All the headlines from our Underwriting Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 29 2002 // To some it is the greatest thing since sliced bread, but others see it as the most flagrant abuse the insurance industry has every heaped upon the consumer.Insurance companies, consumer advocates and regulators just cannot...
Apr 29 2002 // To some it is the greatest thing since sliced bread, but others see it as the most flagrant abuse the insurance industry has ever heaped upon the consumer.Insurance companies, consumer advocates and regulators just cannot...
Apr 24 2002 // California-based Zenith National Insurance Corp. announced its workers’ compensation subsidiary, Zenith Insurance Company (Zenith), has gone into production with an ACORD 1.0 XML interface with Superior Access...
Apr 16 2002 // Liberty International Underwriters (LIU), a division of Liberty Mutual Group, has contracted with New-Hampshire based Cogentric to utilize Cogentric’s Alcon Security Systems to help businesses manage cyber risks. LIU...
Apr 8 2002 // Brokers, agents and underwriters alike are learning a new way to do business in the hard market, which has meant getting back to basics with more complete and professional submissions as well as better communications...
Mar 27 2002 // American Re-Insurance Company announced the appointment of a new senior management team to direct the five Strategic Business Units of its U.S. property casualty underwriting operations, as well as the appointment of chief...
Mar 25 2002 // The things businesses do not know about their potential liability for what employees do in cyberspace have the potential to become a serious problem.Recent surveys indicate that many businesses do not realize that simply...
Mar 25 2002 // PAULA Financial announced that its underwriting subsidiary, PAULA Insurance Company, will voluntarily cease underwriting workers’ compensation business effective immediately.The decision comes as a result of claims...
Mar 25 2002 // The insurance industry would like the public to believe they have found the holy grail of underwriting: credit scores. Since they now have this vehicle to make sure that only good drivers get good rates and bad ones pay...
Mar 11 2002 // Legislative action was completed March 6 on Utah House Bill 110 after the bill was amended to allow insurers to use credit-based insurance scores for initial underwriting in auto insurance. On rates, the bill still allows...
Mar 11 2002 // When the prospect of selling insurance over the Internet first reared its head, one of the initial impressions it left was that it posed a threat to independent insurance agents and brokers. Futurists proclaimed a new...
Mar 11 2002 // When the prospect of selling insurance over the Internet first reared its head, one of the initial impressions it left was that it posed a threat to independent insurance agents and brokers. Futurists proclaimed a new...
Mar 11 2002 // The National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices (NAPSLO) held its mid-year meeting Feb. 24-27 in San Antonio, Texas—the largest such meeting in the history of the association.Originally scheduled for last...
Mar 7 2002 // GE ERC Commercial Insurance announced two additions at Chicago-based Coregis Insurance Company to enhance service to its public entity customers. Lynn Boyle and Jason Mostofsky have been appointed as Underwriting Leaders,...
Mar 4 2002 // W. R. Berkley Corporation announced the appointments of Richard Agatstein and Joan E. Kapfer, each to the office of senior vice president of Berkley Capital Underwriters, LLC, a recently formed specialty reinsurance...
Mar 4 2002 // PAULA Financial announced that its underwriting subsidiary, PAULA Insurance Company, will voluntarily cease underwriting workers’ compensation business effective immediately.This decision comes as a result of claims...
Feb 28 2002 // The hardening market for Directors and Officers liability coverage is forcing brokers and their clients to accept higher rates, less coverage and larger retentions, panelists told a recent PLUS D&O Symposium. These...
Feb 25 2002 // Analysts and insurance company CEOs who recently addressed the Property/Casualty Insurance Joint Industry Forum in New York City presented remarkably consistent predictions about the future of the insurance industry in the...
Feb 25 2002 // Analysts and insurance company CEOs who recently addressed the Property/Casualty Insurance Joint Industry Forum in New York City presented remarkably consistent predictions about the future of the insurance industry in the...
Feb 25 2002 // Like life itself, insurance began in the ocean, eventually spawning like the varius land-based descendents we’ve come to know. While those terrestrial variants-auto, homeowners, commercial liability, among others-now...