All the headlines from our Property Casualty Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 6 2007 // If ever there was a time for insurance agents to get out and go looking for a better errors and omissions policy, this is the season.Agents who do will come across several admitted carriers that are welcoming new business...
Aug 6 2007 // The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. announced it has reached a settlement with the New York, Connecticut and Illinois attorneys general resolving matters relating to their investigations of the compensation...
Jul 31 2007 // Enforcement actions taken by Texas Insurance Commissioner Mike Geeslin that became final during June resulted in nearly $191,000 in fines and restitution, the Texas Department of Insurance announced.The actions include...
Jul 30 2007 // Dr. Steven N. Weisbart, vice president and economist for the Insurance Information Institute, has been named chief economist of the organization, announced Dr. Robert P. Hartwig, president of the III.Weisbart will oversee...
Jul 23 2007 // The blueprint for the company was originally conceived by an ad hoc task force of senior executive officers from several mutual property/casualty insurance companies in response to the liability insurance crisis of the...
Jul 23 2007 // Bickmore Risk Services, a Sacramento, Calif.-based independent risk management consulting firm, has appointed Michael S. Harrington to director, Property and Casualty Actuarial Services. Harrington will coordinate the...
Jul 23 2007 // U.S. property/casualty insurers are expected to pay homeowners and businesses an estimated $2.175 billion for second-quarter property losses resulting from a total of six catastrophes in 25 states — tying the record...
Jul 23 2007 // The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. has named Thomas M. Marra to the newly created position of president and chief operating officer. Marra, currently a member of the company’s board of directors and president...
Jul 23 2007 // The U.S. property/casualty insurance industry’s net income after taxes dipped to $15.8 billion in first-quarter 2007 from $16.7 billion in first-quarter 2006 and $17.7 billion in first-quarter 2005, according to...
Jul 23 2007 // Indiana insurer for mutual insurers, agents celebrates 20 yearsThe blueprint for the company was originally conceived by an ad hoc task force of senior executive officers from several mutual property/casualty insurance...
Jul 23 2007 // The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. has named Thomas M. Marra to the newly created position of president and chief operating officer. Marra, currently a member of the company’s board of directors and president...
Jul 23 2007 // $2.175 BillionU.S. property/casualty insurers are expected to pay homeowners and businesses an estimated $2.175 billion for second-quarter property losses resulting from six catastrophes in 25 states — tying the...
Jul 23 2007 // Richard S. “Dick” Gieger, general counsel of the law firm of Thompson, Coe, Cousins and Irons, was presented the Raymond Mauk Leadership Award on July 12 in Austin, Texas, at the 15th Annual Mid-Year Property...
Jul 23 2007 // I am certain that Erik Erikson, Stella Chess and Jane Whitbread were not thinking of the insurance industry when they wrote this but they could have been. The 25 property/casualty insurers with the largest increase in...
Jul 23 2007 // P/C industry net income, overall profitability slipsThe U.S. property/casualty insurance industry’s net income after taxes dipped to $15.8 billion in first-quarter 2007 from $16.7 billion in first-quarter 2006 and...
Jul 17 2007 // Commercial insurance premiums continued to decline during the second quarter of 2007, according to the RIMS Benchmark Survey, a survey of current policy renewal prices as reported by corporate risk managers.RIMS Benchmark...
Jul 17 2007 // Western National Insurance Group recently announced that it has been named to the 2007 Ward’s 50 benchmark group of top performing property/casualty companies in the U. S.. The award recognizes Western National for...
Jul 13 2007 // Richard S. “Dick” Geiger, general counsel of the law firm of Thompson, Coe, Cousins and Irons, was presented the Raymond Mauk Leadership Award Thursday, July 12 in Austin, at the 15th Annual Mid-Year Property...
Jul 13 2007 // The Arkansas Insurance Department issued a directive to property and casualty carriers issuing policies containing “occupancy” requirements in their underwriting standards that could adversely impact insurance...
Jul 12 2007 // The blueprint for the company was originally conceived by an ad hoc task force of senior executive officers from several mutual property/casualty insurance companies in response to the liability insurance crisis of the...