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Top 10 Stories of 2001

Dec 17 2001 // Recollections and Renewal: Looking Back at 2001 with an Eye to the FutureThis is the year that was. It is one that many people will be glad to see come to an end because the new year always brings hope—for a rebirth, for...

California Drivers to See Some Auto Rate Increases in the New Year

Dec 10 2001 // Auto insurers across the state are making a beeline for Sacramento with their Christmas wish list for rate hikes following several years of rate cuts for California motorists.Those insurers who were chopping rates two or...

Calif. Industry Said to Be Prepared for Future Disasters

Dec 6 2001 // Representatives of the insurance industry testified Wednesday before the California Assembly Insurance Committee concerning insurance and reinsurance after the attack on America.They noted that the Sept. 11 attack was...

Liberty Mutual Policyholders Approve Mutual Holding Company Plan

Nov 13 2001 // Liberty Mutual Group announced that policyholders of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company and Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Company have overwhelmingly approved the company’s mutual holding company plan during special...

Attorneys Warn of Impact on Policyholders

Nov 9 2001 // Attorneys who represent insurance policyholders warned House Financial Services Committee Chairman Michael Oxley on Nov. 7 that, “in the rush by the insurance industry to maximize financial gain through legislative...

Ohio Insurance Dept. Appeals Court Ruling on Failed Companies

Oct 29 2001 // Ohio Department of Insurance (ODI) filed an appeal with the Ohio Supreme Court requesting a hearing on the department’s appeal of the Tenth District Ohio Court of Appeals’ ruling on the distribution of assets...

Penn Court Approves Reliance Liquidation

Oct 4 2001 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Diane Koken admitted defeat Wednesday in her Department’s battle to rehabilitate the 184-year-old Reliance Insurance Company, when Commonwealth Court Judge James Gardner Colins...

Principal Financial Group to Proceed Soon

Oct 2 2001 // The Principal Financial Group has slightly lowered the expected price range for its initial public offering but will hold the stock sale within 30 days as planned, the company said in a filing last week with the U.S....

Fallout From Independent’s Collapse Continues, Regulators Questioned

Sep 30 2001 // What did you know, and when did you know it?” Those questions from the Watergate era are increasingly being asked of the U.K.’s Financial Services Authority, which oversees the country’s insurance...

Fallout From Independent’s Collapse Continues, Regulators Questioned

Sep 3 2001 // What did you know, and when did you know it?” Those questions from the Watergate era are increasingly being asked of the U.K.’s Financial Services Authority, which oversees the country’s insurance...

AIA Warns Established Commercial Contract Language is at Risk

Aug 15 2001 // According to the American Insurance Association (AIA), a policyholder’s attempt to transform a commercial property insurance policy’s condition of coverage language into a grant of coverage for defective...

Report Says Top Insurers Embracing Web for Agent and Policyholder Communication

Aug 14 2001 // Top U.S. insurers are turning to the web to reduce communication costs with both agents and policyholders, says a new report titled “U.S. Insurance & the Web: An Overview” published by Celent...

ERIE Selects DWL to Provide Transactional

Aug 8 2001 // DWL Incorporated, a provider of transactional e-solutions, announced Erie Insurance Group has selected its solution. DWL will provide ERIE with industry-specific portals and a transactional CRM application to create a...

Court Affirms Noninsured Can’t Sue Insurer for Alleged Negligence to Policyholder

Aug 3 2001 // The California Court of Appeal has affirmed a ruling that a person not covered by an insurance policy cannot sue the insurer for alleged negligence for delaying payment to the person who is insured. The ruling in Adelman...

Fallout From Independent’s Collapse Continues,Regulators Questioned

Jul 30 2001 // What did you know, and when did you know it?” Those questions from the Watergate era are increasingly being asked of the U.K.’s Financial Services Authority, which oversees the country’s insurance...

AIG Comments on California Appeals Court Ruling

Jul 20 2001 // A California Court of Appeal has ruled that a suit against CIGNA Corp. and its former subsidiary, Insurance Company of North America (INA) — charging both companies with illegal conduct and fraud — could...

Auto Market Shrinks in New Jersey as Major Carriers Exit

Jul 16 2001 // First, State Farm Indemnity announced plans to leave New Jersey’s auto insurance market; then it was a subsidiary of American International Group noting similar intentions. Several other companies are now...

NAII Says Calif. Bill Would Hinder Fraud-Fighting Tactics

Jul 10 2001 // The National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) announced that the California Assembly Insurance Committee on July 11 will hold a hearing to debate legislation that would impede insurer efforts to investigate...

Independent Investigation Heats Up as PwC Finds $87.8 Million in Unrecorded Claims

Jun 22 2001 // PricewaterhouseCoopers, the provisional liquidators appointed last Monday to sort out the financial mess at the U.K.’s Independent Insurance, have so far uncovered £62 million ($87.8 million) worth of insurance...

State Fund To Become Texas Mutual Insurance Company

Jun 4 2001 // The Texas Workers’ Compensation Insurance Fund will become the Texas Mutual Insurance Company Sept. 1 if Gov. Rick Perry signs the bill authorizing the change. The governor has 20 days from the Legislature’s...