All the headlines from our Property Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 2 2020 // Horace Mann Educators Corp. has appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Corporate Actuary Mark Desrochers as head of the company’s property/casualty insurance business on an acting basis.Desrochers will take over...
Mar 30 2020 // CAC Specialty has named Robert Trinkleback leader of property/casualty loss control, and Jonathan Goodier vice president and property/casualty claims advocate in Denver, Colo. Trinkleback will help clients improve...
Mar 27 2020 // Demotech has affirmed 37 of the 46 Florida-based companies rated by the actuarial firm, as of March 26, according to information gathered from Demotech’s website. That leaves fewer than 10 Florida insurers that are...
Mar 27 2020 // A well-known California restaurateur has filed a lawsuit against a unit of The Hartford, seeking a declaration that the owner’s commercial insurance policy covers losses caused by a statewide business shutdown...
Mar 26 2020 // Silence may be deadly for property/casualty insurers writing commercial insurance, an executive of an insurtech that specializes in analyzing insurance policy language suggested recently, explaining that without specific...
Mar 25 2020 // Although the Virtual University has not received questions regarding how the commercial general liability (CGL) policy will respond to the coronavirus (COVID-19), the CGL’s response must still be understood. Various...
Mar 25 2020 // As insurers continue to monitor the spread and impact of COVID-19, insurance regulators across the East region of the U.S. are issuing guidance on how the industry can respond.“There is almost no aspect of the...
Mar 24 2020 // Over the past two weeks, the VU has received countless questions concerning COVID-19 (the coronavirus) and the business income policy. As authorities require businesses to limit activities or shut down completely, the fear...
Mar 24 2020 // On March 16, a lawsuit was filed in district court in New Orleans seeking a declaratory judgment about whether the business income coverage in a Lloyd’s property policy would cover a government-mandated shutdown or...
Mar 23 2020 // Lighthouse Property Insurance Corp. has hired David Howard as president, pending regulatory approvals.Howard will serve as president for Lighthouse and Lighthouse Excalibur Insurance Co., a wholly owned subsidiary. The...
Mar 23 2020 // Remote Work Not Much Help for Assembly LinesProperty/casualty insurance professionals are trying to provide advice and empathy to their manufacturing clients coping with the effects of the spread of the coronavirus. But...
Mar 20 2020 // San Diego, CA, March 19, 2020 – FTP of California, LLC, announced today a new property program with high limits and extreme flexibility in risk coverage. The exclusive program is backed by A.M. Best ‘A’ rated...
Mar 19 2020 // A restaurant in the heart of the New Orleans tourism district filed a lawsuit on Monday asking a state judge for a declaratory judgment that its business-interruption policy will cover its damages if it is ordered to close...
Mar 16 2020 // Lighthouse Property Insurance Corp. plans to acquire its sister carrier, Prepared Insurance Company (Prepared), from Prepared Holdings Group.Lighthouse is a Louisiana-domiciled property and casualty insurance carrier...
Mar 12 2020 // London-based EC3 Brokers has launched a U.S. property wholesale division based in London, with the appointments of Matthew Jeffery as managing director and David and Daniel Jeffery as divisional directors. The brothers,...
Mar 10 2020 // AM Best has downgraded the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) to B- (Fair) from B (Fair) and the Long-Term ICR to “bb-” from “bb” of Echelon Property & Casualty Insurance Co., based in Chicago.AM...
Mar 9 2020 // U.S. homeowner insurers are doing a better job than ever making their customers happy when responding to claims, according to J.D. Power. Results of the firm’s Property Claims Satisfaction Study show that overall...
Mar 9 2020 // There continues to be a disconnect between homeowner beliefs and behaviors, especially when it comes to protecting against the most common source of property-related damage: water.That’s according to the annual Chubb...
Mar 6 2020 // Sompo Global Risk Solutions (GRS), a subsidiary of Sompo International Holdings Ltd., has entered into a partnership with independent risk management and insurance consulting firm Fisher Harris Shapiro, Inc. (FHS) to offer...
Mar 4 2020 // The initial insured property losses for January’s hailstorms in Australia are estimated at A$670 million (US$746.7 million), according to PERILS, the independent Zurich-based organization that provides industry-wide...