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As Isabel Heads for N.C., Commissioner Urges Storm Readiness
Sep 17 2003 // With Hurricane Isabel threatening North Carolina’s coast, Insurance Commissioner Jim Long today released a comprehensive list of consumer tips to address questions frequently encountered by North Carolinians...
Check Home Cover in Path of Isabel
Sep 17 2003 // Property owners on the Atlantic seaboard who are bracing themselves for Hurricane Isabel should check their insurance coverage and take some basic precautions to secure their homes or businesses, advised the National...
Response Insurance Acquires National Merit Insurance from Unigard
Sep 16 2003 // Response Insurance Company, a direct-to-the-consumer auto insurer based in Meriden Conn., announced it has signed a stock purchase agreement to acquire National Merit Insurance Company from Unigard Insurance Company, a...
Associated Food Dealers of Mich. Say Companies Are Balking at Blackout Claims
Sep 15 2003 // Michael Sarafa, president of the Associated Food Dealers of Michigan, is reportedly calling on Michigan’s Office of Financial and Insurance Services (OFIS) and the State Legislature to look into practices of...
Complaints Against Ill. Insurers Decline Slightly
Sep 11 2003 // Illinois consumers filed fewer complaints about their insurance companies and HMOs according to the 2002 consumer complaint statistics released today by Director of Insurance J. Anthony Clark. A major exception to this...
ISO Authorized to Provide Advisory Pricing Info to Texas Insurers
Sep 11 2003 // Insurance Services Office Inc. (ISO) announced that it is now able to provide advisory information services to Texas insurers for four lines of insurance—commercial auto, personal auto, homeowners and dwelling...
Insurers Sue Terror Supporters for 9/11 Losses
Sep 10 2003 // Dozens of insurance companies, acting as members of five large insurance groups—Chubb, American Re, Zurich American, One Beacon and Crum & Forster—have filed a lawsuit in two cities against Al Qaida and other...
Alliance Disappointed in Insurance Score Class Action Ruling
Sep 8 2003 // The Alliance of American Insurers expressed disappointment with the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision in DeHoyos v. Allstate Insurance Company, which was filed in Texas. The case stems from the Texas-based...
Legislature Committee Looks for Answers in Calif. Workers’ Comp Crisis
Sep 8 2003 // Trying to bring rate relief to California’s employers, the Legislature’s special Workers’ Compensation Conference Committee recently focused its reform aims on a magic number of $3.5 billion in...
How do you Spell Relief’ Surplus Lines
Sep 8 2003 // Premium growth continues unabated for surplus line carriers, the insurance industry’s relief pitchers. They find themselves the beneficiaries of a standard marketplace still skittish about placing risks in lines...
Gov. Bush Sees Hope for Industry in Florida and Nationally
Sep 8 2003 // From medical malpractice to workers’ compensation, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush {R} has been working with insurance industry leaders to solve problems in the Sunshine State during his two terms in office. The issues in...
CWCI’s Nolan Discusses Calif. Workers’ Comp Marketplace
Sep 8 2003 // Insurance Journal staff writer Cynthia Beisiegel recently met up with Michael Nolan, president of the California Workers’ Compensation Institute (CWCI) at the ACIC XIV Annual General Counsel Seminar in Las Vegas....
Model Credit Bill Scores Big
Sep 8 2003 // Six months ago Insurance Journal presciently asked whether a consensus model credit-insurance scoring bill devised by the National Conference of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL) with the cooperation of producers, carriers and...
Alternative Markets Reach New Levels
Sep 8 2003 // “Client, insure thyself!” Well it hasn’t quite reached that point yet, but the hard market has caused insurance buyers to commence an unprecedented search for affordable risk management solutions. Pushed...
Gov. Bush Sees Hope for Industry in Florida and Nationally
Sep 8 2003 // From medical malpractice to workers’ compensation, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) has been working with insurance industry leaders to solve problems in the Sunshine State during his two terms in office. The issues in...
How Do You Spell Relief’ Surplus Lines
Sep 8 2003 // Premium growth continues unabated for surplus line carriers, the insurance industry’s relief pitchers. They find themselves the beneficiaries of a standard marketplace still skittish about placing risks in lines...
Model Credit Bill Scores Big
Sep 8 2003 // Six months ago it was uncertain whether a consensus model credit-based insurance scoring bill devised by the National Conference of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL) with the cooperation of producers, carriers and consumer...
Weiss Ratings: U.S. Insurers’ 9/11 Losses Reach $9.3 Billion
Sep 5 2003 // Weiss Ratings Inc. of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., reported that U.S. property and casualty insurers’ net claims arising from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks reached $9.3 billion by December 31, 2002, compared to $8.5...
Alliance Says Calif. Emergency Regs on Fraud Investigations are Unnecessary
Sep 4 2003 // The California Department of Insurance’s proposal to further regulate the special investigations units of insurance companies is excessive and unnecessary according to the Alliance of American Insurers. In written...
WCIRB Releases Report on Q1 Insurer Experience
Sep 3 2003 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau (WCIRB) has compiled a summary of insurer reports of loss and premium experience valued as of March 31, 2003. This summary is based on data reported to the WCIRB by...
