Latest Travelers Headlines

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St. Paul Travelers Settles Stun-Gun Suit Against Pa. Suburb

Feb 2 2007 // A Pittsburgh suburb’s former insurance carrier paid $100,000 to an ex-pizzeria owner who sued the municipality after being subdued by police with a stun gun in 2005.Mount Lebanon police used a 50,000-volt Taser on...

Kingsway Acquires St. Paul Travelers’ Non-Standard Auto Unit, Mendota

Jan 24 2007 // Canada’s Kingsway Financial Services, Inc. has agreed to acquire Mendota Insurance Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of The St. Paul Travelers Companies, Inc. The transaction includes Mendota’s wholly owned...

Georgia Chief Vows Hearing into Commission Cuts by St. Paul Travelers

Jan 22 2007 // St. Paul Travelers has reduced commissions paid to insurance agents on homeowners policies sold in Bryan, Camden, Chatham, Glynn, Liberty, and McIntosh Counties, according to Georgia Insurance Commissioner John...

Travelers Launches Customer Risk Control Site

Jan 22 2007 // Travelers has launched a risk control customer Web portal, a one-stop shop for businesses with questions about risk control, at www. riskcontrol.com.The site not only highlights the products and services Travelers Risk...

Ark. Bankers Group Names Travelers Preferred Provider

Jan 17 2007 // St. Paul, Minn.-based Travelers today announced that the Arkansas Community Bankers Assn. has chosen the company as its preferred provider for bank insurance products.The Arkansas Community Bankers Association represents...

Travelers Scales Back Decision on Renewing Commercial Polices in N.O.

Jan 8 2007 // St. Paul Travelers is scaling back plans to stop renewing most of its commercial policies in the New Orleans area this year, a decision that is “very good news” for businesses here after the 2005 hurricanes,...

St. Paul Travelers Agrees to Halt All Contingent Commissions

Jan 4 2007 // The St. Paul Travelers insurance company has agreed to stop paying “contingent commissions” to brokers and agents, according to Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal.In August, St. Paul Travelers,...

2006: Soft market offers up many new insurance products

Dec 25 2006 // E&O, Professional/Management Liability New P/C Insurance Agents’ E&O Rockwood Programs partnered with certain underwriters at Lloyd’s of London to offer professional liability coverage specifically...

2006 New Markets Report

Dec 24 2006 // E&O, Professional/Management LiabilityNew P/C Insurance Agents’ E&O Rockwood Programs partnered with certain underwriters at Lloyd’s of London to offer professional liability coverage specifically for...

N.Y., Conn., Ill. AGs Bring Another Suit, This Time Against Acordia

Dec 19 2006 // The attorneys general of Connecticut, Illinois and New York continued their campaign against undisclosed compensation and account steering by simultaneously bringing suit today against one of the nation’s largest...

Recovery Czar to Meet with Insurer Regarding Southern La.

Dec 14 2006 // Federal recovery czar Donald Powell says he plans to meet with St. Paul Travelers Companies Inc. about the company’s recent decision not to renew commercial property insurance policies in southern Louisiana.During a...

St. Paul Travelers to cease renewing some commercial accounts in New Orleans

Dec 11 2006 // In a blow to post-Katrina recovery in New Orleans, St. Paul Travelers on Dec. 1st said it will stop renewing many commercial insurance policies in the area in the next year, according to the Associated Press. The...

St. Paul Travelers to cease renewing some commercial accounts in New Orleans

Dec 10 2006 // In a blow to post-Katrina recovery in New Orleans, St. Paul Travelers on Dec. 1 said it will stop renewing many commercial insurance policies in the area next year, according to the Associated Press.The rebuilding of New...

La. Gov. Urges Insurer to Reverse Plan to Stop Renewing Commercial Policies

Dec 7 2006 // Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco met with the state’s largest commercial insurer on Dec. 5, trying to convince executives to reverse an earlier decision to stop renewing policies in the New Orleans area next year.St....

Travelers Expands Monoline Commercial Auto Insurance Offerings

Dec 5 2006 // Travelers is now making available commercial auto coverage for small to mid-sized businesses on a monoline basis through its Select Accounts, Commercial Accounts and Construction divisions. This expanded monoline auto...

St. Paul Travelers Won’t Renew Some Commercial Policies in New Orleans

Dec 4 2006 // St. Paul Travelers said Dec. 1 that it will stop renewing many commercial insurance policies in the New Orleans area next year, stoking fears that other insurers are prepared to pull out of the market after Hurricane...

New Markets

Nov 6 2006 // New Construction, Remodelers, Owner/Developers Nuts & Bolts: Network E&S Insurance Brokers LLC has a new limited access Builder’s Risk/Contractors Equipment Program for both residential and commercial....

Federal appeals court upholds juries’ rulings in World Trade Center twin tower claims

Nov 6 2006 // A federal court has upheld the jury verdicts that recognized the two-plane terrorist attacks on the towers at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, as a single event for some insurers and two events for others.A...

New Markets

Nov 6 2006 // Privacy and Security Coverage Enhancements Nuts & Bolts: Underwriting manager and claims administrator Euclid Managers LLC have a set of security and privacy coverage enhancements that can be endorsed onto any of the...

New Markets

Nov 5 2006 // New Construction, Remodelers, Owner/DevelopersNuts & Bolts: Network E&S Insurance Brokers LLC has a new limited access Builder’s Risk/Contractors Equipment Program for both residential and commercial....