All the headlines from our Policyholder Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 29 2018 // A Massachusetts Appeals Court has ruled in favor of an insurer in a case involving an automobile accident in which the injured plaintiff sought to obtain underinsured motorist coverage under a policy held by the mother and...
Oct 18 2018 // In an effort to keep the Florida assignment of benefits (AOB) crisis from further worsening in the state, Florida’s insurance industry, regulators and consumer advocates are on high alert for AOB activity in the wake...
Oct 16 2018 // Florida’s insurance regulator has issued an emergency order that ensures “additional protections” to Florida policyholders – including freezing any rate hikes for 90 days – to support recovery efforts...
Oct 10 2018 // Fast-moving Hurricane Michael is expected to be a significant storm for the Florida Gulf Coast, and the state’s top insurance regulator says the insurance industry is ready to respond to whatever destruction it may...
Sep 27 2018 // As the Trump Administration continues to slap tariffs onto various consumer products, property/casualty insurers are increasingly concerned how some of these actions will affect the cost of auto and home insurance.Auto...
Sep 14 2018 // The board of directors of the SAIF, the not-for-profit company providing workers’ comp insurance in Oregon, declared two dividends for customers: a $120 million primary dividend to be paid to SAIF’s...
Aug 30 2018 // Roost, a provider of home telematics for property insurance carriers, has partnered with New York-based Kingstone Insurance.Roost is a technology company headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif. Kingstone is a property and...
Aug 6 2018 // Georgia Department of Insurance responded to 5,859 consumer complaints and inquiries, returning more than $3.7 million in insurance claim payouts to many of these policyholders, in the first six months of 2018, according...
Jul 30 2018 // Chubb has partnered with cyber security company DynaRisk to offer a cyber loss mitigation service to Chubb’s Cyber Enterprise Risk Management policyholders in the UK and Ireland.The DynaRisk service assesses a...
Jul 26 2018 // A.M. Best has revised the outlooks to negative from stable and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “a-” for Wisconsin Municipal Mutual Insurance...
Jul 9 2018 // In a closely-watched case on insurance coverage in an age of expanding cyber risk, a federal appeals court in New York has upheld a lower court ruling that a commercial crime insurance policy covers wire transfer losses...
Jul 2 2018 // Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corp. will wait until December to determine its 2019 insurance rates and whether it will approve a proposed 7.9 percent statewide increase for homeowners policies.The decision to...
Jun 26 2018 // Chubb announced that it has enhanced its cyber incident response management capabilities and launched two new ways of accessing the service: a mobile application and a dedicated website.As the threat of cyber risks facing...
Jun 21 2018 // Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corp. will wait until December to determine its 2019 insurance rates and whether it will approve a proposed 7.9 percent statewide increase for homeowners policies.The decision to...
Jun 7 2018 // Like thousands of other Floridians, I recently received my homeowner’s insurance renewal statement only to learn that my premium was increasing by a double-digit percentage – nearly $600 annually. But like most...
Jun 1 2018 // The 2018 hurricane season is officially underway, even as the dust continues to settle on the 2017 hurricane season — one of the costliest hurricane years on record — that brought devastation to Florida from Hurricane...
May 29 2018 // Austin-based workers’ compensation carrier, Texas Mutual Insurance Company, has appointed Jeanette Ward as the company’s new chief operating officer (COO) and Kim Haugaard as its new senior vice president of...
May 23 2018 // The board of directors for LWCC, a provider of competitive workers’ compensation insurance to Louisiana employers, has declared a 2017 dividend of $81 million to its policyholders.The amount was distributed to...
May 22 2018 // Workers’ compensation insurer, Missouri Employers Mutual has awarded the company’s fourth round of safety grants to Missouri businesses this month to help them take the next step toward improving workplace...
May 7 2018 // The New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) has fined Chubb Ltd. and its subsidiary, Illinois Union Insurance Company, $1.3 million for underwriting the National Rifle Association (NRA)-branded Carry Guard...