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Third-generation industry executive shares insight on regulatory matters

Feb 26 2007 // Sullivan discusses reinsurance collateralization, surplus lines regulation reform Gerald Sullivan, chairman of Los Angeles-based The Sullivan Group, has been said to have grown up reading insurance rating manuals instead...

A look behind the very good property/casualty results for 2006

Feb 26 2007 // The numbers, or estimates, for the property/ casualty insurance industry for 2006 are in. Dr. Robert Hartwig, president and chief economist of the Insurance Information Institute, sat down with Insurance Journal’s...

Coming to the Rescue: States get ready to modernize surplus lines regulation

Feb 26 2007 // Bernd (Bernie) G. Heinze, executive director of the American Association of Managing General Agents (AAMGA), recalls a perfect example of the regulatory difficulties the surplus lines industry faces. A colleague at a...

A look behind the very good P/C results for 2006

Feb 25 2007 // News Currents The numbers, or es-timates, for the property casualty insurance industry for 2006 are in, and Dr. Robert Hartwig, president and chief economist of the Insurance Information Institute, discussed them with...

A look behind the very good P/C results for 2006

Feb 25 2007 // News Currents The numbers, or es-timates, for the property casualty insurance industry for 2006 are in, and Dr. Robert Hartwig, president and chief economist of the Insurance Information Institute, discussed them with...

Third-generation industry executive shares insight on regulatory matters

Feb 25 2007 // Gerald Sullivan, chairman of Los Angeles-based The Sullivan Group, has been said to have grown up reading insurance rating manuals instead of Mother Goose books. He is the third generation to enter the insurance business...

A look behind the very good property/casualty results for 2006

Feb 25 2007 // News Currents The numbers, or estimates, for the property/ casualty insurance industry for 2006 are in. Dr. Robert Hartwig, president and chief economist of the Insurance Information Institute, sat down with Insurance...

Coming To The Rescue

Feb 25 2007 // Bernd (Bernie) G. Heinze, executive director of the American Association of Managing General Agents (AAMGA), recalls a perfect example of the regulatory difficulties the surplus lines industry faces. A colleague at a...

Lloyd’s Raises Novae Syndicate Assessment To ‘2+’; Outlook Stable

Feb 20 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has raised its Lloyd’s Syndicate Assessment (LSA) on London-based Novae – Syndicate 2007 to ‘2+’ from ‘2’ and assigned a stable...

Indemnity Excess & Surplus Agency Expands Online Quoting System

Feb 15 2007 // Indemnity Excess & Surplus Agency has added two products to itsonline quoting facility: real estate agent errors and ommissions and condominium owner/tenant package. In addition to the new real estate agents E&O...

Surplus Lines and Reinsurance Reform Legislation Reintroduced in Congress

Feb 15 2007 // Federal legislation that would establish national standards for state regulation of the surplus lines and reinsurance markets made its second appearance into Congress today. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, R-Fla., and Rep. Dennis...

Guy Carpenter Makes Management Changes

Feb 13 2007 // Guy Carpenter & Company, LLC, the risk and reinsurance specialist of the Marsh & McLennan Companies, has announced a number of changes to its executive leadership teams in North America, the United Kingdom and...

New Wholesale Broker, Camford National, Opens in N.J.

Feb 13 2007 // Lebanon, N.J.-based Camford National Insurance Brokers LLC, has opened as a specialty lines wholesale insurance brokerage serving property/casualty agents and brokers both nationally and internationally. Camford National...

Lloyd’s climbs on the climate change bandwagon

Feb 12 2007 // There’s little doubt that the world is getting warmer. But this raises more questions. To what extent are greenhouse gasses, particularly CO2, responsible? Will the warming trend continue? Are there any effective...

Lloyd’s climbs on the climate change bandwagon

Feb 11 2007 // There’s little doubt that the world is getting warmer. But this raises more questions. To what extent are greenhouse gasses, particularly CO2, responsible? Will the warming trend continue? Are there any effective...

Prime Authorized to Write Surplus Lines in La., Texas

Feb 9 2007 // Prime Holdings Insurance Services Inc. announced that its subsidiary, Prime Insurance Company has received approval to write surplus lines business in Louisiana as of Jan. 24, 2007, and Texas effective Feb. 1. Prime,...

Prime Authorized to Write Surplus Lines in Texas

Feb 8 2007 // Chicago, Illinois and Salt Lake City, Utah – Prime Holdings Insurance Services, Inc. (“Prime Holdings”) announced that its subsidiary, Prime Insurance Company (“Prime”), received approval to...

Council of Lloyd’s Confirms Member Appointments

Feb 7 2007 //

Electronic Trading/Processing Surges at Lloyd’s

Feb 5 2007 // “A quarter of all premium transactions in the London market are expected to be handled electronically by the end of the month,” said a recent bulletin on the Lloyd’s web site (www.llloyds.com). The...

Axiom Specialty Offers New E&S Market in Calif.

Feb 5 2007 // Axiom Specialty Insurance Services based in Victorville, Calif., has a new E&S market for small and medium commercial package available in California. The market will enable the company to offer property, general...