Latest Carriers Headlines
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Insurers Ponder Risk of Encouraging Trees to Fight Global Warming
Dec 1 2008 // Paying landowners to let forests grow is promoted by the United Nations as a viable way to fight global warming, but experts first have to puzzle out how to insure trees against going up in smoke. Under U.N. plans, owners...
China Insurers Dodge Financial Crisis Bullet, But Risks Loom
Dec 1 2008 // China’s 3 trillion yuan ($440 billion) insurance industry was largely insulated from the U.S. subprime crisis that battered AIG and other foreign firms, but the fallout poses the toughest challenge in a decade as...
Florida Workers’ Compensation Insurers Seek 8.9% Rate Hike Due to Court Ruling
Nov 30 2008 // A Florida Supreme Court ruling has resulted in a request to raise workers compensation rates by 8.9 percent. The National Council on Compensation Insurance filed the request, citing last month’s ruling in which...
Time to Sue
Nov 30 2008 // Contractual Limitations Provisions in Insurance Policies: What Every Agent and Broker Needs to Know Generally, the statute of limitations for the breach of an oral agreement is four years. However, a shorter period is...
All Claims Are Local
Nov 30 2008 // Multinational Claims Require Knowledge of Culture, Currency and Legal Climate In today’s borderless global economy, claims can arise in just about any part of the world where a company does business. Even small and...
New York Warns Insurers about Some Homeowners’ Cancellations
Nov 30 2008 // New York’s Department of Insurance has this advice for insurers in the Empire State: Stop canceling homeowners’ policies simply because a house in unoccupied. That announcement came in the form a circular...
Lloyd’s Conference Finds Progress in Insurers Efforts on Climate Change
Nov 26 2008 // Over 100 representatives from the financial services sector met at Lloyd’s on Nov. 24 to listen to what the insurance industry has been doing to combat climate change. The conference, held for the first time this...
Treasury Undecided Over Federal Bailout Funds for Life Insurers
Nov 26 2008 // Life insurance companies, nervous over massive investment losses that could ultimately threaten their viability, are hoping they are next in line to get a piece of the U.S. financial bailout. They argue federal funds could...
In Florida, Insurers Thankful No Major Hurricane Tested State Fund
Nov 25 2008 // As the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season officially comes to a close this on Nov. 30, Florida can be thankful for being spared from any major hurricane strike again this season. However, the dangers hurricanes present and the...
New York Reminds Insurers They Must Treat All Married Couples Equally
Nov 25 2008 // Insurance companies must treat same-sex couples in New York who were legally married outside the state the same as any other validly married couples, irrespective of the sex of the spouses, Insurance Superintendent Eric...
China Life Interested in Acquring AIG Asia Assets
Nov 24 2008 // China Life Insurance Co, the world’s biggest life insurer by market value, is interested in buying Asian assets of American International Group, a senior China Life manager briefed on the situation said on...
AEGON’s Bid for TARP Cash Doomed
Nov 21 2008 // A Dutch insurer’s experimental bid to tap the U.S. government for bailout cash looks doomed to failure, closing off an avenue for other insurers. Aegon NV said this week it was mulling buying a small U.S. bank to...
Oklahoma Physician Liability Insurer Declares Policyholder Dividends
Nov 21 2008 // Oklahoma City-based Physicians Liability Insurance Company (PLICO), announced it is declaring a dividend for its 2008 policyholders who renew their policies for 2009. The dividend will be either 3 percent or 6 percent of...
Massachusetts AG Wants Hearing on Insurance Company’s Auto Rates
Nov 21 2008 // Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has asked the Division of Insurance to initiate an administrative rate proceeding to review the new auto insurance rates of Premier Insurance Co., a subsidiary of Travelers...
Health Insurers Back Universal Coverage with Individual Mandate
Nov 20 2008 // The nation’s health insurers have proposed guaranteed coverage for people with pre-existing medical conditions in conjunction with an enforceable individual coverage mandate. Under the industry proposal, health plans...
Lauve to Lead Insurors Group
Nov 20 2008 // Peter Lauve, of Abilene, Texas, has been picked as president of Texas-based Insurors Group, effective Oct. 8. As president, Lauve, also a partner with CBS Insurance located in Abilene, will lead a leading network of agents...
Best, S&P Affirm State Auto Ratings Following Rockhill Agreement
Nov 20 2008 // Both A.M. Best Co. and Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services have affirmed their respective ratings on the State Auto Group of Companies, which are in turn the operating divisions of State Auto Financial...
New York Warns Insurers about Some Homeowners’ Cancellations
Nov 20 2008 // New York Department of Insurance has this advice for insurers in the Empire State: Stop canceling homeowners’ policies simply because a house in unoccupied. That announcement came in the form a circular letter...
North Carolina Urged to Reform Beach Plan Before It’s Too Late
Nov 19 2008 // Another insurance trade group has joined in urging North Carolina officials to reform the state’s coastal insurance pool before it grows so big it swamps smaller insurance companies. The anticipated growth of the...
State Auto to Purchase Rockhill Insurance Group
Nov 19 2008 // State Automobile Mutual Insurance Company has announced that it has agreed to acquire Rockhill Insurance Group of Kansas City, Mo. Closing is expected in the first quarter of 2009, subject to approval by regulatory...