All the headlines from our Property Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 17 2018 // During PartnerRe’s first 25 years as a reinsurer, everything has changed and nothing has changed. From its roots as a pure catastrophe player, PartnerRe has dramatically evolved–or diversified–over the...
Sep 14 2018 // Swiss Re Corporate Solutions has named Jamie Mullarkey as head of Property & Energy, Canada. In this role, Mullarkey leads property and energy underwriting in Canada with teams based in Toronto and Vancouver. He...
Sep 13 2018 // A Cherokee Nation official says medical marijuana won’t be legal on the Oklahoma-based tribe’s property even though the state’s voters approved use of the plant. The Cherokee Phoenix reports Cherokee...
Sep 12 2018 // It’s hurricane season.I’ll wait for your shock to subside. If you live in a coastal state from Texas on the Western Gulf Coast to Virginia, you already knew it was hurricane season. I’m just reminding...
Sep 10 2018 // The North Carolina Department of Insurance announced multiple fraud enforcement actions during the month of August.Insurance fraud costs American consumers approximately $80 billion dollars a year. According to North...
Sep 6 2018 // Valerie Turpin has joined Arch Insurance as executive vice president and Head of U.S. Property. She succeeds Michael Kmetz, who has taken a different role within the firm. In this position, Turpin will have oversight of...
Sep 3 2018 // When insurance experts are asked what they see as the most important emerging risk for the property/casualty insurance industry, their consensus is cyber in some form.While cyber obviously poses tremendous risks, some...
Sep 3 2018 // If residential property owners don’t confirm proper insurance coverage and carefully consider labor laws when hiring contractors, they could be in for some costly litigation, according to two speakers at a July...
Aug 30 2018 // Although hurricane activity in the Atlantic has been relatively quiet so far for 2018 with only five named storms to date, the Virginia State Corporation Commission’s (SCC) Bureau of Insurance is reminding Virginians...
Aug 29 2018 // Managing general agency and surplus lines broker J.M. Wilson has added Mark Maday as assistant property/casualty underwriter in the company’s Arlington Heights, Illinois, office. Maday is responsible for underwriting...
Aug 28 2018 // Have you ever watched someone try to finish a jigsaw puzzle with pieces missing? There are still a few hundred pieces to place, but there is one open space in the middle of a grove of trees that beckons to be filled. The...
Aug 23 2018 // The trend of increasing commercial insurance premiums that began in the fourth quarter of 2017 continued last quarter. Average premiums across all sized accounts increased by 1.5 percent in Q2, according to The Council of...
Aug 21 2018 // PLNAR, an augmented reality service that creates, fully measured, real-time 3D models of any room, has raised $3.9 million in a Series A investment round led by insurtech and healthcare venture capital fund ManchesterStory...
Aug 20 2018 // Plymouth Rock Assurance has announced that A.M. Best Rating Services Inc. upgraded the financial strength ratings of the Palisades Group and High Point Homeowners Group to A- (Excellent). In addition, their long-term...
Aug 17 2018 // Seeman Holtz Property & Casualty Inc. has continued its expansion into Pennsylvania with its acquisition of Merchants Preferred Insurance Services, headquartered in Erie, Penn.This acquisition will strengthen Seeman...
Aug 15 2018 // Imagine there’s a way for institutional investors to trade insurance risks much like they trade stocks. Well, imagine no more. A new and unique reinsurer, Extraordinary Re, has hit upon the novel idea of creating a...
Aug 14 2018 // Last year’s intense hurricane season has motivated most Florida residents to prepare for hurricanes that could hit the state this year, according to a recent survey by the Property Casualty Insurers Association of...
Aug 10 2018 // Global commercial insurance prices rose in the second quarter of 2018, marking the third consecutive quarter of increases, according to Marsh’s “Global Insurance Market Index.”These average increases were...
Aug 9 2018 // Drone inspection company Betterview has released Property Profile – a new way to get a deep understanding of the characteristics and risks of a property and its roof.Betterview’s Property Profile uses satellite...
Aug 8 2018 // I think I get it now. Everything is starting to make more sense than ever before. Sorry, maybe I should catch you up on my thoughts. I’ve been wondering why it is so hard to read insurance policies. And why we...