Latest Property Casualty Headlines

All the headlines from our Property Casualty Topic Page, ordered by recency.

Measuring Risk: Insurers’ day of reckoning arrives

Apr 3 2006 // “The ultimate objective is for an insurer is to use an ERM framework to better understand and manage the correlation and diversification of risk across the company and uses this information to determine overall risk...

The pre-bindingdisclosure reveals the standard commission Zurich pays agents by type of policy and

Apr 3 2006 // outlines any contingency compensation arrangements.News Currents Zurich agents caught in compensation disclosure webInsurer agrees to nationwide compensation disclosure along with payments of $325 million in two...

Financial Commentary

Apr 3 2006 // Do under-reserved property/casualty insurers deserve high ratings?Publicly traded property casualty insurance companies must serve many masters. To be competitive in the marketplace, they must offer products that meet the...

Fitch: Deterioration in profits for U.S. P/C sector

Apr 3 2006 // The U.S. property/casualty insurance industry will report deterioration in profitability in 2005 because insured catastrophe losses reached record levels in 2005, Fitch Ratings said. The decrease in profitability is...

Actuaries Estimate Cost of Terrorist Attacks on Cities; N.Y. at $778 Billion; D.C. at $196.8 Billion

Mar 31 2006 // The American Academy of Actuaries disclosed that a future large terrorist attack in New York City could result in $778 billion in insured losses.Speaking at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners public...

P/C Insurers Comment on Repeal of Tort Doctrine

Mar 31 2006 // The Florida Legislature took another important step toward making its civil justice system more equitable by repealing the doctrine of joint and several liability, according to the Property Casualty Insurers Association of...

Fitch: Deterioration in Profits For U.S. P/C Sector At YE2005

Mar 28 2006 // The U.S. property/casualty insurance industry will report deterioration in profitability in 2005 because insured catastrophe losses reached record levels in 2005, Fitch Ratings said. The decrease in profitability is...

A.M. Best Upgrades, Affirms Ratings of United America Indemnity Units

Mar 27 2006 // United America Indemnity, Ltd. reported that A.M. Best Company upgraded or affirmed its financial-strength rating for fourof its subsidiaries.Penn-America Group, Inc. was upgraded to A (Excellent); United National Group...

National Atlantic Appoints Golding to Board of Directors

Mar 24 2006 // National Atlantic Holdings Corporation, a provider of specialized property-casualty insurance products and related insurance services based in Freehold, N.J., has appointed Cornelius E. Golding, 58, to its Board of...

Financial Planners Pay More Attention to P/C Insurance and Risk Management

Mar 21 2006 // Property/casualty insurance and risk management increasingly play a role in financial planning, according to a survey by the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies.Fifty-seven percent of the 102 financial planners surveyed...

Wausau Signature Agency unveils new Employee Benefit Division

Mar 20 2006 // Wisconsin-based Wausau Signature Agency has unveiled its new Employee Benefits Division with comprehensive sales, marketing and service capabilities to fully complement its traditionally-strong property and casualty...

Argonaut Group Adds Ingram as Chief Information Officer

Mar 14 2006 // Argonaut Group Inc., a San Antonio, Texas-based national underwriter of specialty insurance products in niche areas of the property and casualty market, announced that Robert C. Ingram III has joined the organization as...

Three Promotions Announced by Winterthur U.S. Holdings Inc.

Mar 10 2006 // Three employees were recently promoted at Winterthur U.S. Holdings Inc., parent company of regional property and casualty insurers General Casualty, Sun Prairie, Wis. and Unigard, Bellevue, Wash.Geoff Barker was named...

U.K.’s Catlin Group Appoints Banas President, CEO of New U.S. Company

Mar 10 2006 // The U.K.’s Catlin Group reported from its Bermuda operations center that Richard Banas has been appointed as president and CEO of Catlin Inc., the Group’s new U.S. subsidiary.“Rich Banas will be...

Liberty Seguros Portugal in Alliance with Portuguese Insurer Acoreana

Mar 7 2006 // The Liberty Mutual Group announced form its Boston headquarters that its Portuguese subsidiary, Liberty Seguros Portugal, has signed a memorandum of understanding with insurer Acoreana to form a strategic alliance in the...

Wausau Signature Agency Unveils New Employee Benefit Division

Mar 7 2006 // Wisconsin-based Wausau Signature Agency has unveiled its new Employee Benefits Division with comprehensive sales, marketing and service capabilities to fully complement its traditionally-strong property and casualty...

Best Affirms FSR for Chubb

Mar 2 2006 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of A++ (Superior) of the property/casualty subsidiaries of The Chubb Corporation (Chubb) and has affirmed the issuer credit ratings (ICR) of “aa-”...

TDI Reports More Than $171K in Fines and Restitution in January

Mar 1 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance announced enforcement actions taken by Commissioner Mike Geeslin that became final during January.The actions include three license revocations, two license denials and fines and...

CSC Surveys Report Cost Savings Opportunity with Electronic Payments

Mar 1 2006 // Computer Sciences Corporation made public the results of two U.S. surveys of property and casualty (P/C) insurance customers that reportedly show a large, untapped opportunity for cost control through electronic...

Swiss Re Names Strebel Head to Lead Latin American Unit

Mar 1 2006 // Swiss Re announced the appointment of Beat Strebel to head its Latin American unit.Strebel, who is based in Armonk, New York, is responsible for all of Swiss Re’s Property & Casualty and Life & Health...