Property Insurance
Perspectives: AIG's Example Offers Case Study for Industry's
OLDWICK, N.J., Apr 06, 2009 (A. M. Best via COMTEX) -- High-profile investors like Carl Icahn long have been slapped with the tag activist shareholders, known for their proxy fights and their vocal advocacy on corporate governance issues. B...
News Focus - Lloyd's CFO Goomy about investment.
Copyright 2009 Timothy Benn Publishing LimitedAll Rights Reserved Reinsurance Magazine April 6, 2009 Monday Pg. 6 315 words News Focus - Lloyd's CFO gloomy about investment. UK As with a number of its reinsurance peers, Lloyd's is gloomy ab...
Eliot Spitzer has a lesson to convey
Copyright 2009 Los Angeles TimesAll Rights Reserved Los Angeles Times April 6, 2009 Monday Home Edition SECTION: CALENDAR; Calendar Desk; Part D; Pg. 1 LENGTH: 1588 words HEADLINE: Eliot Spitzer has a lesson to pass along; The disgraced form...
New structures to boost the market Cat Bonds
Copyright 2009 Crain CommunicationsAll Rights Reserved Business Insurance March 30, 2009 950 words New structures revive market for cat bonds; Terms allay concerns on collateral security, but deals costs rise COLLEEN McCARTHY New catastroph...
Motorcycle thefts declining by almost 5 percent over the pas
Copyright: PR Newswire Source: PR Newswire Wordcount: 344 DES PLAINES, Illinois, March 31 / PRNewswire-USNewswire / - A new report by the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) shows that motorcycle thefts are similar trends in response to...
Brain Fitness Steers Driver Safety Initiative
PRNewswire Published: Monday, March 30, 2009 Posit Science and Allstate Offer Software in Pennsylvania SAN FRANCISCO, March 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Posit Science, the brain fitness company, announced today that it has extended its relationship w...
Insurers Pain Closed in 2008, Hope 2009 brings change
(BestWire Services Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Investment losses and continuing downward pressure on rates left many commercial insurers reeling during the fourth quarter of 2008. Although some saw signs of at least a stabilization of rates...
Real Reality TV means risk and sometimes difficult to cover
Copyright 2009 A.M. Best Company, Inc.All Rights Reserved BestWire March 30, 2009 Monday 10:02 AM EST 764 words Reality TV Means Real Risks and Sometimes Tricky Coverage Meg Green OLDWICK, N.J. Chris Rogers, director of risk control for brok...
Americans Weigh In On Obama's Automaker Bailout Plan
Free Personal Audit Scam Kit makes you a hero with your clients INSTANT DOWNLOAD: Top 10 investment scams to watch. Last chance to help save the pension industry If you sell annuities, this is your only chance to prevent change and protect...
P/C Execs Look Ahead to Mitigation, Retention, Rates
Chad Hemenway OLDWICK, N.J., Mar 30, 2009 (A. M. Best via COMTEX) -- Several destructive tropical storm systems and continued turmoil on Wall Street marked the fourth quarter of 2008. These factors drove up combined ratios and put a dent in...
Commercial property of the United States Bank Rescue
(Estates Gazette Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) commercial real estate lending and commercial mortgage securities will be included in the U.S. Treasury, multi-billion-dollar plan to strengthen the balance sheets of banks and loan kickstart. Th...
AIG Puts Industry Backlash 'Back to Square One ", say l
WASHINGTON, March 30, 2009 (AM Best via COMTEX) - AIG | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating - The anger still simmering over 165 million dollars in bonuses paid to certain American International Group Inc. employees seized the Capitol, he le...
Meeting Climate Change Head On
The worlds climate is changing. An increase in the severity and frequency of extreme weather is impacting daily life for the global community. Mounting evidence from the scientific community makes it increasingly clear that climate change i...
NAIC Requires Disclosure Of Climate Change Risks
Copyright 2009 Crain CommunicationsAll Rights Reserved Business Insurance March 23, 2009 794 words NAIC requires disclosure of climate change risks; Measure mandates annual questionnaire for largest insurers MEG FLETCHER The National Assn. o...
AIG's Risk Management Team Largely Intact
Copyright: United Press International Source: UPI Business News Wordcount: 197 Big changes in direction between the beleaguered companies like American International Group Inc. May not be the wisest move, an executive consultant said. Debor...
Conn. lawmakers Hold Hearing On AIG Bonuses
Copyright: The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material May not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Source: AP Online Wordcount: 118 HARTFORD, legislators will ask Conn._Connecticut an executive of American Inte...
NAMIC works with U.S. Treasury Department in advance of the
WASHINGTON (March 25, 2009) During the meeting, the NAMIC officials and Treasury staff discussed the critical elements of the property/casualty insurance industry: that the industry is highly competitive and well capitalized, and that its s...
Want Financial enlarged heads Reach; Points Up AIG need to e
Copyright 2009 Gannett Company, Inc.All Rights Reserved USA TODAY 25 March 2009 Wednesday FIRST EDITION SECTION: MONEY; Pg 1B LENGTH: 412 words TITLE: Financial leaders want wider scope; AIG points need to expand the powers, they say Signat...
Dinallo: Confluence risk regulations are based AIG Meltdown
(BestWire Services Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Financial Regulations which made possible the supermarkets have led them to take on the hedge fund type of risk, New York Insurance Superintendent Eric Dinallo said in an interview Monday with...
Global Aerospace, Catlin reported to insurers for FedEx plan
TOKYO, March 25, 2009 (AM Best via COMTEX) - FDX | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating - Global Aerospace Underwriting Management and Catlin Group [84,805] would be the insurers for a cargo aircraft from FedEx that crashed to the landing in...
Storm cleanup begins
Copyright: The Salina Journal, Kan. Source: Salina Journal (KS) Wordcount: 1048 Mar. 25 - The cleanup and fixup were underway Tuesday after strong winds Monday, and power was restored to most customers by early Tuesday morning Salina, a spo...
JD Power and Associates Reports: Width of product availabili
Copyright: PR Newswire Source: PR Newswire Wordcount: 942 JD Power and Associates Reports: Width of product availability and Main - No Compensation - Drive Insurance Agent Satisfaction with insurance companies Agency satisfaction is closely...
Willis Group Holdings names CEO Tony Ursano, Willis Capital
Copyright: Business Wire Source: Business Wire Wordcount: 556 Business Editors / Insurance Writers NEW YORK - (BUSINESS WIRE) - March 24 2009 - Willis Group Holdings (NYSE: WSH), the global insurance broker, today announced the appointment...
PCI opposes repeal of McCarran-Ferguson Act
WASHINGTON-David A. Sampson, president and CEO of Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI), today issued the following statement in response to the introduction of the Insurance Act competition: The so-called Competition Act...
Louisiana Workers' Comp Rates diving for the third consecuti
(BestWire Services Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Workers' compensation in Louisiana, insurance rates are set for double-digit declines, the third consecutive year of decline in the state, due to a continued decline in demand frequency. Based...
Winter storms to affect the results of the first quarter of
(BestWire Services Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) An exceptionally severe winter is expected to increase in the first quarter, the loss of Hanover Insurance Group, the company said. Weather-related claims activity is expected to increase the i...
Applies to Write Geico auto insurance in Massachusetts
BestWire Services Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) The market for automobile insurance in Massachusetts may have another person - the third largest U.S. supplier of auto insurance - if regulatory approvals are granted. Berkshire Hathaway-owned G...
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