National News for October 2011 Agents Can Advise Clients on Halloween Coverage, Accident Prevention Why Real Estate Professionals Need E&O Coverage Aspen U.S., V3 Insurance to Offer Misc. E&O, Optional Premises Liability Program Company Health Plans Raising Costs for Smokers, Obese Zurich, Marine Agency Corp. Launch Program for Bodywork Shops, Spas, Salons Aon Profit, Brokerage Revenues Up in Q3; Hewitt Costs Take a Bite ACE Private Risk, ARIS Title Insurance to Provide Risk Management for Fine Art Items Utica National Launches Cybersurance for Small Businesses Ratings Recap: Farmers of Tenn., Wisc. Am. Mutual, Commerce Protetctive Women Launch New Legal Salvo Against Wal-Mart Hedge Fund Guru Cohen to Set up Reinsurance Business EBRM Launches BCS Errors & Omissions Insurance Auto Claims Considered Total Loss Deliver Less Customer Satisfaction: J.D. Power Willis Expands North America Construction Practice RIM Hit with Consumer Lawsuits over BlackBerry Outage High Hopes for High Tech: Interview with New Applied Systems CEO Best Affirms W.R. Berkley and Subs ‘A+’ Ratings; Outlook Stable GEICO App Gives Facebook Users Access to Policies Movie Star Stallone Sued, Accused of Copyright Infringement Over Screenplay Death Toll from U.S. Cantaloupe Listeria Outbreak Rises to 28 Disability Benefits Get Costlier and More Complicated MetLife: Fed Blocks Dividend Increase, Buyback Plans Chartis Expands NextGen Product to Specialty Trade Contractors U.S. Offering Small Businesses Free Cyber Security Tool Generous P/C Sector Seeks Ways to ‘Give Better,’ McKinsey Author Says P/C Industry Gave $500M to Charity in 2010, But More Can Be Done IronHealth Launches New Program to Address Medicare Reporting Requirements AIR Updates Terrorism Insurance Model for U.S. Home Insurance Rates Do Not Reflect Cost of Risk: Aon Benfield Safety Crackdown Not Harming Mining Industry: Official Arch Launches New Stand-Alone EPL Product Last Chance to Participate in IJ’s Agency E&O Survey Summit Business Media Looking for New CEO AIG Fraud Suit Against Bank of America Won’t Be Moved to State Court Chubb Profit Falls in Q3 Breckenridge Insurance Names Hildebrand, Eichhorn to Key Posts Officials Say Bipartisan Deal on Cybersecurity Possible The Doctors Co. Completes Acquisition of FPIC Aspen US, Brownstone to Offer Coverage to Property Owners Applied Systems Names Corporate Development Executive Surplus Lines Group Honors Haldeman, Leonard, Others in Industry Accounting Rules to Hurt Insurers’ Ratios But Not Ratings: Moody’s Allstate’s Q3 Disaster Losses Top $1 Billion Federal Product Safety Database Faces First Legal Challenge PLIS Develops New Bed Bug Liability Program Travelers Latest to Add to Asbestos Reserves Insurance Industry Volunteer Week Underway in 7 States Excessive Drinking Costs About $2 per Drink Court May Revive Viacom Copyright Claim Against YouTube Weather Losses Trim Q3 Profit for Travelers Senators Oppose Flood Insurance Requirement on Properties Near Levees Banks Near Deal with States on Foreclosure Immunity, Refinancing Plan Don’t Miss This Year’s Agency E&O Survey Travelers Launches IntelliDrive Mileage-Based Auto Insurance Treasury Seeks Comments on Improving Insurance Regulation Myself, the Car: Aggressive Driving Linked to Personality Arch Names Whiddon to Head Railroad Casualty Business Workers’ Compensation Market Outlook Still Grim: A.M. Best Travelers Red Umbrella Featured at Trademark Show Toymaker to Pay $1.1 Million Over Recalled Toy Dart Gun BP Gets $4 Billion from Anadarko for Gulf Oil Spill Costs Outlining the Risks of the Business Traveler Obama Pulls Plug on Long-Term Care Plan in Healthcare Law Arch Appoints Whiddon to Lead Railroad Casualty Business Inconsistency Is the Norm in Construction Liability Coverage ACE USA Introduces Healthcare Premises Pollution Policy IronHealth Expands Government E&O Products to Managed Care Organizations IronHealth Introduces Adverse Health Survey Cost Coverage for Nursing Homes Top 10 Excuses From Drivers Caught Using Phones Ratings Recap: HSB, Southern General/Green Star, DAKOTACARE How Hospitals Benefit from Data-Rich Malpractice Insurers SEC Asks Companies to Disclose Cyber Attacks S&P Further Downgrades Ratings of Mariah Re Notes Tech Chiefs Take on Standards, iPad, Light Bulb at Surplus Lines Conference Independent Agencies Showing Signs of Recovery, Says Big ‘I’ Study NIF Group, Ironshore Partner to Insure Health, Human Service Agencies Best Affirms QBE’s US Subsidiaries Ratings; Upgrades North Pointe In Few Years, Social Network Data May Be Used in Underwriting Best Affirms Aspen Specialty, Aspen American Ratings; Outlook Stable 2,100 Jobs Lost in Insurance Industry in August U.S. Sanctions BP, Contractors for Gulf Oil Spill 2 Life Insurers Meet Systemic Risk Criteria NAS Launches Medical Billers, Coders E&O Program Travelers Expands Special Event Insurance W. R. Berkley Sees $50M-$60M Cat Losses for Q3 U.S. Regulators Propose Threshold for Defining Systemic Risk Firms Ratings: RetailFirst, ANICO, Mariah Re, German Mutual, Centurion, Mt. Morris Surplus Lines Execs Address Leadership, Perpetuation What Do YOU Want in Agency E&O? Take the Survey Now Worldwide Facilities Appointed Nationwide Producer for NutraAdvantage Cyber Threats to Expect in Coming Year Best Affirms OneBeacon Group’s Ratings; Outlook Stable Moody’s: P/C Insurers More Mindful of Inflation Risks Best Upgrades Ratings of Sirius America Insurance Company S&P Affirms Nationwide’s ‘A+’ Ratings after Harleysville Buy Ironshore Names Wood as VP for Wholesale Casualty Farmers Insurance Names Linton Chief Marketing Officer U.S. to Reveal Criteria for Systemic Risk Insurers Today Best Removes Balboa Insurance and Members Ratings from ‘Under Review’ 2nd Man Pleads Guilty in Houston in New York Tour Boat Insurance Case Allstate Closes on $1 Billion Acquisition of Esurance, Answer Financial Best Downgrades Kingsway and Affiliates Ratings; Assigns Negative Outlook S&P Affirms Liberty Mutual, Affiliates Ratings; Revises Outlook to Positive S&P Ups Harleysville’s Outlook; Affirms Ratings on Nationwide Deal Del Monte, Barclays to Pay $89.4M to Settle Investors’ Suit MetLife to Take $275M in Charges Related to Life Benefits, Catastrophes Officials Urged to Keep Minimum Health Benefits Affordable HCC Insurance Opens New Primary and Excess Casualty Divisions Survey: A Few More Years Before Med Liability Market Hardens Jansen and Hastings Launch Cove MGA Auto Insurers’ Loss Ratios Rise in Q2: SNL Insurance Execs Form Global Insurance Search Firm Self-Reported Drunk Driving Incidents Fall Republican Report Backs Incentives for Corporate Cybersecurity SLICE-ing Out a Piece of the Market – Insurance for Pizza Parlors Euclid Managers Adopts New Coverages, Approach for Insuring Tech Firms NCPERS Launches Fiduciary Liability Insurance Program with Ullico Casualty Med Liability Insurers in Strong Financial Shape, Report Says The Hartford Plans Staff Cuts; Sells Subrogation Services Unit Trumbull How One Music Downloader Could Change Copyright Law Federal Flood Insurance Program Extended Until Nov. 18 ACE Private Risk Launches Home Contents Valuation Service at Policy Inception Boeing Arrest Points to Workplace Drug Problem 2011 Sets New Record for Federal Disaster Declarations NFIB, EMPLOYERS Expand WC Program to Eight Additional States Ratings Roundup: Unique, Montpelier U.S., MedPro Supreme Court Rejects Internet Music Copyright Case Supreme Court Allows Investor Claim Against Blackstone to Proceed LexisNexis Insurance Exchange Buys MarshBerry Sales Portal Food Illnesses Linked to Multiple Stops Along Food Chain JPMorgan, BofA Sued Over Mortgage Debt Losses Best Affirms American Southern, Parent and Subs Ratings; Outlooks Stable National News Archives
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