All the headlines from our Property Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 18 2008 // A coastal South Carolina congressman is seeking to allow an undeveloped section of Kiawah Island beachfront to qualify for federal money for roads, flood insurance and renourishment, making it more attractive for...
Aug 12 2008 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association recently announced it is assuming the responsibility of getting exterior photographs and inspecting all structures submitted for coverage, whether residential or...
Aug 7 2008 // Aon Corporation has launched the “Aon Green Building Property Program,” which it describes as the “industry’s most comprehensive insurance solution to facilitate environmentally friendly and...
Aug 4 2008 // Narragansett Bay Insurance Co. of Pawtucket, Rhode Island has named Mark Talerico chief risk officer.Talerico will oversee Narragansett’s distribution of risk in homeowners insurance, and guide the insurers exposure...
Aug 4 2008 // Colemont Insurance Brokers promoted Matt Carpenter to assistant vice president in the company’s Chicago office.Carpenter joined Colemont in 2002, specializing in brokering casualty lines. His expertise has since...
Aug 4 2008 // The people who run the Florida Surplus Lines Service Office are smack dab in the middle of the action and can see better than anyone what is going on in the Florida surplus lines market.The FSLSO collects reports on every...
Aug 4 2008 // Completing the condominium insurance picture necessitates jigsaw puzzle tenacity. Quite a few pieces must be snapped together to assure a proper insurance picture. Any missing information can leave a gaping hole in either...
Aug 4 2008 // Top 100 Agency ProfileRanking: No. 8 Insurance Office of AmericaHeadquarters: Longwood, Fla. Year Founded: 1988 Additional Locations: 22 branch offices 2007 Total P/C Premium Volume: $662.5 million 2007 Other Than P/C...
Aug 4 2008 // U.S. property/casualty insurers are expected to pay homeowners and businesses an estimated $6.025 billion for second quarter property losses resulting from a total of 16 catastrophes in 27 states, which is nearly double...
Jul 29 2008 // In an article on its web site (www.lloyds.com), Lloyd’s looks at the increasing concerns over coverage for vacant properties. “As the economy worsens it’s expected that more and more businesses will fail,...
Jul 25 2008 // Unlike years past, there are no diamond rings or South African gold coins in West Virginia’s cache of unclaimed property.But State Treasurer John Perdue does have cash, stock shares and unclaimed insurance policies...
Jul 23 2008 // Japan’s Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc. reported that it has agreed to acquire all outstanding shares of Philadelphia Consolidated, a U.S. property/casualty insurance company offering specialty commercial property and...
Jul 23 2008 // Insurance agents and brokers in New York have called upon state officials to ease the rules for how agents obtain coverage for some high-risk policies.The Excess Line Association of New York has proposed adding dozens of...
Jul 22 2008 // West Chester, Pa.-based Venture Insurance Programs, a national program administrator, recently named Michael Rogers as executive vice president and managing director of a new specialty property unit. Rogers will establish...
Jul 21 2008 // U.S. property/casualty insurers are expected to pay homeowners and businesses an estimated $6.025 billion for second quarter property losses resulting from a total of 16 catastrophes in 27 states, which is nearly double...
Jul 17 2008 // State Farm Florida Insurance Co., a Florida-only property insurance company, filed an average 47.1 percent homeowners insurance rate increase with the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation on July 16.Ed Domansky,...
Jul 17 2008 // Seated behind the wheel of a fire engine, Dave Breglia follows a map dotted with expensive homes threatened by wildfires. His job: protect high-end real estate and save an insurance company millions of dollars.“I...
Jul 16 2008 // Delaware fire investigators say a fire at a vacant home in Sussex County earlier this week was intentionally set, the ninth arson at a vacant home in the area over two months.This Monday’s fire was reported around...
Jul 11 2008 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services said it does not expect the 2008 Midwest floods to impact ratings or outlooks for the majority of companies that it rates.However, property/casualty writers that are...
Jul 10 2008 // In a big week for insurance lobbyists, a key House subcommittee advanced three major insurance regulatory measures.The U.S. House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored...