Latest Carriers Headlines
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How Agents and Carriers Can Find Gold in Personal Lines
Sep 19 2012 // Independent agents and their companies have over the years been beaten in the personal lines market by direct response carriers and captive agents. But being down so long means there is plenty of room for independent...
ACE Acquires 80% of Indonesia Insurer Asuransi Jaya Proteksi
Sep 19 2012 // ACE Limited announced that it has acquired 80 percent of Indonesian insurer PT Asuransi Jaya Proteksi. The Jakarta-based company is “one of Indonesia’s top 10 general insurers and a leader in personal...
How Low Interest Rates Challenge Insurers and Affect Pricing
Sep 18 2012 // Property/casualty insurers say that principal preservation and total return are the most important objectives of their companies’ portfolio management, yet when asked about their satisfaction level with these two...
Court Orders Rehabilitation for Home Value Insurance Co.
Sep 18 2012 // Home Value Insurance Co. was ordered into rehabilitation by an Ohio court on Aug. 31, 2012, and has been prohibited from selling insurance in the state due to its failure to maintain minimum capital and surplus. The...
Insurer Group PCI Names Wienecke as Senior VP for Government Relations
Sep 17 2012 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) has named Nathaniel F. Wienecke its senior vice president, federal government relations. Wienecke comes to PCI after three years at JPMorgan Chase & Co.,...
Connecticut Attracts Its Second Captive Insurer
Sep 17 2012 // Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy announced last week that Stanley Black & Decker is moving its captive insurance subsidiary, SBD Insurance, Inc., from Vermont to Connecticut, establishing the state’s second...
Re/insurers Increasingly Less Relevant to Global Economy: XL CEO McGavick
Sep 17 2012 // XL’s CEO Mike McGavick doesn’t mince words when it comes to looking at the big, and not very pretty, picture of the state of the re/insurance industry. Address emerging risks, innovate, create new products and...
Myanmar to Open Insurance Sector to Foreigners in 2015
Sep 14 2012 // Myanmar will allow foreign investors into its insurance sector by around 2015 once local private insurers have had time to establish themselves, a senior government official told Reuters. “We need to give these local...
Official: Texas Coastal Insurer Is Unsustainable
Sep 14 2012 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association is not sustainable and likely won’t be until the state spreads the costs of risks associated with major hurricane strikes beyond just Texans living in coastal areas, the...
First Capacity Exchange Hailed as Success by MGA’s, Insurers
Sep 14 2012 // The inaugural Managing General Agents’ Association (MGAA) capacity exchange has been hailed as a success by insurers and MGA’s alike as an effective route to identifying and developing new products and scheme...
Consumer Watchdog Slams Calif. Prop. 33 Campaign over Libya Tragedy
Sep 13 2012 // The battle over an automobile insurance persistency initiative is heating up, with the latest volley over a radio advertisement targeting a military audience that opponents are calling on to be removed following the...
How Florida’s Citizens’ Surplus Loans to Private Insurers Would Work
Sep 12 2012 // Florida’s state-backed property insurer is considering for the first time whether to invest in private insurers to the tune of $350 million, with the hopes these insurers would then take up to 300,000 policies. The...
Arthur J. Gallagher CEO: This Rate Environment Unusual but Better
Sep 12 2012 // Speaking at a recent conference, brokerage Arthur J. Gallagher’s CEO J. Patrick Gallagher described how different today’s commercial insurance rate environment feels, even to an industry veteran like himself....
Low Interest Rates: an Ongoing Problem for the Re/insurance Industry
Sep 12 2012 // Swiss Re’s sigma report analyzing the effect on the insurance industry of the continuing low interest rates doesn’t paint a pretty picture. They have been at historic lows for several years. For instance the...
U.S. Regulators Add Tool to Track Insurers Operating Globally
Sep 11 2012 // State insurance commissioners in the U.S. have agreed to adopt a code that helps track insurers doing business in multiple countries. The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) said it will add the Legal...
Florida’s Citizens’ Plan for Loans to Private Insurers Criticized
Sep 10 2012 // Hurricane-prone Florida’s insurer of last resort, state-run Citizens Property Insurance Corp. on Friday approved a plan to provide up of $350 million in sweetened loans to private companies willing to take over...
Asia’s Insurers Hiring While Bankers Face the Axe
Sep 10 2012 // Slowing economic growth across much of Asia has failed to crimp expansion plans by the region’s insurance companies, even as the rest of the financial industry slashes jobs. While banks and brokerages cut costs and...
Treasury Launches $18 Billion AIG Stock Offering
Sep 10 2012 // The U.S. Treasury Department said it will sell most of its stake in insurer American International Group Inc., making the government a minority investor for the first time since it rescued the company in the depths of the...
Dodd-Frank Provisions Still Hold Concern for Insurers
Sep 10 2012 // The Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 brought the most significant changes to financial regulation in the United States since the regulatory reform that followed the Great Depression. It represented a significant change in the...
Tapping the High Net Worth Market
Sep 10 2012 // How Agents and Carriers Can Find Gold in Personal Lines Independent agents and their companies have over the years been beaten in the personal lines market by direct response carriers and captive agents. But being down so...
