Report: The Southeast’s Storm Surge Risk and Florida’s Hurricane Wake-Up Call July 24, 2017 By Amy O'Connor The Southeast has seen its fair share of natural disasters and flooding in the last several years, including two hurricanes...
Alabama, Mississippi Declared Drought-Free for First Time Since 2016 July 24, 2017 Alabama and Mississippi are completely free from drought for the first time in more than a year. A federal assessment...
Agreement Reached to Raise North Carolina Auto Insurance Rates by 2.2% July 24, 2017 North Carolina’s insurance regulator says he’s reached a deal with auto insurers for a premium increase of just over 2...
Mississippi Court: Workers’ Comp Benefits Owed to Officer Injured While Speeding July 24, 2017 Mississippi’s Court of Appeals says the city of Jackson can’t deny workers’ compensation benefits to a police officer injured in...
New Mississippi Seat Belt Law Requires All Passengers to Buckle Up July 24, 2017 A new law in Mississippi requires everyone in a car, truck or SUV to buckle up. And, it will have...
Orchid Underwriters Expands Commercial Lines into Alabama, Mississippi July 24, 2017 Orchid Underwriters Agency, LLC, a specialty underwriter of catastrophic coastal insurance, announced that it expanded its Commercial Lines business to...
A.M. Best Revises Outlooks to Negative for Georgia Farm Bureau Group Members July 24, 2017 A.M. Best has revised the outlooks to negative from stable and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of B+ (Good)...
My New Markets July 24, 2017 Universal Security Policy Market Detail: Encompass Insurance’s (www.encompassinsurance.com) Universal Security Policy combines customers’ personal lines insurance into one annual policy...
Privacy Is New Hot Workplace Issue for EPLI Claims July 24, 2017 By Dick Clarke About 40 percent of employment practices liability policies (EPLI) that I review fail to cover allegations of employment-related breach of...
Nonstandard Auto Market Continues to Fall; Sector Posts Worst Loss Ratio in Decade: A.M. Best July 24, 2017 Loss ratios and operating ratios for the U.S. nonstandard auto insurance market fell to their worst levels in a decade,...