Latest Carriers Headlines
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Tennessee Supreme Court Rules for Insurer in Assignment of Benefits Case
Sep 21 2015 // The Tennessee Supreme Court affirmed a lower court’s decision that a chiropractic patient’s assignment of benefits was not an effective assignment of his insurance proceeds from a third party’s insurance...
Cyber Attacks Bring New Clients – Including Insurers – to Defense Firms
Sep 18 2015 // A broadening wave of cyber attacks is drumming up new clients for defense companies as anxiety about the loss of sensitive data spreads from military chiefs to company bosses. Banks, utilities and media groups are the new...
Gen Y Insurance Customers Are Not Happy Bundlers
Sep 17 2015 // The insurance industry has some work to do to win over Gen Y customers, those ages 21 through 38. Members of the Gen Y generation, who were born between 1977 and 1994, are less satisfied with their homeowners insurers than...
Irish Insurers Face Higher Reserves; Fairfax Financial to Invest in FBD Holdings
Sep 17 2015 // Irish insurers will have to set aside significantly more reserves to cover car-crash, workplace injuries and other claims as compensation payouts surge, according to the industry’s regulator. The nation’s...
Guy Carpenter Report Examines Major Emerging Risks Facing Re/Insurers
Sep 16 2015 // A report published by Guy Carpenter & Co., released Sept. 2015, identified four key areas of emerging risk for re/insurers: cyber risk, technology risk, casualty catastrophe and reserving, and life, health and...
Iowa Insurers Assessed $10M for Second Injury Fund
Sep 16 2015 // Sufficient funds are not available to meet the liabilities of the Second Injury Fund in Iowa, the Iowa Insurance Division reported. As result, insurers and self-insured employers in Iowa are being assessed for $10 million....
Hanover Insurance CEO Eppinger to Exit
Sep 16 2015 // Frederick H. Eppinger is stepping down as president, chief executive officer and a director of the Worcester, Mass.-based The Hanover Insurance Group. The announcement said Eppinger, 56, is leaving to pursue other...
Germany’s Talanx Invests in Renewable Energy to Counter Low Interest Rates
Sep 16 2015 // Talanx AG, the German insurance company buying into its first offshore wind farm, said it’s likely to purchase more renewable-energy assets. The insurer sees renewables as offering “long-term, bigger yields...
Moody’s Sees 2015 as Turning Point for P/C Commercial Insurers
Sep 15 2015 // The outlook for the U.S. property/casualty commercial insurance sector is stable but insurers will begin to feel the pressure from compressing margins, according to Moody’s Investors Service. In a new report,...
Aon Launches Cat Model for Marine & Energy Insurers
Sep 15 2015 // Aon Benfield announced it has invested in an innovative catastrophe model to help marine and energy insurers more accurately assess their cargo risks. While there are plenty of catastrophe models in the non-marine sector,...
Texas Associates Insurors Adds Steanson in Austin
Sep 14 2015 // Texas Associates Insurors added J.D. Steanson as its newest risk and insurance advisor, specializing in commercial contractor, home construction contractor and trade contractor risk assessment. Steanson is a member and has...
Maryland Insurance Administration Welcomes 7 New Insurers to Marketplace
Sep 14 2015 // The Maryland Insurance Administration (MIA) today announced seven new insurance companies are approved to offer workers’ compensation and life insurance products in Maryland. “Our goal is to increase options...
Why Now Is Time to Privatize Flood Insurance: a Candid Conversation with Hiscox USA CEO Walter
Sep 14 2015 // The private insurance industry is ready and anxious to take on flood risk, and politicians should reform the federal program now to take advantage of this interest, according to the U.S. executive of a leading specialty...
Fosun’s Guo to Slow Down Global Buying Spree of Insurers, Banks
Sep 14 2015 // Chinese billionaire Guo Guangchang, who calls himself a student of Warren Buffett, says he will slow down a global buying spree over the next two years after his Fosun Group snapped up insurers, banks and fashion companies...
New York Health Insurer’s Data Breach Puts 10M Records at Risk
Sep 11 2015 // Upstate New York health insurer Excellus BlueCross BlueShield on Wednesday said its computer systems and those at affiliates had been breached, exposing data from more than 10 million members, in the latest case to show...
Can U.S. P/C Insurers Handle Equity Market Volatility?
Sep 11 2015 // While some are more exposed than others, U.S. property/casualty insurers generally can handle more significant deterioration in global equity market conditions while maintaining capital positions consistent with current...
Republicans’ Suit Against Obamacare Insurer Reimbursements Advances
Sep 9 2015 // Congressional Republicans were allowed by a judge to pursue their lawsuit accusing the Obama administration of violating the Constitution by spending money on the president’s signature legislative achievement, the...
TDI Posts Summary of Bills Affecting Property/Casualty Insurers
Sep 9 2015 // The Texas Department of Insurance has produced a summary of various bills passed by the Texas Legislature this year that impact property/casualty insurance companies. Many but not all of the following were effective Sept....
Maine Issues Bulletin on Insurance Scoring, Adverse Action Notices
Sep 9 2015 // The Maine Bureau of Insurance recently issued a bulletin advising insurers in the state that use credit information in underwriting or rating personal insurance policies. The bulletin examined the topic of insurance...
Amlin Deal Puts M&A Spotlight on 4 Remaining Publicly Traded Lloyd’s Insurers
Sep 9 2015 // Amlin Plc’s $5.3 billion takeover by a Japanese competitor has put the remaining four publicly traded Lloyd’s of London insurers in the spotlight for a possible takeover. Beazley Plc, Hiscox Ltd., Lancashire...
