All the headlines from our Property Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 4 2019 // FedNat Holding Company (FNHC), an insurance holding company, has completed its acquisition of the homeowners insurance operations of 1347 Property Insurance Holdings, Inc. (PIH), consisting of Maison Insurance Co., Maison...
Dec 4 2019 // Swiss Re Corporate Solutions has launched ONE Form, a tool designed to create standardized master and local policies.The ONE Form wording enables the closest possible alignment of master and local policies, while...
Dec 3 2019 // Preferred Property Programs (PPP), a division of Jacobson, Goldfarb & Scott, Inc. (JGS Insurance), has released a national insurance product for community associations. In conjunction with AXA XL, a division of AXA,...
Dec 3 2019 // By the time Deb Dellapena arrived for work at Merck & Co.’s 90-acre campus north of Philadelphia, there was a handwritten sign on the door: The computers are down.It was worse than it seemed. Some employees who...
Dec 3 2019 // Just 31 years after it was founded in China’s southern city of Shenzhen, Ping An Insurance (Group) Co. has grown into the world’s second-largest insurer by market value after Berkshire Hathaway Inc.—more...
Nov 27 2019 // Cincinnati, Ohio-based Great American Insurance Group has promoted Roy Reynolds to divisional president and Garry Gordon to divisional senior vice president within its Property & Casualty Group, Mergers &...
Nov 26 2019 // Vermont is asking the Federal Emergency Management Agency to assess damage to private property from a storm beginning on Halloween to determine if the state qualifies for federal aid for homeowners and renters. The state...
Nov 22 2019 // Atlanta, GA, November 22, 2019 — The specialty property program team at Blue River Underwriters, a Breckenridge Insurance Group company, welcomed Jamey Schoenhard, underwriter, to the team and opened a new office in Glen...
Nov 18 2019 // Nearly a year after the deadliest and costliest wildfire in U.S. history, insurers and the customers they cover are revisiting how to reduce their collective exposure to this risk, according to the Insurance Information...
Nov 15 2019 // Texas’ property insurer of last resort for wind and hail in counties along the Gulf Coast is finding itself once again between a rock and a hard place — or perhaps more appropriately, between a hurricane and a...
Nov 14 2019 // Mercury Insurance has introduced landlord insurance in California designed to help protect people with rental properties. Landlord insurance covers the costs to repair rental properties if they’re damaged by fires,...
Nov 12 2019 // Ongoing rate increases and reductions in capacity are taking shape in most property/casualty commercial lines in the fourth—and for some, will continue into the new year, according to a recent report from broker USI...
Nov 12 2019 // Greyling Insurance Brokerage & Risk Consulting (Greyling), a division of EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants (EPIC), has launched a nationwide site pollution liability insurance program for the emerging cannabis...
Nov 7 2019 // On a cold morning last March, Kenny Angel got a frantic knock on his door. Two workers from a utility company in northern Nebraska had come with a stark warning: Get out of your house.Just a little over a quarter-mile...
Nov 6 2019 // Nearly a year after the deadliest and costliest wildfire in U.S. history, insurers and the customers they cover are revisiting how to reduce their collective exposure to this risk, according to the Insurance Information...
Nov 5 2019 // Louisiana-based Excalibur Insurance Co. is now officially named Lighthouse Excalibur Insurance Co., following its acquisition by Lighthouse Property Insurance Corp.The name change was unveiled on Nov. 1. In May, Lighthouse...
Nov 4 2019 // BMS Group, the London-based specialist re/insurance broker, announced the appointment of Jeff Irvan as chief property officer, U.S. reinsurance, reporting to BMS U.S. Reinsurance President Pete Chandler.The appointment is...
Nov 4 2019 // In the past two columns, we examined eight legal and contractual principles nonlawyers can use to resolve most claim disputes without litigation. In this month’s column, we’ll wrap up this discussion with nine...
Nov 1 2019 // Specialist insurer Beazley has appointed Matthew Westhoff as head of U.S. large commercial property based in New York.Reporting to Beazley’s global head of commercial property, Simon Jackson, Westhoff will manage the...
Oct 31 2019 // On a Friday night in August, Diane and Ted Simpson got home from work to find a certified letter from the Harris County Flood Control District notifying them that a portion of their backyard was in a public right of...