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Use MyNewMarkets.com to Maximize ROI
Sep 18 2012 // If you are a single, working professional, with no hobbies, feel free to stop reading now. If your time is limited and you want to get the most for your “money”, then buckle up, because this information is for...
Re/insurers Increasingly Less Relevant to Global Economy: XL CEO McGavick
Sep 17 2012 // XL’s CEO Mike McGavick doesn’t mince words when it comes to looking at the big, and not very pretty, picture of the state of the re/insurance industry. Address emerging risks, innovate, create new products and...
Isaac Losses Won’t Strongly Impact P/C Industry in Louisiana
Sep 14 2012 // While insured losses in the United States from Hurricane Isaac likely will fall between $1 billion and $2 billion, according to some risk management experts, the storm’s impact will not severely impact the...
Arthur J. Gallagher CEO: This Rate Environment Unusual but Better
Sep 12 2012 // Speaking at a recent conference, brokerage Arthur J. Gallagher’s CEO J. Patrick Gallagher described how different today’s commercial insurance rate environment feels, even to an industry veteran like himself....
Low Interest Rates: an Ongoing Problem for the Re/insurance Industry
Sep 12 2012 // Swiss Re’s sigma report analyzing the effect on the insurance industry of the continuing low interest rates doesn’t paint a pretty picture. They have been at historic lows for several years. For instance the...
Dodd-Frank Provisions Still Hold Concern for Insurers
Sep 10 2012 // The Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 brought the most significant changes to financial regulation in the United States since the regulatory reform that followed the Great Depression. It represented a significant change in the...
Lessons from Andrew
Sep 10 2012 // Hurricane Andrew hit South Florida with winds topping 160 mph on August 24, 1992, devastating several communities. According to Gary Kerney, of Verisk’s Property Claims Services, the insurance industry had never seen...
Vermont’s Captive Conference
Sep 10 2012 // Vermont is well-known for, among many other things, its leading captive insurance industry — home to more than 900 captives. The state’s captive insurance advocacy group, the Vermont Captive Insurance Association,...
Tapping the High Net Worth Market
Sep 10 2012 // How Agents and Carriers Can Find Gold in Personal Lines Independent agents and their companies have over the years been beaten in the personal lines market by direct response carriers and captive agents. But being down so...
New National Parks’ Insurance Requirements Ignite Controversy
Sep 6 2012 // A National Parks Service (NPS) decision to hike their required insurance liability limits by 1,000 percent has some outfitters and guides, as well as their insurance providers, navigating the halls of Congress. The battle...
Best’s Global Reinsurance Market Review Analyzes Top 50, Capital, Ratings
Sep 5 2012 // A.M. Best has published a review of the international reinsurance market, which analyzes the performance of the largest reinsurers (rated by gross premiums written). Although the figures – based on 2011 – do not...
Russian Insurance Community Works on Implementing ACORD Standards
Aug 31 2012 // Global standards development organization ACORD announced that a coalition of major Russian insurers, including subsidiaries of Allianz and Zurich, have agreed to work together to implement its standards. “When...
Guy Carpenter Report Finds Lloyd’s Seeking to Improve ‘Competitiveness’
Aug 29 2012 // A new report on the Lloyd’s insurance market by Guy Carpenter & Co. finds that “Lloyd’s is looking to improve its global competitiveness despite mounting challenges including low investment returns,...
September 19, 2012 Lunch Discussion: Kidnap, Ransom and Extortion
Aug 29 2012 // San Diego, CA, 08/29/12 – The Insurance Brokers & Agents of San Diego along with the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation of San Diego will be hosting a lunch discussion on September 19, 2012 with guest speaker...
Swiss Re Reports Italian Insurance Market at ‘Crossroads’ of Change
Aug 27 2012 // According to Swiss Re’s latest study – The Italian insurance market: opportunities in the land of the Renaissance – “Italy stands at the crossroads of economic and social change, and therefore offers...
Del. Regulator Says State’s Captive Insurance Industry Growing Rapidly
Aug 24 2012 // Delaware’s insurance commissioner, Karen Weldin Stewart, said this week the state’s captive insurance industry is growing at a fast pace. She also said the insurance department has recently given $250,000 from...
Inc. Magazine Ranks Astonish 267th on its Annual List of America’s Fastest Growing Private Companies
Aug 23 2012 // Warwick, RI, 08/23/12 – Astonish ranked no. 267 on the 2012 Inc. 500|5000 with a three-year sales growth of 1,350%. With the leading insurance digital marketing system in the nation, Astonish has earned this designation...
Hard Market Generates New E&O Challenges for Insurance Agents
Aug 22 2012 // The soft market has made the job of insurance agents very difficult the last few years. Competition has been extremely fierce, and premiums so low that agents have had to fight for business and write more accounts just to...
20 Years Later: Insurance Changes Triggered by Hurricane Andrew
Aug 21 2012 // Hurricane Andrew struck Florida on August 24, 1992, and the tumult it created for the property insurance market in the state has not ceased in the 20 years since, according to the insurance industry. An Insurance...
The End of the Road for Auto Insurance
Aug 20 2012 // Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in Insurance Journal’s Satire Issue, August 20, 2012. The content in this issue is not real and is not to be taken seriously. It’s supposed to be humorous....
