All the headlines from our New Markets Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 16 2008 // The California Department of Industrial Relations has launched an Insurance Coverage Program, an enforcement program designed to identify and target employers who fail to carry workers’ compensation insurance. DIR...
Jun 11 2008 // The South Carolina Medical Association launched its new subsidiary, the South Carolina Physician Assurance Co. The new insurance company will provide medical malpractice coverage to qualifying physicians who are members of...
Jun 9 2008 // Philadelphia Insurance Companies (PHLY) has introduced a new coverage product aimed at substance abuse rehabilitation facilities. The product covers general and professional liability, automobile and property for...
Jun 6 2008 // The California Department of Industrial Relations has launched an Insurance Coverage Program, an enforcement program designed to identify and target employers who fail to carry workers’ compensation insurance. DIR...
Jun 4 2008 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company has partnered with Hilb, Rogal and Hobbs (HRH) to offer a workers’ compensation purchasing group for hotels, motels, bed and breakfasts, and hospitality groups.Members of the Texas...
Jun 3 2008 // Philadelphia Consolidated Holding Corp. (PHLY) has launched a new line of insurance products aimed at home health care and hospice services. The new line offers general liability, professional liability, property,...
May 29 2008 // U.S. Risk Underwriters, a subsidiary of U.S. Risk Insurance Group, Inc. launched a new professional liability product for the medical tourism industry called MedTour Pro.MedTour Pro is designed for medical tourism...
May 22 2008 // Woodbridge, N.J.-based NIP Programs, a division of NIP Group Inc., said it will now cover paving contractors as part of its SitePro insurance program for site improvement and excavation contractors.NIP Programs, which...
May 19 2008 // The largest satellite “launch insurance package ever placed has been completed by broker Willis Inspace, with a Lloyd’s underwriter leading the risk,” for Europe’s Eutelsat, the world’s third...
May 15 2008 // “Businesses could be facing a future liability crisis if they do not face up to growing litigation issues,” Lloyd’s warns in its latest report -“‘Directors in the Dock – is business...
May 15 2008 // Specialty Insurance Managers Inc. CEO Frank R. Berry and President Diana G. Berry are retiring. The Austin, Texas-based managing general agency chose to perpetuate by passing the leadership of the firm to Mike Berry,...
May 1 2008 // Progressive Insurance begins selling personal auto insurance online in Massachusetts today.Meanwhile, Casco Indemnity, which writes auto insurance in the other New England states on behalf of several mutual fire insurers,...
Apr 11 2008 // Safety National Casualty Corp., a Missouri-based provider of excess workers’ compensation insurance, has launched a new program for non-subscriber employers in Texas. This new program, TExcess, provides excess...
Apr 7 2008 // The Texas Supreme Court has agreed to rehear a case from Jefferson County dealing with the scope of the state workers’ compensation law.The court has not yet set the date for new arguments but said April 5 it will...
Apr 4 2008 // Business lobbyists from the United States will descend on the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Geneva next week to push for favorable terms in a new trade deal, a source familiar with the visits said on Friday.The visits...
Apr 3 2008 // Liberty Mutual Agency Markets has announced a new product line and distribution channel for its newly-created Specialty Products Group, which has been formed by the consolidation of Liberty Mutual Surety, the former Ohio...
Apr 1 2008 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance has issued procedures for the first round of depopulation of Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corporation (LCPIC).The procedures were established at a meeting on March 14, 2008....
Mar 31 2008 // March 31, 2008 – London American Risk Specialists, Inc an independently owned & operated surplus lines/ wholesale brokerage firm, headquartered in Houston, TX, announces a new A.M. Best Rated A XV admitted...
Mar 31 2008 // Arkansas was spared widespread storms Saturday but remained waterlogged from non-stop flooding that began nearly two weeks ago.Storms hit isolated areas and residents along the White River in east Arkansas and the Black...
Mar 20 2008 // The ACE European Group announced the launch of Dataguard plus, an insurance solution for UK businesses which fully reflects the diversity of risks associated with e-commerce and the Internet.ACE said the Dataguard plus...