All the headlines from our Policyholder Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 17 2014 // Florida lawmakers say they want to protect policyholders’ second amendment rights to bear firearms by preventing insurers from issuing, renewing or canceling a policy based on whether the policyholder possesses a...
Jan 17 2014 // Argo Pro, a member of Argo Group International Holdings, an international underwriter of specialty insurance and reinsurance products, has launched a new employment practices liability insurance hotline to support...
Jan 15 2014 // The $1.1 trillion government funding agreement unveiled by Congressional negotiators on Monday includes language to postpone for about eight months some of the flood insurance rate hikes triggered by reforms passed in...
Jan 13 2014 // Private U.S. property/casualty insurers’ net income after taxes rose to $43 billion in nine-months 2013 from $27.8 billion in nine-months 2012, with insurers’ overall profitability as measured by their...
Jan 6 2014 // The Pennsylvania Insurance Department offers the following advice and tips about homeowner’s and auto insurance policies in wake of last week’s winter storm.First, damage to the house and its contents caused by...
Dec 23 2013 // Private U.S. property/casualty insurers’ net income after taxes rose to $43 billion in nine-months 2013 from $27.8 billion in nine-months 2012, with insurers’ overall profitability as measured by their...
Dec 22 2013 // U.S. retail giant Target Corp. is busy dealing with the aftermath of the massive data breach that exposed account details of some 40 million credit and debit cards.Already, at least two lawsuits seeking class-action status...
Dec 20 2013 // Americans whose health plans are being canceled because their coverage doesn’t meet Obamacare rules will be exempt from the mandate that they carry insurance, under a change announced by the Obama...
Dec 18 2013 // New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration announced it has approved Esurance’s new telematics program designed to help prevent teens from texting while driving.This new voluntary program, called...
Dec 18 2013 // The board of directors of medical professional liability insurer, LAMMICO, has declared another dividend for all policyholders in Louisiana and Arkansas, marking the seventh time since 2008 the company has authorized the...
Dec 12 2013 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon is reminding property insurance policyholders that the clock is ticking on the deadline to claim a rebate for the Citizens Property Insurance Corporation (Citizens)...
Nov 27 2013 // The U.S. government is proposing compensation to help insurers participating in Obamacare health exchanges who fear that their costs will spin out of control if their plans are dominated by sicker people.Fears about cost...
Nov 18 2013 // The board of directors for California’s State Fund Compensation Insurance approved a $100 million dividend to qualifying policyholders for the 2013 policy year.The dividend represents roughly 8.6 percent of...
Nov 4 2013 // Technological innovations are revolutionizing how businesses and consumers operate — prompting quick action from the insurance industry and the government to enable people to adopt and embrace this rapidly emerging...
Nov 1 2013 // Maryland’s largest writer of workers’ compensation insurance and the insurer of last resort adopted a new name and a new corporate structure in October. The 99-year-old Injured Workers’ Insurance Fund...
Oct 25 2013 // Two U.S. senators representing New York State, Sen. Charles Schumer and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, this week called on Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to extend the statute of limitations for Sandy victims seeking...
Oct 21 2013 // Many homeowners who got slammed by Superstorm Sandy are finding their flood insurance checks are nowhere near large enough to cover their repairs, and consumer advocates put some of the blame on errors by the multitude of...
Oct 11 2013 // Workers’ compensation insurer The MEMIC Group announced this week that policyholders of its Maine-based company, Maine Employers’ Mutual Insurance Company (MEMIC), will receive dividend checks totaling more...
Oct 10 2013 // Class action lawsuits in federal courts on both coasts have been initiated on behalf of small businesses in California, New York and New Jersey against American International Group (AIG) over workers’ compensation...
Oct 3 2013 // Private U.S. property/casualty insurers’ net income after taxes rose to $24.5 billion in first-half 2013 from $17.2 billion in first-half of last year.Insurers’ overall profitability as measured by their...