All the headlines from our Personal Lines Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 19 2008 // Burns & Wilcox named Emily Westra as a personal lines underwriter in the company’s Denver office. Westra will be responsible for developing and expanding the office’s personal lines business both locally...
Mar 14 2008 // The State Auto Insurance Companies said it will begin offering personal insurance products in Texas on March 15, less than a year after the Columbus, Ohio-based insurer acquired Beacon Insurance Group of Wichita...
Mar 14 2008 // Burns & Wilcox has promoted Kathryn Hardy promoted to personal lines underwriter at its Sacramento, Calif., office. She joined the company in 2002 as an assistant underwriter. Hardy will be responsible for growing the...
Mar 10 2008 // Credit rating organization A.M. Best Co. issued a prediction for a stable outlook in the personal lines insurance segment this year, based on what it sees as continued operating profitability, strong balance sheets and...
Feb 29 2008 // James Schumann, president of American Aim Insurance Agency, Inc., announced the appointment of Samantha Russell as head of the personal lines division at the company’s office in Fair Oaks, Calif. Russell will serve...
Feb 28 2008 // Ohio Casualty, a Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company, recently announced the introduction of its new personal lines product offering in Ohio, including enhanced rating capabilities via Personal IQ, the...
Feb 26 2008 // Credit rating organization A.M. Best Co. issued a prediction for a stable outlook in the personal lines insurance segment this year, based on what it sees as continued operating profitability, strong balance sheets and...
Feb 24 2008 // Like it or not, personal automobile insurance, along with personal computers, has evolved into a commodity product. According to Wikipedia, a commodity is defined as “a largely homogeneous product, traded solely on...
Feb 13 2008 // Andrew Lerner has joined the Demetriou General Agency as director of personal lines. He will oversee a staff of 15. Lerner brings 23 years of agency experience to Demetriou General Agency. He has owned several agency...
Feb 13 2008 // Thomas Newgarden has joined Seattle-based Safeco as senior vice president of underwriting for Safeco Personal Insurance. Previously, Newgarden was senior vice president and chief underwriting officer of AIG Private Client...
Jan 4 2008 // New Jersey auto insurance agents will have a lot easier time quoting and writing new policies under a bill signed yesterday by Gov. Jon S. Corzine.The bill, which had awaited his signature since last month, eliminates the...
Dec 20 2007 // The Atlantic Companies, also known as Atlantic Mutual, has sold its high-net-worth personal lines insurance business to The ACE Group of Companies for an undisclosed price.The deal, expected to close in 30 days, gives ACE...
Dec 4 2007 // U.S. personal lines insurance sector is at a critical juncture, according to an article published by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services. The article, which is titled “2008 U.S. Personal Lines Outlook: A...
Nov 15 2007 // Lexington Insurance Co., a member company of American International Group Inc. introduced Upgrade To Green Residential, an insurance coverage allowing U.S. homeowner policyholders to rebuild their property to...
Nov 2 2007 // Grange Insurance Association based in Seattle has launched a new pricing program for personal auto in Colorado, Idaho, Oregon and Wyoming “GIA’s tiered auto program will position our agents to be more...
Nov 1 2007 // Liberty Mutual Group reported net operating income of $390 million for the three months ended September 30, 2007, an increase of $3 million over the same period in 2006.Results in the quarter include a 9.6% increase in...
Oct 17 2007 // When a series of killer hurricanes walloped the Gulf Coast in 2005, costing Allstate Corp. a record quarterly loss of $1.55 billion, the company tried to make sure its bottom line would never be hit so hard again.The...
Oct 15 2007 // Abram Interstate Insurance Services Inc. in Rocklin, Calif., is offering a personal auto program in California. The policy provides collision coverage, comprehensive coverage, bodily injury liability, property damage...
Sep 28 2007 // Babcock & Helliwell, an agency in Wakefield, R.I., recently appointed Susana M. Duarte as an account manager for personal lines insurance. She will be responsible for the sales and servicing of personal lines...
Sep 25 2007 // A sheriff’s deputy who was run over by his own police vehicle after it was stolen by a Jefferson man on Christmas five years ago is entitled to compensation from his personal car insurance company, Maine’s...