIFICATION OF RELEASE SENT ON 12/20/2010San Diego, CA 12/21/10 – American Claims Management, Inc. (ACM) announces a new business relationship with Zurich North America Commercial’s Programs business...

CompWest Announces Workers’ Comp Program for Golf, Country Clubs

Dec 16 2010 // CompWest Insurance Co. has joined with Club Learning Institute (CLI) to provide an exclusive workers’ compensation program for golf and country club business. The program is available to private and semi-private...

Allied World Reinsurance U.S. Launches Global Marine, Specialty Division

Dec 15 2010 // Allied World Reinsurance has launched a global Marine and Specialty Division that will initially offer reinsurance for marine, aviation, satellite and crop reinsurance on a global basis. Allied World Re U.S. has appointed...

Liberty International Underwriters Launches E&S Property Product

Dec 9 2010 // Liberty International Underwriters U.S. (LIU) has launched an Excess and Surplus Lines (E&S) Property product. This product provides wholesale brokers with a new market for their clients’ commercial property...

Calif. Regulators Announce 2011 Workers’ Comp Assessment Rates

Nov 30 2010 // The California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) has calculated the 2011 assessments that state law requires workers’ compensation insurers collect from policyholders to cover the budget of the state Division...

Newly Formed Aliseo Re Enters Global Retrocession Market

Nov 24 2010 // Barbados-based Aliseo Reinsurance SCC announced its entry into the global retrocession market with an initial capitalization of $300 million. Aliseo Re said it would “operate as a monoline retrocessionaire focusing...

ACE Global Engineering Network Launches Industry Fact Sheets

Oct 29 2010 // The ACE Global Engineering Network (AGEN), a division of the ACE Group of companies, has launched 12 fact sheets for its clients that provide an in-depth analysis of property risk management issues facing a range of...

Navigators Launches Specialty Reinsurance Business

Oct 29 2010 // The Navigators Group has established Navigators Re, a unit focused on developing specialty assumed reinsurance business.“As a global specialty insurer, there are certain product lines and geographies where a...

Liberty Northwest Launches Commercial Series for Small to Mid-Sized Businesses

Oct 27 2010 // Liberty Northwest, a Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company, today announced the launch of the Liberty Northwest Commercial Series, its insurance solution for small to medium-sized businesses. The portfolio...

American Safety Launches Professional Liability Product

Oct 21 2010 // American Safety Insurance (ASI) announces the launch of its professional liability unit, providing directors and officers (D&O) and errors and omissions (E&O) coverage for specialty risks. The team, lead by Peter...

Insurance Industry Unveils Massive $40 Million Disaster Research Center

Oct 20 2010 // A major research arm of the property insurance industry used giant fans to blow down a two-story, Midwestern-styled house yesterday as part of an unveiling ceremony for a massive new research facility in South Carolina.The...

Allied World Launches Management Liability for Healthcare Organizations

Oct 12 2010 // Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, announced today the introduction, by Allied World U.S., of its ForceField for Healthcare Organizations management liability standalone coverage solutions.ForceField for Healthcare...

Markel Launches Markel Management Liability

Oct 8 2010 // Markel Corporation has introduced Markel Management Liability, an integrated suite of coverages including directors’ & officers’ liability, employment practices liability, and fiduciary liability. The...

Insurer PURE Enters North Carolina High-End Coastal Home Market

Oct 7 2010 // An insurer specializing in pricey properties is moving into North Carolina with a particular eye toward coastal real estate.Privilege Underwriters Reciprocal Exchange (PURE) offers its homeowners insurance policies for...

Allied World U.S. Launches New Privacy Liability Product

Oct 6 2010 // Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, Ltd has launched a next generation of Allied World’s Privacy Liability product: Privacy//403v2.Privacy//403v2 is designed specifically for a broad spectrum of...

Venture Launches Mono-line Umbrella Coverage for Golf, Country Clubs

Oct 4 2010 // Venture Insurance Programs has launched ClubCover, a new mono-line umbrella liability coverage for golf and country clubs offering proper limits, more cost-effective premiums and a fast, easy online system.ClubCover...

MDAdvantage Launches Protection for Business Side of Medicine

Oct 1 2010 // To help New Jersey physicians protect against the rising number of business risks beyond the practice of medicine, MDAdvantage has introduced Supreme Advantage insurance for employment practices liability, privacy and data...

Five Star Specialty Programs Launches Healthcare Practice

Sep 30 2010 // Five Star Specialty Programs, a division of Crump Insurance Services Inc. and part of Crump Group Inc., announced it is launching a new health care practice based in Sacramento, Calif. The practice, known as Five Star...

AmTrust Launches Contractors General Liability Program

Sep 27 2010 // AmTrust North America, a business unit of AmTrust Financial Services Inc. has formed a contractors general liability insurance program, a new underwriting classification available exclusively to licensed wholesale surplus...

Texas Workers’ Comp Division Announces August Enforcement Actions

Sep 24 2010 // Texas Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation Rod Bordelon recently announced final disciplinary actions taken in August by the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC)....