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    • AIG Closes Its Secondary Offering of Shares in Transatlantic Holdings, Inc.

      American International Group, Inc. (AIG) announced that it has closed the previously announced public offering of 29.9 million shares of Transatlantic Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TRH) common stock owned by AIG and its indirect subsidiary, American...

    • Calif. Governor Proposes Sale of Part of State Workers' Comp Fund

      Among Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's ideas to rescue California from a budget shortfall is the sale of a portion of the State Compensation Insurance Fund -- the 95-year-old fund conceived as the insurer of last resort for state workers' compen...

    • Mortgage approvals hit 13-month high

      The number of mortgages approved for house purchase rose to a 13-month high in May as buyers continued to return to the property market, figures showed this morning. A total of 31,162 loans were approved for people buying a property last mo...

    • Almost one in six in negative equity

      Negative equity is blighting nearly one in six prime mortgages in the UK, according to the latest findings from Fitch, the ratings agency. It said that one in ten homeowners with excellent credit records are saddled with mortgages worth mor...

    • Lenders make it harder to secure a mortgage deal

      Two of Britain's biggest mortgage lenders have changed their lending criteria to make it even harder for customers to secure a home loan. Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), which is 70 per cent owned by the taxpayer, has tightened the rules on w...

    • Cigna Corp. Chief Executive Steps Down

      After nine years at the helm of Cigna Corp., H. Edward Hanway said yesterday that he would step aside as chief executive officer and chairman at the end of the year. The Philadelphia health insurance company named Hanway's second-in-command,...

    • Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Reminds Consumers to Protect Their Summer Plans With Appropriate

      HARRISBURG, Pa., June 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Insurance Commissioner Joel Ario today reminded consumers to keep a few insurance concerns in mind if planning a trip, renting a property or renting out their own home to vacationers. Your...

    • WSI: Potential for Unusually Quiet Atlantic Hurricane Season

      Hurricane forecaster WSI Corp. is standing firm with its prediction of 11 named storms, six hurricanes and two intense hurricanes this season, which began June 1. WSI, a provider of weather-driven business solutions, said cooler ocean tempe...

    • A.M. Best's 2009 Insurance Market Briefing - Canada To Take Place September 10 In Toronto

      OLDWICK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- A.M. Best Co. will be hosting an Insurance Market briefing at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, September 10 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. with a lunch to follow. There is no charge to attend this event. Lea...

    • Zurich Warns on Supply Chain Vulnerability

      An increasing number of companies need to examine their vulnerability to disruption to their supply chains, according to Zurich Financial Services Group. The key message is that risk is not being factored well into risk management at the mom...

    • Lenders hidden door

      Government banks are quietly offering much better deals to homeowners in negative equity than to new borrowers with larger deposits. Lloyds-owned Halifax, which is backed 40% by taxpayers, and NatWest, part of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RB...

    • Lenders raise fixes for the second time in a fortnight

      Nationwide Building Society, the UK's third biggest mortgage lender, is raising the cost fixed-rate mortgages for the second time in two weeks. Interest rates on some mortgage deals from Nationwide will jump by half a percentage point from...

    • CML reduced for home repossession

      Fewer homeowners are expected to face repossession this year than originally predicted, the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) said today. The CML reduced its forecast for the total number of repossessions in 2009 from 75,000 to 65,000 to re...

    • Nearly one in six in negative equity

      Negative equity is blighting nearly one in six mortgages in the United Kingdom, according to the latest findings of Fitch, the rating agency. She said that owners of one in ten with excellent credit records are struggling with mortgages ove...

    • Farmers Mobile Command Center Claims Bus to Visit Kansas Insurance Department Thursday, June 25, 2009

      TOPEKA, Kan., June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger and Kansas Insurance Department employees will get a first hand look at one of the Farmers Insurance Group of Companies Mobile Command Center Claims buses (MC...

    • Lightning-Related Insurance Claims Up

      It may not be divine retribution, but lightning struck U.S. insurers 246,200 times last year -- up 39 percent from the 177,100 claims in 2007. That has boosted the total cost of lightning-related claims for property insurers to $1.065 billi...

    • Insurance industry consolidation likely to rise: Report

      Consolidation in the insurance industry is likely to increase this year should companies resolve their financial problems, Deloitte L.L.P. said Monday in a report. For both life and (property/casualty) companies, mergers and divestitures ca...

    • Deloitte: Insurance M&A Likely to Increase in Late 2009

      Increasing numbers of insurers and holding companies are likely to divest non-core insurance businesses in order to fund potential capital shortfalls, resulting in the opportunity for buyers to acquire those businesses on attractive terms, a...

    • Deloitte Finds Insurance M&A Likely to Increase in Late 2009

      NEW YORK, June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- With many insurers and financial institutions looking to fund potential capital shortfalls by divesting non-core insurance businesses at attractive valuations, strategic buyers and sovereign wealth funds ma...

    • FirstBest Systems Named Among Best Places to Work 2009 by Boston Business Journal

      BEDFORD, MA - (Marketwire) - 06/22/09 - FirstBest Systems:, Inc., developer of point of sale: Management Systems (TM) (UMS) that enable insurers to take advantage of better prices, announced today it was named Best Place to Work by the Bost...
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