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Arizona’s Surplus Line Premium Volume up in 1999

May 11 2000 // According to figures released by the Surplus Line Association of Arizona, written surplus line premium volume in the state totaled $106.9 million in 1999, compared with $90.2 million in 1998–an increase of 18.5...

S&P Rates INSCO-Dico Group Cos.

May 1 2000 // Standard & Poor’s (S&P) took rating actions on three Irvine-based stock companies. The “BBpi” financial strength rating on Irvine-based Developers Insurance Company (DICO) was affirmed by...

UPDATE – Euro Interest Rate Hike Fails To Support Exchange Rates

Apr 27 2000 // As expected, the European Central Bank (ECB) raised interest rates on the Euro today, but only by what most analysts considered a paltry 25 basis points. The move, which raised the effective rate to 3.75 percent,...

New Zealand Nonlife Rates To Rise

Apr 4 2000 // Excess capacity, intense competition, inadequate premium rates and a high level of claims resulted in a very poor earnings performance in the New Zealand nonlife insurance market in 1999. So said Ian Thompson, Standard...

Award Increases Cause Rise in U.K. Premiums

Feb 29 2000 // The distinct possibility that damage awards arising from automobile accident claims will substantially increase in the U.K. has prompted the Association of British Insurers (ABI) to warn of possible big increases in...