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Lloyd’s Nanotechnology Conference and Report Examines New Risks

Dec 11 2007 // Lloyd’s held its first ever seminar on nanotechnology on Monday, Dec. 10. The conference was organized in cooperation with the Lighthill Risk Network, (http://www.lighthillrisknetwork.org), a non-profit organization...

White House Declares Washington Major Disaster Area

Dec 10 2007 // President George W. Bush has declared a major disaster exists in the State of Washington and ordered federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area struck by severe storms, flooding, landslides, and...

State Auto Exec. to Discuss Texas Market at Dallas All-Industry Day

Nov 15 2007 // Columbus, Ohio-based State Auto Insurance Companies Executive Vice President and COO Mark Blackburn will offer his view of Texas, the nation’s third-largest property and casualty market, at the 2007 Dallas...

National Crime Bureau Offers Free VINCheck for Unrecovered Vehicles

Nov 7 2007 // The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB), based in Des Plaines, Ill., recently announced that it has launched a free service to help protect the nation’s consumers.Over one million vehicles have been stolen...

Mo. Dept. Hosts Training Course on Insurance Fraud for Investigators

Nov 7 2007 // The Missouri Department of Insurance’s Consumer Affairs Division today announced it will host a training course for state and local government special investigators on Friday, Nov. 9 in Jefferson City at the Harry S....

ACE pays $4.5 million to states

Nov 4 2007 // ACE Group Holdings has agreed to pay $4.5 million to end a bid-rigging and price-fixing case, according to officials from eight states and the District of Columbia.Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink said ACE...

ACE pays $4.5 million to states

Nov 4 2007 // ACE Group Holdings has agreed to pay $4.5 million to end a bid-rigging and price-fixing case, according to officials from eight states and the District of Columbia.Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink said ACE...

ACE pays $4.5 million to states

Nov 4 2007 // ACE Group Holdings has agreed to pay $4.5 million to end a bid-rigging and price-fixing case, according to state officials. The monies will be divided among eight states and the District of Columbia.Florida’s Chief...

Declarations

Nov 4 2007 // CEA Charges“The idea was originally that the CEA (California Earthquake Authority) would have enough funds over time … and wouldn’t need that industry assessment layer. … Theoretically we should...

How to Beat the Soft Market Blues

Nov 4 2007 // The market for management liability coverages is soft. Premiums are down, which means revenues are down. Yet there still are tremendous opportunities for proactive agents and brokers to sell the coverages, according to...

Catering to wealthy individuals

Oct 27 2007 // Most high net worth individuals already complete their personal insurance package with excess liability coverage, or the personal umbrella liability. Even so there could be opportunities missed in meeting the umbrella...

ACE Insurance Pays $4.5 Million to Settle Multi-state Bid-rigging Claims

Oct 26 2007 // ACE Group Holdings has agreed to pay $4.5 million to end a bid-rigging and price-fixing case, according to state officials. The monies will be divided among eight states and the District of Columbia.Florida’s Chief...

Nonprofits Insurance Alliance Appoints Aday VP Finance/Treasurer

Oct 22 2007 // The Nonprofits Insurance Alliance Group in Santa Cruz, Calif., has appointed Kim Aday to vice president finance/treasurer. Aday joined the group in 1997 in the position of accountant. In early 2001, she was promoted to...

Accident Fund Establishes New National Headquarters in Historic Building

Oct 9 2007 // Lansing, Mich.-based Accident Fund Insurance Company of America, announced Monday it will establish its new national corporate headquarters in the Lansing Board of Water & Light’s Ottawa Street Station power...

Ohio Seminar’s Focus to be School Weapons, Sexual Misconduct

Oct 5 2007 // Indiana Insurance and Ohio Casualty, both members of Liberty Mutual Group, have announced that they will co-sponsor the continuing series of Safer Schools Seminars at The Ohio State University Fawcett Center on Thursday,...

Md. Task Forces Hears From Industry on Need for Stronger Structures

Oct 4 2007 // Opportunities exist in the public and private sectors to increase the disaster resistance of homes and businesses and contribute to the overall health of Maryland’s insurance market, says Harvey Ryland, president and...

Swiss Re Launches Climate Program

Sep 27 2007 // Swiss Re announced the launch of its “Climate Adaptation Development Program” (CADP) at the Clinton Global Initiative 2007 meeting, which took place in New York on Sept.26-28.The Program is “designed to...

Catastrophes: There is no free lunch

Sep 24 2007 // Any study that implies consumers and taxpayers have thousands of years to realize savings is immediately suspect.Since the devastating hurricane seasons of 2004 and 2005, some Florida politicians and a few insurers have...

AIG Executive Liability Introduces Not-for-Profit Risks Package

Sep 12 2007 // AIG Executive Liability, a division of the property-casualty insurance subsidiaries of American International Group, Inc. (AIG), is now offering Not-for-Profit Risk Protector, a modular package of management liability...

Swiss Re Backs African Weather Derivative Drought Coverage

Sep 7 2007 // Swiss Re, in conjunction with the Earth Institute at Columbia University and the Millennium Promise Alliance, have developed a new system of weather derivative contracts, providing protecting to several villages in Kenya,...