Latest Carriers Headlines
All the headlines from our Carriers Topic Page, ordered by recency.
N.Y. Agents Decry Failure to Make Back-Up Property Insurer Permanent
Jul 7 2006 // The New York State Legislature once again missed an opportunity to help calm a growing homeowners insurance crisis in the downstate region, according to the state’s insurance agents. With insurance companies such as...
Ill. Attorney General Sues Liberty Mutual for Alleged Bid-Rigging
Jul 7 2006 // Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan filed a lawsuit against Liberty Mutual Insurance Company and seven affiliates, alleging that the company and its affiliates participated in a bid-rigging and business-steering...
S.C. DoI Monitoring Florida Select Insurance Co.’s Activities
Jul 5 2006 // The Department of Insurance has announced it is closely monitoring the activities in South Carolina of Florida Select Insurance Co. activities in the state after Florida placed the company into receivership June...
Two Insurers Approved for Selling for Kidnapping Coverage in La.
Jul 5 2006 // Insurance coverage has been approved in Louisiana to take on a realm of the once-unthinkable: kidnappings, ransom, extortion and hijacking. Although it’s not for everyone, high-profile people, such as corporate...
Albuquerque Lawyer Who Sued Insurer Awarded $11 million
Jul 5 2006 // A New Mexico State district court jury has awarded an Albuquerque lawyer nearly $11 million after she sued an insurance company that she said ruined her legal practice. Allstate Insurance Co. routinely hired Suzanne Guest...
News Briefs
Jul 4 2006 // EU Leaders Fiddle While Europe Burns: The crisis in the European Union, provoked when French and Dutch voters rejected the EU Constitution, is being largely ignored by Europe’s leaders. Instead of a bit of...
Target Markets Mid-Year Meeting
Jul 4 2006 // Program administrators, painfully aware how difficult it can be to get insurance companies to sign on, improve their chances of program success when they tell the complete story of their operations and history, including...
What Lines Program Insurers Like, Dislike
Jul 4 2006 // Insurers’ appetite for targeted insurance programs still favors larger deals and shuns workers’ compensation risks, according to one expert’s analysis of conditions. Benfield Inc. Senior Vice President C....
The right time to begin
Jul 4 2006 // Nearly five years ago, a group of program specialists gathered in Tempe, Ariz., for the first summit meeting of a budding industry organization called the Target Markets Program Administrators Association. The brainchild...
Laying the Groundwork for New Insurance Programs
Jul 4 2006 // While many new insurance program ideas emerge from various sources, very few result in the actual formation of a program. It is generally only those that are well-thought-out, include substantive information, and are...
Editor’s Note: Exemption protection
Jul 3 2006 // The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee last month received testimony on whether to continue the insurance antitrust exemption contained in the 1945 McCarran-Ferguson Act. This law placed responsibility for insurance...
Appeals Court rules insurer’s indemnity obligation is joint and several
Jul 3 2006 // The Court of Appeals of Oregon has decided that an insurance company’s indemnity obligation to its policyholders is joint and several, not pro-rata, in environmental liability insurance coverage case. In Cacade Corp....
Federal insurance antitrust exemption: Insurer, consumer friend or foe?
Jul 3 2006 // Congress opened debate on the insurance industry’s exemption from federal antitrust laws, with some larger insurers indicating a willingness to relinquish the exemption in exchange for regulatory reform that would...
Healthcare liability moves beyond hospitals to specialized facilities
Jul 3 2006 // Someone once said “change is inevitable” and in the health care arena that especially rings true. It wasn’t so long ago that the only place a person would go for immediate treatment was the emergency room...
Insuring Indian country
Jul 3 2006 // Indian tribes are no longer merely casino entrepreneurs or cigarette wholesalers. In conjunction with America’s largest corporations, Indians are now engaged in real estate development, banking and finance,...
News Currents
Jul 3 2006 // Risk mixing and matching with miscellaneous health care facilities Someone once said “change is inevitable,” and in the health care arena that truism rings a bell. It wasn’t so long ago that the only...
Risk mixing and matching with miscellaneous health care facilities
Jul 3 2006 // Someone once said “change is inevitable,” and in the health care arena that truism rings a bell. It wasn’t so long ago that the only place a person would go for immediate treatment was the emergency room...
Insuring Indian country
Jul 3 2006 // Indian tribes are no longer merely casino entrepreneurs or cigarette wholesalers. In conjunction with America’s largest corporations, Indians are now engaged in real estate development, banking and finance,...
Editor’s Note: Exemption protection
Jul 3 2006 // The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee last month received testimony on whether to continue the insurance antitrust exemption contained in the 1945 McCarran-Ferguson Act. This law gave states responsibility for insurance...
News Currents
Jul 3 2006 // Appeals Court rules insurer’s indemnity obligation is joint and several The Court of Appeals of Oregon has decided that an insurance company’s indemnity obligation to its policyholders is joint and several, not...
