All the headlines from our Property Casualty Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 25 2006 // The parade of good third quarter results continues, with Bermuda’s largest insurer, ACE Limited, posting net income for the period of $578 million, compared to a $112 million loss in Q3 2005. Excluding capital losses...
Oct 25 2006 // Chicago-based Aon Corp. today announced that it has taken further steps to exit its property & casualty underwriting business by signing a letter of intent for the sale of its Construction Program Group (CPG). Aon...
Oct 23 2006 // The Society of Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters elected new officers and governors. They are: President Betsey L. Brewer, senior vice president of The Rule Co. in Pasadena, Calif. President-Elect James L. Britt,...
Oct 23 2006 // Identity-related fraud is a virulent crime, with 3.5 times the aggregate losses of all property crimes, such as burglary, larceny and vehicle theft, reported last year. In today’s technology- information-driven...
Oct 23 2006 // The U.S. property/casualty insurance industry’s net income after taxes fell 9.3 percent to $28.3 billion in first-half 2006 from $31.2 billion in first-half 2005 as investment results deteriorated. Reflecting the...
Oct 23 2006 // It’s a problem many brokers face: clients love our property casualty risk management products and services, but have we given them all they need? What else can we do for them?An employee benefits program offers an...
Oct 2 2006 // The U.S. property/casualty insurance industry’s net income after taxes fell 9.3 percent to $28.3 billion in first-half 2006 from $31.2 billion in first-half 2005 as investment results deteriorated. Reflecting the...
Oct 1 2006 // Continuing in its acquisitions mode, insurance agency Brown & Brown Inc., through its subsidiaries Hull & Co. Inc., and Program Management Services Inc., has acquired the assets of a key wholesaler located in the...
Sep 29 2006 // Deputy Commissioner for Property and Casualty Insurance Tom Streukens is leaving the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation to take a position as Operations Director for the Florida Workers’ Compensation Insurance...
Sep 25 2006 // The American Institute for Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriters (AICPCU), the American College and the Society of Financial Service Professionals founded Ethics Awareness Month in 1990. While it is impossible for...
Sep 25 2006 // The U.S. property/casualty insurance industry showed continued favorable and improved operating performance in the first half of 2006 and, based on results and barring any unusual events going forward, the industry is...
Sep 25 2006 // The American Institute for Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriters (AICPCU), the American College and the Society of Financial Service Professionals founded Ethics Awareness Month in 1990. While it is impossible for...
Sep 25 2006 // The U.S. property/casualty insurance industry showed continued favorable and improved operating performance in the first half of 2006 and, based on results and barring any unusual events going forward, the industry is...
Sep 19 2006 // New Jersey property casualty insurer National Atlantic Holdings Company has confirmed that it is engaged in preliminary discussions regarding potential transactions with The Commerce Group, Inc. of Webster, Mass.The...
Sep 19 2006 // Casualty Actuarial Society, ERM Institute International, Ltd (ERM-II), and the CAS/SOA Risk Management Section have released the results of a major research project titled “Enterprise Risk Management for...
Sep 13 2006 // Three property/casualty insurance trade associations urged the California Department of Insurance (CDI) to abandon proposed regulations that would radically change how the CDI reviews and approves insurance company rate...
Sep 8 2006 // BISYS Commercial Insurance Services, a provider of commercial property and casualty insurance solutions, today announced its acquisition of JCH Environmental Insurance Brokers, the environmental practice of JCH Insurance...
Sep 6 2006 // A comprehensive study of property and casualty insurance companies in North America, Western Europe and Australia has determined that the top line is more often the bottom line than previously thought. Bain finds that the...
Sep 6 2006 // The U.S. property/casualty insurance industry showed continued favorable and improved operating performance in the first half of 2006 and, based on first-half results and barring any unusual events going forward, the...
Sep 5 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance recently announced enforcement actions taken by Commissioner Mike Geeslin that became final during July.The actions include 24 license revocations, one license denial and fines and...