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A.M. Best: Geopolitical Tensions Hit Insurers’ Prospective Growth in Russia
Feb 12 2015 // Heightened geopolitical tensions spilling over from the Russia-Ukraine crisis, high interest and inflation rates, and low commodity prices are placing pressure on Russia’s economy and its insurance industry’s...
New York MTA’s Captive Insurer to Provide Coverage in Fatal Train-SUV Crash
Feb 11 2015 // New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s (MTA) captive insurer and wholly owned insurance subsidiary First Mutual Transportation Assurance Company (FMTAC) will lead coverage for liability for third party...
Driveway Software, Pinnacle to Offer Usage-Based Insurance Services to Insurers
Feb 11 2015 // Driveway Software and Pinnacle Actuarial Resources have teamed up to offer the auto insurance industry a coordinated usage-based insurance (UBI) approach that includes driver behavior scoring. Auto insurers can now...
Catlin CEO Expects Number of Mergers Among Smaller Insurers to Increase
Feb 11 2015 // Stephen Catlin, who is selling his Lloyd’s of London insurer to XL Group plc for $4.2 billion, expects the pace of mergers among smaller insurers to gather pace. “Anyone who has got a market value of less than...
Ohio Insurance Director Warns Insurers Against Use of Price Optimization
Feb 10 2015 // Lieutenant Governor and Department of Insurance Director Mary Taylor has warned Ohio insurers against the use of price optimization that can result in unfair discrimination. Taylor recently issued Bulletin 2015-01, dated...
CapSpecialty Adds D&O, EPL Product to Insurance Company Coverage Offerings
Feb 10 2015 // CapSpecialty has launched a new insurance company directors & officers/employment practices liability (D&O/EPL) product issued by Capitol Specialty Insurance Corp. Insurance company D&O/EPL is a specialty...
P/C Insurers Expanding Use of Predictive Modeling
Feb 9 2015 // Property /casualty insurance executives believe that predictive modeling has become an essential or very important driver of improved performance over the past six years and they are broadening their use of the application...
Starwood Capital to Sell NYC’s Baccarat Hotel to Chinese Insurer for $230M
Feb 9 2015 // Barry Sternlicht’s Starwood Capital Group agreed to sell New York’s luxury Baccarat Hotel to an affiliate of China’s Sunshine Insurance Group. The 114-room property on Manhattan’s West 53rd Street...
N.Y. Announces New, Targeted Cybersecurity Assessments for Insurers
Feb 9 2015 // New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) today released a report on cybersecurity in the New York insurance industry and announced a series of measures that DFS will take to help strengthen cyber hacking...
Insurer: Oklahoma Jazz Museum’s Workers’ Comp Debt Is Paid
Feb 9 2015 // A major insurer who had the financially shaky Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame on the hook for around $11,200 a couple weeks ago after the museum failed to pay its workers’ compensation premium on time now says the...
Circle of Diversity Serving Nonprofits and Social Services
Feb 9 2015 // Nonprofit and social service organizations are as plentiful and diverse as the world itself. To better serve communities, nonprofits must bend, mold and adapt to rapidly changing conditions and so must the insurance...
P/C Insurers’ Surplus Rose, Profit Fell in 2014’s First 9 Months
Feb 9 2015 // The first nine months of 2014 saw policyholders’ surplus for the U.S. property/casualty insurance industry reach record levels. At the same time, net income after taxes declined substantially and overall...
Deloitte Insurance Report Keys in on Climate Change
Feb 9 2015 // The potential impact of climate change on the insurance industry was important enough for consulting giant Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd. to include the topic as a significant part of its recent 2015 Property and Casualty...
California Court Rejects Insurance Challenge to Prop. 103
Feb 9 2015 // The Sacramento Superior Court issued a decision in mid-January rejecting an insurance industry challenge to the California insurance commissioner’s regulations under Proposition 103. Among other things, Prop. 103...
North Carolina Home Insurers Press Appeal of Rate Hike Denial, While Insurers Press ‘Consent to Rate’ Agreements
Feb 9 2015 // Insurance companies aren’t giving up on their quest to raise premiums on North Carolina homeowners by an average of 25 percent, according to an industry spokesman. The group representing nearly 100 companies selling...
Mississippi Again Weighs Making Insurers Disclose Area Costs
Feb 9 2015 // A group of lawmakers and residents from the Mississippi Gulf Coast are again pushing a bill that would require insurance companies to disclose, by geographic area, how much they are charging to insure property. The idea,...
How Large Firm Risk Managers Rate Commercial Lines Carriers, Brokers
Feb 6 2015 // While commercial insurers have traditionally relied upon insurance brokers to manage customer relationships, large company risk managers are looking for both parties to work together to meet their needs, according to a new...
States Begin Investigating Insurer Anthem’s Data Breach
Feb 6 2015 // Several U.S. states are investigating a massive cyber attack on No. 2 U.S. health insurer Anthem Inc that a person familiar with the matter said is being examined for possible ties to China. Anthem disclosed the attack...
Health Insurer Anthem Hit with Cyber Attack
Feb 5 2015 // Hackers have stolen personal information relating to current and former customers and staff of no. 2 U.S. health insurer Anthem Inc., after breaching an IT system containing data on up to 80 million people, the company...
Canadian Insurer Intact Q4 Profit Nearly Doubles to US$164.8 Million
Feb 5 2015 // Intact Financial Corp, Canada’s largest property and casualty insurer, reported a near-doubling in quarterly profit, boosted by strong growth in underwriting income. The company’s net income rose to C$205...
