All the headlines from our Property Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 2 2015 // Freedom Specialty’s Programs underwriting has partnered with Intellectual Property Insurance Services Corp. (IPISC) to offer intellectual property insurance products. The policy offers broad coverage provisions for...
Apr 1 2015 // Part I of this “nonemployee, employee” mini-series introduced the three types of “employers” and began the discussion regarding what constitutes or creates control. Part II completes the...
Apr 1 2015 // Catastrophe insurance data provider PERILS AG announced the release of the 2015 update for its Industry Exposure Database (IED), “contains updated market-wide property sums insured for European windstorm for the...
Mar 31 2015 // ACE Group has created a new business unit – ACE International Excess (AIE)– to provide commercial property insurance on an excess basis for large companies in the Asia Pacific region.The new business unit will be...
Mar 25 2015 // ACE Group has made two appointments within its Global Accounts segment: Ed Gandon, casualty manager, UK & Ireland, and Gary Etherington, property manager, UK & Ireland, as it continues to invest in servicing larger...
Mar 23 2015 // Steve Mellgren’s worries began when a chunk of land near his house crumbled down a cliff, leaving his neighbor’s palatial home dangling above a lake before a demolition crew sent it tumbling into the water.One...
Mar 23 2015 // The past two years did not result in the amount of wildfire activity that many wildfire scientists, foresters and fire responders had expected. Looking back, the 2013 season had the earmarks of a bad year, with the...
Mar 21 2015 // The past two years did not result in the amount of wildfire activity that many wildfire scientists, foresters and fire responders had expected. Looking back, the 2013 season had the earmarks of a bad year, with the...
Mar 19 2015 // Fosun International Ltd., backed by Chinese billionaire Guo Guangchang, is vying with Ping An Insurance (Group) Co. to acquire 18 buildings on Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz square, people with knowledge of the matter...
Mar 19 2015 // Jim Bishop has joined Southwest Risk LP as a vice president and property broker. Bishop has more than 30 years of experience in the insurance industry with extensive knowledge of the marketplace in the central United...
Mar 18 2015 // CoreLogic, a global property information, analytics and data-enabled services provider, has released RCT Express 4.2, an expanded property risk assessment platform offering the insurance industry a fully-integrated and...
Mar 18 2015 // Citing uncertainty following the Boston Marathon bombing almost two years ago, risk managers are urging the federal government to set a deadline for certifying if an event is an act of terrorism and also use...
Mar 17 2015 // ACE has promoted Andrey Sedov to the newly created position of head of property risk engineering for Eurasia and Africa, as the company continues to build its risk management capability for clients across its newest...
Mar 16 2015 // The chief executive officer of state-backed Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. abruptly resigned following a closed session of the insurer’s board of directors to discuss personnel matters.The Advocate...
Mar 16 2015 // A new private contractor is being hired to oversee claims processing and loss prevention services for Louisiana’s self-insurance program.The Office of Risk Management announced that Sedgwick Claims Management...
Mar 10 2015 // Florida’s insurance regulators are two years ahead of schedule in ending an assessment used to retire a bond issued by the state-backed property insurer Citizens following the eight-storm 2004-2005 hurricane...
Mar 9 2015 // A Texas-based insurance company has prevailed in the first lawsuit to go to trial over claims from two massive hailstorms in Hidalgo County, Texas, in 2012.The 12-member jury in Amaro v. National Lloyds found that National...
Mar 5 2015 // KENNESAW, GA, March 5, 2015 — Breckenridge Insurance Services, a leading specialty wholesale commercial brokerage firm, has hired Tracy Anderson as a property broker to its Atlanta-based team. Anderson brings nearly a...
Mar 4 2015 // With the dramatic increase in the number of earthquakes in Oklahoma — which some say are at least partly attributed to waste water injection wells related to the practice of hydraulic fracturing in oil and gas drilling...
Feb 27 2015 // Sunrise, FL, February 27, 2015 – MacNeill Group, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Team Focus Insurance Group (Team Focus), and a licensed managing general agent (MGA) specializing in commercial, personal, transportation and...