All the headlines from our Underwriting Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 22 2001 // Users of A-PLUS™, Insurance Services Office Inc.’s loss-history underwriting service, can now order and retrieve information through ISO Passport(SM), ISO’s new Internet-based delivery system. A-PLUS –...
Aug 21 2001 // FileNET Corp., a provider of business process management solutions, announced the availability of Acenza Underwriting and Policy Administration, the latest addition to FileNET’s Acenza for Insurance suite of...
Aug 20 2001 // The Progressive Corporation reported that for July 2001, the Company produced a GAAP combined ratio (CR) of 94.7. Net premiums written for the month increased 16 percent to $732.3 million, compared to $634.0 million last...
Aug 20 2001 // I find that nursing homes are in a serious crisis in trying to obtain medical liability coverage,” Texas Insurance Commissioner José Montemayor said in February, as he announced the Texas Department of Insurance...
Aug 20 2001 // One burdensome fact of professional life for agents is that the industry may be the unrivaled champion when it comes to accessing and maintaining consumer information. This information can come from a variety of sources...
Aug 7 2001 // Catastrophe insurance specialist International Catastrophe Insurance Managers, LLC (ICAT) has named Shannon King Regional Underwriting Manager for California and Cathy Schablitsky Regional Underwriting Manager for...
Jul 23 2001 // If the hospitality market has firmed recently to, say, the consistency of crème brulée, will it necessarily become more like peanut brittle in the coming months? Who knows? But like many areas of today’s economy,...
Jul 23 2001 // Environmental pollution policies – they’re not just for oil industry giants and radioactive waste depositories anymore.Even the most seemingly benign businesses may carry the risk of producing, storing or...
Jul 16 2001 // The U.S. property/casualty industry’s net income after taxes dropped 5.4 percent to $5.6 billion in first-quarter 2001 from $5.9 billion in first-quarter 2000, according to Insurance Services Office Inc. (ISO) and...
Jun 29 2001 // Administaff, Inc., the nation’s leading Professional Employer Organization (PEO), today announced that it has selected The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. to underwrite the guaranteed-cost workers’...
Jun 27 2001 // The U.S. property/casualty industry’s net income after taxes dropped 5.4 percent to $5.6 billion in first-quarter 2001 from $5.9 billion in first-quarter 2000, according to Insurance Services Office Inc. (ISO) and...
Jun 26 2001 // Zurich North America Surety announced it has established dedicated teams to manage its Commercial Surety line of business. Previously, many of the company’s field representatives were responsible for handling both...
Jun 25 2001 // Pasadena, Calif.-based PAULA Financial (PAULA) and the managing general agency Great Northern Underwriters (GNU) of Portland, Ore., recently entered into a partnership, the first step of which entails the incorporation of...
Jun 18 2001 // PAULA Financial and Great Northern Underwriters (GNU) of Portland, Ore., have agreed to terms that allow for PAULA to acquire GNU at a future date. The two companies have arranged a strategic collaboration in which GNU...
Jun 11 2001 // The commercial operations of SAFECO Business Insurance (SBI) and SAFECO Commercial Insurance (SCI) will be consolidated into one organization in an effort to concentrate on small- to medium-sized business accounts, SAFECO...
Jun 5 2001 // International Risk Group announced today that Connie Riddell, has joined the company as president of Colorado-based International Environmental Risk Underwriters. Riddell was formerly a principal in Bichon Group LLC, and...
Jun 1 2001 // Sherwood Insurance Services’ proprietary facility, e-Sher Underwriting Managers, has partnered with Global Risk Exchange, a secure, online insurance supply chain platform which aims to streamline the entire...
May 15 2001 // Liberty International Underwriters (L.I.U.), a division of Liberty Mutual Group, has formed an alliance with Cogentric to assess e-business sites for companies seeking cyber insurance. Available this summer, L.I.U.’s...
May 13 2001 // 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 11 2001 // Pennsylvania Professional Liability Joint Underwriting Association appointed Susan M. Sersha as president. Under the association’s Plan of Operations, Sersha also serves as a member of the association’s Board...