All the headlines from our Underwriting Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 10 2002 // Before creating joint underwriting associations to provide difficult-to-obtain insurance, such as for medical malpractice or nursing homes, state regulators should encourage coverage by surplus lines’ insurers. The...
Jun 10 2002 // If you’re placing coverage for contractors, there are three factors that determine what obstacles you will encounter: location, location, location.The real question is whether it will stay that way or whether...
Jun 10 2002 // If you’re placing coverage for a client who is a contractor, there are three factors that determine what obstacles you will encounter: location, location, location. The real question, however, is whether it will stay...
Jun 7 2002 // ProgramBusiness.com, a portal for retailers, wholesalers, MGAs and carriers, has opened ProgramBusiness.com Trading Floor, where retailers and wholesalers can post single accounts and books of business to be viewed by...
Jun 5 2002 // AscendantOne, Inc. has made available RiskFocus, a unified, comprehensive underwriting/rules engine for automated underwriting and real time risk decision support across all personal and commercial lines of property &...
Jun 3 2002 // Hub International Limited has completed the previously announced sale of its underwriting subsidiaries, Old Lyme Insurance Company of Rhode Island, Inc. and Old Lyme Insurance Company, Ltd. (Old Lyme) to Fairfax, Inc....
May 27 2002 // By and large, camp insurance is following most commercial insurance in that it is more expensive,” according to Ron Norton, a sales executive with Indiana-based K&K Insurance.While prices generally have been on...
May 27 2002 // By and large, camp insurance is following most commercial insurance in that it is more expensive,” according to Ron Norton, a sales executive with Indiana-based K&K Insurance.While prices generally have been on...
May 27 2002 // By and large, camp insurance is following most commercial insurance in that it is more expensive,” according to Ron Norton, a sales executive with Indiana-based K&K Insurance.While prices generally have been on...
May 21 2002 // The St. Paul Companies announced that Michael D. Price, 35, has been appointed chief underwriting officer at St. Paul Re, the group’s reinsurance operation, and eventually will hold the same post at Platinum...
May 17 2002 // Insurance Services Office, Inc. (ISO) has launched its new Automobile-Property Loss Underwriting Service (A-PLUSTM) database to provide insurers, brokers and agents comprehensive automobile loss information, so they can...
May 15 2002 // A new underwriting system providing users with production efficiencies, advanced rules enforcement, systems control and graphic reporting capabilities, will be unveiled by Insurance Data Processing (IDP) at IASA 2002,...
May 14 2002 // The St. Paul Companies has formed a new underwriting operation that will target large national and regional property risks in the U.S. The new operation, Property Solutions, will offer a full range of property insurance...
May 13 2002 // After suffering its first ever net loss in 2001,an extraordinary and dismal year by anyone’s reckoning, the property/casualty industry finally received some good news as earnings reports for the first quarter of 2002...
May 13 2002 // Agents have faced the problem ever since insurance companies first introduced applications. Each company had its own form, so the agent who wanted to submit the same account to several underwriters had to write the same...
May 13 2002 // After suffering its first ever net loss in 2001, an extraordinary and dismal year by anyone’s reckoning, the property/casualty industry finally received some good news as earnings reports for the first quarter of...
May 13 2002 // Agents have faced the problem ever since insurance companies first introduced applications. Each company had its own form, so the agent who wanted to submit the same account to several underwriters had to write the same...
May 9 2002 // Citing improved results in its specialty underwriting operations and continued profitability in its agency and fee-based business, alternative risk management specialist Meadowbrook Insurance Group Inc. of Southfield,...
May 8 2002 // Iowa-based Acceptance Insurance Companies Inc., an insurance holding company providing agricultural risk management products and services throughout the U.S., announced a net after-tax loss of $4.3 million, or $0.30 per...
Apr 29 2002 // The property/casualty insurance industry reported a statutory rate of return of negative 2.7 percent in 2001, down from 6.5 percent return for the year 2000. The results were released by the Insurance Services Office, Inc....