All the headlines from our Personal Lines Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 9 2009 // Buffalo, New York-based insurer, Merchants Insurance Group, has launched a new personal auto product in New York. The product, called Merchants Flexible Choice Auto, features significant rate reductions along with new...
Jan 7 2009 // Westfield Insurance will transfer its personal lines business in Delaware to The Main Street America Group’s NGM Insurance Co., Main Street said. Westfield, which is headquartered in Westfield Center, Ohio, entered...
Dec 31 2008 // Los Angeles-based GNW-Evergreen Insurance Services LLC has hired Tom Scabareti as its new dedicated personal lines producer. He will be responsible for bringing insurance products, services and solutions to high net worth...
Dec 29 2008 // MyMGA.com, a division of PersonalUmbrella.com of Emeryville, Calif., is offering comprehensive personal liability coverage in California. Features of the product include coverage for: • Vicious dog breeds; •...
Dec 11 2008 // White Plains, New York-based Privilege Underwriters Reciprocal Exchange (PURE) said it has received approval from the State of Connecticut Insurance Department sell homeowners’ insurance and other personal lines of...
Oct 27 2008 // AIG has named Anthony J. DeSantis as president and CEO of its Personal Auto Group. The Personal Auto Group includes aigdirect.com, the direct personal lines automobile insurance operations of American International Group,...
Oct 16 2008 // Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. has appointed Darryl Page president for the Personal Insurance division, and appointed Greg Meyer senior vice president, product management for the Personal Insurance division. Page joins...
Sep 9 2008 // The ACE Group of Companies has announced the appointment of Douglas Reynolds as head of international personal lines and small-to-medium enterprise (SME) business. He will be responsible for expanding ACE’s presence...
Sep 4 2008 // Hawaii-based Atlas Insurance Agency Inc. has appointed Lance Kawano as senior vice president of its Personal Lines division. Kawano previously was vice president and will continue to be responsible for the strategic...
Aug 21 2008 // Stock Prices: The soft market continues to have an effect on insurers’ stock prices. With the inability of insurers to grow in the current market, commercial insurers’ stocks are still falling, down 18 percent...
Aug 21 2008 // Too many customer service representatives (CSRs) have problematic issues when it comes to an essential element of their job. That element is the selling of insurance. Some consider this act to be overly difficult and, at...
Aug 15 2008 // The Hanover Insurance Group Inc. named Gary Y. Kusumi president of the company’s personal lines business. Kusumi will oversee the Worcester, Massachusetts-based company’s personal lines operations, including...
Jul 14 2008 // Giant insurer American International Group has decided to enter the Massachusetts private passenger auto insurance market, according to The Boston Globe.But AIG is not alone. In addition, Vermont Mutual will begin selling...
May 23 2008 // The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. is offering enhancements to its automobile and homeowners policies for towing, labor, and rental cars as well as waived deductibles and guaranteed policy renewals.The new personal...
May 5 2008 // Travelers Insurance is consolidating some of its personal lines business center activities across the country, a plan that will mean fewer jobs in Massachusetts and New Jersey but more in upstate New York.Travelers...
May 1 2008 // The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. in Worcester, Mass., reported a drop in net income, an increase in commercial lines business and higher losses on personal lines for the first quarter of 2008.The company’s net...
Apr 23 2008 // Tustin, Calif.-based National Advantage Insurance Services Inc. (NAIS) has added American Modern Insurance Co. as another new admitted carrier for personal lines.“We are pleased to make this admitted carrier...
Apr 15 2008 // Travelers Insurance is consolidating some of its personal lines business center activities across the country, a plan that will mean fewer jobs in Massachusetts and New Jersey but more in upstate New York.Travelers...
Apr 7 2008 // The Main Street America Group introduced its new Personal Auto MVP (multivariate rating program) product to its independent insurance agents in Maryland and Tennessee, bringing the total now to nine states.Personal Auto...
Mar 19 2008 // The decision by his company more than a decade ago to exit personal lines was a “great” decision, says William R. Berkley, founder of W.R. Berkley Corp.“[W]e decided that the political arena for personal...