All the headlines from our New Markets Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 21 2006 // MarketScout, the Dallas Texas based eInsurance Exchange, has launched a new exclusive Monoline Energy Workers’ Compensation program. The facility accepts most class codes related to the energy industry, including...
Nov 16 2006 // Richfield, Ohio-based National Interstate Corp. recently announced that its principal insurance subsidiary National Interstate Insurance Co. has added a commercial vehicle product to its offering. The new product line,...
Nov 15 2006 // The New York State Insurance Dpartment has made available a 2006 Consumer Guide to Automobile Insurance online and in hard-copy form. The department hasalso added an online interactive auto insurance sample premium...
Nov 14 2006 // The Delaware Department of Insurance has created a website that will allow consumers to compare auto insurance rates from more than 50 companies that offer auto insurance in Delaware. The site will use more sample customer...
Nov 9 2006 // A bulletin on the Lloyd’s Website (www.lloyds.com) announced that its underwriters are “to provide the capacity for what is believed to be a world first for shipowners. The policy, Seacure60 is a cancellation...
Nov 2 2006 // Administrators for the Professions of Delaware Inc. introduced a new market for law firms with one to 15 attorneys that have disciplinary or frequency/severity issues. Firms performing high risk areas of practice (e.g.,...
Oct 24 2006 // San Francisco-based Crawley Warren Insurance Services Inc. has a new customized high value homeowners program (HVH) for high net worth clients in California. The nonadmitted product is designed for dwellings more than...
Oct 17 2006 // FindLocalInsurance.com, a network of insurance and financial Web sites has created a national directory of business insurance agents.InsureMyWork.com is now taking listing orders from business insurance agents. This site...
Oct 17 2006 // Instantaneous validation of employer workers’ compensation coverage is now available online in West Virginia.The Coverage Validation System (CVS) provides government agencies, contractors and other businesses that...
Oct 16 2006 // Newtown, PA – ProLawyer Insurance, LLC is pleased to announce their Managing General Agent appointment with an A.M. Best “A” (Excellent) rated carrier for Lawyers Professional Liability in Delaware,...
Oct 12 2006 // 21st Century Insurance Group, one of the pioneers of selling insurance direct to consumers, today began offering private passenger automobile insurance to drivers in New Jersey.The company becomes the seventh auto writer...
Oct 10 2006 // The Insurance Council of Texas is hosting workers’ compensation seminars on Nov. 7 and Nov. 15 that focus and provide training on the new rules adopted by the Division of Workers’ Compensation to implement...
Oct 9 2006 // Countrywide Financial Corp. has announced that Countrywide Insurance Group’s auto insurance product is now available to consumers in Arizona. Quotes can be obtained by calling a licensed auto insurance agent at...
Oct 9 2006 // Countrywide Financial Corp. has announced that Countrywide Insurance Group’s auto insurance product is now available to consumers in Arizona. Quotes can be obtained by calling a licensed auto insurance agent at...
Oct 4 2006 // Property and casualty insurer Pacific Specialty Insurance Co., Menlo Park, Calif., is launching a new homeowners program in Arizona. Homeowners (HO-3), renters (HO-4) and unit-owners (HO-6) policies will now be offered,...
Sep 29 2006 // Insurance Australia Group Limited (IAG) has acquired the U.K.-based broker Hastings Insurance Services Limited, the UK’s fifth largest motor insurance broker trading under the names of Hastings Direct and Peoples...
Sep 27 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation announced it has determined that any interest or discount provided for in the Texas Workers’ Compensation Act shall be at the rate of 8.53...
Sep 21 2006 // Tampa, Fla.-based Wolf Professional Risk Inc., a wholesale brokerage firm, will begin offering services within the professional liability marketplace. The firm will initially focus on products that provide coverage for...
Sep 14 2006 // Armonk, N.Y.-based Hiscox USA, the U.S. subsidiary of Hiscox plc, will begin providing terrorism insurance in the United States.“Hiscox has over 25 years of experience in terrorism insurance and we are a global...
Sep 12 2006 // Oxygen Insurance Brokers, the Lloyd’s accredited broking operation of the London market insurance intermediary, announced the launch of Oxygen Re, to provide “all types of non-marine, marine and aviation treaty...