All the headlines from our Property Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 5 2018 // While natural weather hazard activity could be largely categorized as “normal” last year, regional exceptions occurred, notably: wildfires in California and hurricane activity in Texas and the...
Feb 5 2018 // Texas Security General Insurance Agency LLC (TSGA) in San Antonio, Texas, added David A. Winkley as vice president of Commercial Lines.A former business owner, Winkley has industry experience in retail production,...
Feb 5 2018 // CAL Insurance & Associates Inc. has added Elian Boukhalil as an account manager.Boukhalil will work within CAL’s affluent families division. She was previously an intern with Publiscreen Online. Before that she...
Feb 5 2018 // Acting Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Jessica Altman has advised property owners in southwestern Pennsylvania experiencing flooding from heavy rains on important actions to take when preparing and filing flood...
Jan 25 2018 // With the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) currently set to expire on February 8, and many communities still recovering from this summer’s hurricanes, it’s no surprise that the 21st Century Flood Reform...
Jan 23 2018 // Regions Insurance, an affiliate of Regions Bank, has named Mike Breedlove executive vice president of Property & Casualty Operations. Breedlove will be responsible for leading the company’s property &...
Jan 22 2018 // Salt Lake City, Utah-based Leavitt Group Insurance Advisors has named Mike Scott a senior risk advisor and director of program business.Scott will focus on middle markets, large accounts, and hard-to-place specialty risks....
Jan 22 2018 // Connie Clarke has been appointed president of TDECU Insurance Agency LLC in Lake Jackson, Texas.Clarke brings more than 20 years’ experience in both the insurance and financial services industries to the...
Jan 22 2018 // Ratings firm A.M. Best said it is maintaining its 2018 outlook for the U.S. property/casualty reinsurance sector at negative, citing the “pronounced pressure on U.S. property catastrophe rates as the alternative...
Jan 22 2018 // A Florida appeals court has sided with the state’s insurance regulator in rejecting policy language filed by a Florida homeowners insurer to restrict the use of assignment of benefits.The decision could have a...
Jan 12 2018 // The developer of an $88 million high-rise project in downtown Des Moines has announced plans to trade the land to an insurance company in exchange for a portion of a downtown property.Blackbird Investments’...
Jan 12 2018 // J.M. Wilson has hired Taylor James as assistant property/casualty underwriter in its Westerville, Ohio, office.James is responsible for assisting underwriters on a wide variety of property and casualty risks, as well as...
Jan 12 2018 // All Risks Ltd. has added Brandon Aasen to its San Francisco, Calif. office as a property broker. Aasen will be responsible for producing new property business for the West Coast. He will also specialize in commercial...
Jan 10 2018 // Ratings firm A.M. Best said it is maintaining its 2018 outlook for the U.S. property/casualty reinsurance sector at negative, citing the “pronounced pressure on U.S. property catastrophe rates as the alternative...
Jan 10 2018 // A Florida appeals court has sided with the state’s insurance regulator in rejecting policy language filed by a Florida homeowners insurer to restrict the use of assignment of benefits.The decision could have a...
Jan 9 2018 // Ethos Specialty Insurance Services, a subsidiary of Ascot Group, announced that Michael Carr has joined the firm as head of Ethos Property.Carr has 25 years of experience in the excess and surplus property market. Prior to...
Jan 8 2018 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance (LDI) estimates that the state’s property insurer of last resort has gone from the third largest property insurance company to the 35th in 10 years.Louisiana Insurance...
Jan 8 2018 // Two additional property/casualty insurance carriers have been approved to conduct business in Arkansas.The Arkansas Insurance Department (AID) announced in December that Lemonade Insurance Co., has received a Certificate...
Jan 4 2018 // Allianz SE’s property unit plans to double investments in Asia over three years as the German firm is drawing in more money from its insurance operations in the region.Property investments may swell to 3.75 billion...
Jan 4 2018 // The insurance industry will pay record claims of US$135 billion from last year’s spate of natural catastrophes, according to a report published by Munich Re.Further, Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria (HIM), the...