Yearly Archives: <span>2006</span>

News Currents

Highway safety nominee to address vehicle crashes The Bush administration’s choice to lead the government’s traffic safety agency pledged this month to make the nation’s highways and roads safer for families while tackling issues like vehicle rollovers and teenage crashes. …

By Jerry Johns

The facts about credit information and insurance The use of credit history, one of many underwriting tools, is not a new concept and one that has received strict scrutiny from insurance regulators and consumer advocates around the country. Some insurers …

New Markets

New Markets Nuts & Bolts: The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. introduced Universal Excess, a new excess insurance policy that fits firmly over directors and officers, fiduciary, employment practice, miscellaneous professional and tech errors and omissions products issued by any …

News Currents

Illinois state pool benefits from hard fought compromise health funding bill Illinois’ state health insurance pool should get $5.4 million under a compromise measure Sen. Dick Durbin helped push through after negotiating a more than $1 million increase over what …

When used correctly, finite re can fill environmental liability gap Aon’s Bennink sees needs for ‘tarnished’ product gro

When people forget about abusing finite reinsurance to manipulate earnings, they see the advantages and the products sells on its own, especially when pollution liability is an issue. Finite reinsurance has gotten a lot of negative publicity within the past …

RECORD DEAL ENDS LITIGATION

INJURED WORKERS V. SAFETY Workers safer at job than home NONPROFITS NEW EXPOSURES Surprise in underwriting tactics SPECIAL REPORT: COMMERCIAL AUTO Universal Life, dropped sale unusual E & S SNAPSHOT SURVEY Wholesalers see steady growth in 2006

Editor’s Note: Real-time has come

Prompt adoption by agencies of the technology is important because the companies and vendors are closely monitoring agency usage in deciding whether to invest in it further. Imagine going online to receive competing rates for an account from multiple carriers …

News Briefs

JPMorgan Chase sells life and annuity business to Protective Life JPMorgan Chase & Co. has agreed to sell its life insurance and annuity underwriting business to Protective Life Corp. for about $1.2 billion in cash. JPMorgan Chase has its corporate …

When the nonprofit insurer is itself a nonprofit

This underwriting approach might surprise those for-profit insurers. Her underwriters rarely see an account they won’t price or renew. Over the years, many a vexed property casualty insurance company executive has joked about his firm being a nonprofit, blaming pricing …

Nonprofits invite new exposures when they act like for-profits

The risk to nonprofits may actually exceed that facing for-profits because nonprofits may have smaller budgets, less financial and legal help, and undefined employment practices. As they face pressure to do more with less, nonprofit organizations are increasingly modeling some …