All the headlines from our New Markets Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 16 2006 // In response to unmet capacity needs created by the devastating natural disasters of 2005, International Catastrophe Insurance Managers, LLC (ICAT), and National Fire and Marine Insurance Company (Berkshire Hathaway Group)...
Mar 9 2006 // Meadowbrook Insurance Group Inc. has hired the team of insurance professionals from Nevada CompFirst Inc. and Med West Inc. of Nevada to strengthen its presence in Nevada’s self-insured workers’ compensation...
Mar 8 2006 // Germany’s Hannover Re has announced a fundamental restructuring its U.S. primary insurance business. “All specialty business – henceforth the strategic focus – is to be transferred to the newly...
Mar 7 2006 // Environmental Insurance Program Manager, Freberg Environmental, Inc. (FEI) has launched an excess automobile liability program with an A.M. Best rated “A VIII” domestic insurance company. The excess auto...
Mar 2 2006 // The Boston-based OneBeacon Insurance Group announced that its ocean marine division — International Marine Underwriters (IMU) — has launched a new Web-based cargo insurance service platform:...
Feb 27 2006 // Guy Carpenter & Company Inc. and MMC Securities Corp., an affiliate of Guy Carpenter, reported the publication of The Catastrophe Bond Market at Year-End 2005: Ripple Effects from Record Storms, their fourth annual...
Feb 15 2006 // Specialty lines insurer Beazley reported the availability of coverage for wage and hour claims as an extension of its employment practices liability (EPL) coverage.The wage and hour coverage is available and separately...
Feb 14 2006 // The AI RiskSM Specialist Insurance Inc., a member company of American International Group, Inc. (AIG), has introduced a Special Events Liability Insurance Program that provides both general liability and accidental death...
Feb 9 2006 // CHOICE Medical Management Services, LLC has launched the first ever comprehensive workers’ compensation physician practice analysis.“This is the first provider analysis in the industry using data from the whole...
Feb 7 2006 // National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, Pa., a member company of American International Group Inc., has launched ManagementRisk Protector (MRP), a package of management liability insurance coverages targeted...
Jan 31 2006 // Guy Carpenter & Company Inc. reported the publication of Property Specialty Update – 1 January 2006 Renewal Season Overview, an in-depth report on the Jan. 1, 2006 property renewal season.The study, which...
Jan 31 2006 // Specialty Global Insurance has launched its nationwide miscellaneous E&O program with Everest Indemnity Insurance Company, a member of the Everest Re Group Ltd. As Everest’s underwriting and claims manager for...
Jan 24 2006 // Specialty Global Insurance is launching a nationwide Travel Agents E&O program. The new program is designed for travel agents and tour operators with gross written receipts of $5,000,000 or more. Specialty Global...
Jan 23 2006 // Virginia Governor Timothy M. Kaine is proposing an increase in the state’s auto insurance premium fee and a hike in the auto sales and use tax as part of a broad multi–year transportation initiative.The $3.7...
Jan 16 2006 // RISC Inc. announced it is rolling out a new commercial auto market in Oklahoma.Coverage highlight include: –Service vehicles of all types –Waste disposal; salvage and recycling operations –Oil Lease...
Jan 16 2006 // Morgan Hill, Calif.-based DMI Insurance Services Inc., has created a wholesale division that will specialize in E&S markets for independent auto dealers and automotive specialty shops. Tina Evans, an insurance...
Jan 11 2006 // InsureMe, an Englewood, Colo.-based consumer-agent link for buying insurance online, has created a blog to help online marketers. The blog will help share tips, tools and news, the company says. Unlike a corporate Web...
Jan 11 2006 // Allstate Corp. recently announced a partially completed new reinsurance program for its countrywide personal lines property and auto insurance business.The Northbrook, Illinois-based insurer said it has placed $750 million...
Jan 9 2006 // The National Flood Insurance Program has launched a FloodSmart Agents Web site to provide access to agent materials and new content in a password-protected agents-only section of www.FloodSmart.gov. After registering for a...
Jan 5 2006 // 30-second video spot to broadcast on insurance news web sites is first by a program administrator targeting agent and broker marketWest Chester, Pa.- Venture Insurance Programs (www.ventureprograms.com), a national program...