A.M. Best Co. has upgraded the financial strength rating to ‘A++’ (Superior) from ‘A+’ (Superior) and the issuer credit rating to “aa+” from “aa” of French government reinsurer Caisse Centrale de Reassurance (CCR), and has assigned stable outlooks to both …
Police said a south Alabama woman admitted to shooting her show horse to death in May, burning a barn with the animal inside and attempting to collect $100,000 in insurance on the horse named Abby. Brenda Gradia, 41, of Flomaton, …
Los Angeles, Ca. LA’s Best Insurance Services acquired Mid-C Insurance Services on May 30th, 2008. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Mid-C Insurance was established 50 years ago and specializes in Personal Lines Insurance Coverage’s. Owner Christie Cummings said …
Science and technology are converging with risk management to help insurers negotiate the current hurricane season such that it’s now possible to use short-term hurricane forecasts — as few as 10 days out — to design coverage targeting a specific …
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Where Regional P/C Insurers Beat Out Nationals … and Where Nationals Outperform Regionals Regional carriers rate better in underwriting experience, relationships and stability as well as in customer service and agency relations than their national competitors in the view of …
U.S. insurers, in an industry awash in excess capital, face a stretch of turbulence that won’t soon abate, according to analysts at a recent Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services conference. “We’re sitting in an environment where we have way too …
Stock Prices: The brokerage sector as a whole is down 3 percent for the year. Among middle-market brokers, Arthur J. Gallagher’s (NYSE:AJG) stock has faired well compared to peers Brown & Brown (NYSE:BRO), down 16.6 percent, and Hilb Rogal & …
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How to Keep Your Customers and Agency Living Happily Ever After Once upon a time, there was a very nice man who moved his entire family from one state to another. The move meant leaving his many friends and business …
