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New York Regulator ‘Reminds’ Insurers about Accounting Requirements
Feb 23 2009 // New York Insurance Department Superintendent Eric Dinallo issued a reminder last week that insurance companies must file annual financial reports or supplements that comply with the accounting requirements prescribed by...
Guyana Insurer Blames Stanford Group for Losses
Feb 23 2009 // A leading insurance company in Guyana says it has lost nearly $1.5 million in pension funds after investing with Texas financier R. Allen Stanford. Spokesman Hewley Nelson says the “Hand in Hand” company began...
Swimming Downstream: How a Regional Insurer Buy Others Through Demutualization
Feb 22 2009 // Donegal Group’s Strategy Has Helped It Grow From Writing in 1 State to 19 in 20 Years Even in a good economy, mutual insurers face challenges trying to raise the capital they need to grow since they don’t have...
Certificates of Insurance and Agency Liability: What Agents Should Know
Feb 22 2009 // A common practice by insurance carriers is to inform their agents that they should not send the company copies of certificates of insurance when they are issued. This is most likely the result of mail-flow issues with the...
Illinois Supreme Court Rejects Insurer’s Claim That 2 Deaths Were Single Event
Feb 22 2009 // The accidental deaths of two teenage boys at an excavation site in 1997 were separate occurrences under the liability insurance policy of the property owner, the Illinois Supreme Court has ruled in reinstating a $2 million...
Industry Blasts Granholm’s Rate Freeze, Advocate’s Report
Feb 22 2009 // Insurance trade groups have come out swinging against Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s call for auto insurers to freeze rates until lawmakers can enact some of the reforms in a report by the state’s insurance...
Now Playing in Florida: A Scary Surplus Lines Scenario
Feb 22 2009 // Court Rulings Strike Fear That Surplus Lines Could Lose Freedom Have you ever seen anything like this in Florida? Never. I haven’t seen anything like this anywhere in the country. If it were a horror flick it might...
Attitude Adjustment
Feb 22 2009 // The tiff between State Farm Florida and the Office of Insurance Regulation that has culminated in the insurer’s withdrawal from the state’s property market is disturbing. It’s not disturbing because an...
Florida Attaches Major Conditions to State Farm Withdrawal
Feb 22 2009 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty has offered his own plan for State Farm Florida Insurance Co.’s withdrawal from the state that includes conditions not in the insurers’ own plan. McCarty wants State...
Implications of the 2008 Farm Bill
Feb 22 2009 // Could Reduce Agent Commissions, But Create New Insurance Categories The Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 (the Farm Bill) authorizes farm programs for the next five years. The Act’s provisions encompass a...
Top 5 Insurance Issues for Farmers in a Soft Economy
Feb 22 2009 // Review Exposures, Values and Maximize Insurance Value to Ensure Satisfied Farm Customers Thanks in part to commodity prices that are still higher than average and, thankfully, less volatile than in 2008, the agricultural...
Oliver to Retire as President of Texas Mutual Insurance Company
Feb 20 2009 // Russell R. Oliver, president of Texas Mutual Insurance Company since 1995, is retiring from the company at the end of August 2009, the company has announced. “I am very proud of Texas Mutual and our accomplishments,...
Travelers Broadens Coverage for Private/Mutual Insurers
Feb 19 2009 // As mounting economic uncertainty leads to new and increasingly complex business challenges for executives, Travelers Bond & Financial Products has unveiled new program enhancements and a Private/Mutual Insurance...
5 Insurers Asked to Testify at Florida Hearing on Credit Scoring Today
Feb 18 2009 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation will hold a public hearing this morning in Tallahassee about the use of credit scoring, credit history and credit models by insurers in the underwriting and setting of rates. The...
South Carolina Celebrates Licensing 200 Captive Insurers Since 2000
Feb 18 2009 // The South Carolina Department of Insurance is celebrating issuing its the 200th captive insurance company license. State Insurance Director Scott H. Richardson presented the license to Hardin Construction Co. of Atlanta,...
Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Insurer to Pay $7.5M Dividend
Feb 18 2009 // Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation (LWCC) announced it will pay a $7.5 million dividend to qualifying policyholders in February. The pay out will bring LWCC’s cumulative total dividend paid to...
A.M. Best Downgrades Kingsway & Several Subsidiaries
Feb 18 2009 // A.M. Best Co. has downgraded the issuer credit ratings (ICR) and senior debt ratings to “b-” from “b” of Kingsway Financial Services Inc. (KFSI) (Mississauga, Ontario) and Kingsway America Inc....
Aegon, L&G See More Defaults, Insurer Woes Continue
Feb 18 2009 // Writedown woes hit European insurers again on Tuesday as life insurers Legal & General Plc and Aegon NV predicted more companies would default on loans, sending insurance shares down. Legal & General more than...
Beazley Acquiring The Hartford’s Surplus Lines Insurer, First State
Feb 17 2009 // London-based insurer and reinsurer Beazley Group is acquiring Boston-based First State Management Group, an underwriting manager specializing in excess and surplus lines commercial property insurance for $35.4 million in...
Reinsurers Seem Ready to Flex Muscles, Raise Prices by Double-Digits
Feb 17 2009 // Reinsurers’ tough talk about raising prices on the risk cover they sell to insurers may have rung hollow before, but this time the promise is credible. Reinsurance companies such as global leader Munich Re have been...
