All the headlines from our Property Casualty Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 19 2004 // This is the first in a series of articles on the Asia insurance marketplace. Part two in this series will focus on India and will appear in a September issue of Insurance Journal. “Let China Sleep, for when she...
Jul 16 2004 // Speaking at the12th Annual Mid-Year Property and Casualty Symposium presented by the Insurance Council of Texas and the Association of Fire and Casualty Companies in Texas (AFACT), Ernst Csiszar, president of the National...
Jul 15 2004 // The Midland Company, an Ohio-based provider of specialty insurance products and services, reported record results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2004.Net income per share was 58 cents, which included 2 cents in...
Jul 14 2004 // Property/casualty insurers more than doubled their profits during 2003, earning $32.3 billion compared to the $13.5 billion reported in 2002, according to Weiss Ratings Inc., an independent provider of ratings and analyses...
Jul 14 2004 // Fitch has removed from Rating Watch Negative and upgraded the ratings of Illinois-based Affirmative Insurance Company and Insura Property & Casualty Insurance Company to ‘BBB’ from ‘BB’. The...
Jul 13 2004 // Harleysville Insurance of Harleysville, Pa., recently announced new appointments in three field offices serving independent agents and policyholders in the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest regions. The appointments...
Jul 9 2004 // A July 6, 2004 posting in Insurance Journal’s South Central section contained incorrect information regarding the contents of Louisiana’s recently passed House Bill 1514.The article, “La. Legislature...
Jul 8 2004 // U.S. property/casualty insurers are expected to pay homeowners and businesses an estimated $1.65 billion for insured property-loss claims from six catastrophes affecting 23 states in the second quarter, according to...
Jul 5 2004 // Chairman Tim Hegarty Explains How His Trade Group Serves Big and Small AlikeWhat happens when you put giants like State Farm, AIG, Nationwide and Liberty Mutual in a room with tiny farm mutuals like Husbandsmans Mutual,...
Jul 5 2004 // Like a commercial airline scrambling to squeeze out a profit in the face of increased competition and skyrocketing fuel prices, many insurance agents find themselves caught in the downward spiral of another soft market...
Jul 5 2004 // The insurance industry, now teeter-tottering between a hard and a soft market, “has reached a point of inflection,” said Robert Partridge, Standard & Poor’s managing director, at S&P’s...
Jul 5 2004 // ‘Clean Slate’ U.S. P/C Insurers Learn from Sins of Their PredecessorsIn the summer of 2001, the hard cycle had already arrived for the U.S. property/casualty marketplace. Prices were trending up as experts...
Jul 5 2004 // Industry-wide price strengthening was a driving factor in the financial results of U.S. property/casualty insurance companies in 2003, according to an industry report card published by Standard & Poor’s Ratings...
Jul 5 2004 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas reported it is building an IIAT internship program to encourage minority college students in Texas to learn about careers in the insurance industry. The program will be part of a...
Jul 5 2004 // Conning Research & Consulting Inc. released a study concluding that P/C insurers’ cost of doing business “has stagnated over the past 20 years, contrasting the remarkable efficiency gains achieved by many...
Jul 5 2004 // Industry-wide price strengthening was a driving factor in the financial results of U.S. property/casualty insurance companies in 2003, according to an industry report card published by Standard & Poor’s Ratings...
Jul 5 2004 // The United States Census Bureau’s Census 2000 estimated the population of the State of Idaho at 1,293,953. Approximately 85 percent of the adult residents had graduated from high school and about 22 percent had...
Jul 5 2004 // New U.S. P/C Insurers Learn from Sins of Their PredecessorsIn the summer of 2001, the hard cycle had already arrived for the U.S. property/casualty marketplace for all lines of coverage. Prices were trending up as experts...
Jul 2 2004 // Fort Worth, Texas-based insurance and financial services brokerage firm Higginbotham & Associates announced it has launched services for Central and South Texas with the opening of a new Austin office.Newly hired...
Jul 2 2004 // A.M. Best has introduced its new Property/Casualty Center – Premium Data & Reports, an online product that provides access to select pages of companies’ annual statement data and more by bringing together...