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MarketScout Chairman Sees Softening of the Market
Nov 3 2003 // Is the cyclical hard market taking a turn for the soft? According to one expert, that is just what appears to be happening. “The property and casualty insurance market is softening,” Richard Kerr, chairman and...
AAMGA Reflects on Prosperous Year, Plans for the Future
Nov 3 2003 // The American Association of Managing General Agents (AAMGA) will hold its mid-year meeting at the Phoenician Resort & Spa in Scottsdale, Ariz., on Nov. 13-15. At the heart of this year’s meeting will be several...
Premium Financing’s Place in the Hard Market
Nov 3 2003 // Premium financing is an integral part of the insurance process. The premium finance company is the only entity that deals with all the parties involved in an insurance policy. In a marketplace where it is vital that the...
Professional Liability/E&O Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
Nov 3 2003 // Professional liability and errors & omissions (E&O) are two coverages that just aren’t yet seeing the impending softening of the hard market—and are unlikely to anytime soon. These days, the professional...
The Reinsurance World 2003 – Capacity, Profitability and ‘The Cycle’
Nov 3 2003 // A year ago the reinsurance world had an optimistic side most companies had survived their exposures to 9/11 and premiums were rising. A pessimistic side reflected a 25 percent decline in capacity, thus limiting new...
Wooley, Kyle Battle for Louisiana’s Top Insurance Job
Nov 3 2003 // And then there were two. That is the scenario for this month’s runoff election (Nov. 15) in the race to be the next insurance commissioner in Louisiana. The Oct. 4 primaries brought the field of candidates down to...
LaCroix and PLUS to Explore Challenges, Opportunities
Nov 3 2003 // The Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS) International Conference, to be held in Philadelphia Nov. 9 – 11, promises to explore the often conflicting circumstances in the professional liability insurance...
NAII’s Annual Meeting Features Celebrity Speakers, Wheeling and Dealing
Nov 3 2003 // Where do you go to see a best-selling business author, a folksy economist, wisecracking political pundits, a college football star turned ex-Congressman and a bona fide American military hero? The National Association of...
Commentary on First Half 2003 Results
Oct 20 2003 // The property/casualty insurance industry reported a statutory rate of return of 9.7 percent in the first half of 2003, up from a disappointing 1.0 percent in 2002 and the worst-ever negative 2.4 percent recorded in 2001....
Insurance Journal 80th Anniversary
Oct 20 2003 // One-on-One with Mark Wells, Publisher of the Insurance Journal By Charles E. Boyle Despite his still somewhat boyish appearance, Mark Wells has been the publisher of the Insurance Journal for 33 years, a long time in any...
Happy 80th Birthday Insurance Journal
Oct 20 2003 // Not many businesses can make the claim, “we’re 80 years old.” Now Insurance Journal can. It’s hard to believe we started in Los Angeles in 1923 as a life insurance magazine. My family came on the...
Insurance Journal 80th Anniversary
Oct 20 2003 // One-on-One with Mark Wells, Publisher of the Insurance Journal By Charles E. Boyle Despite his still somewhat boyish appearance, Mark Wells has been the publisher of the Insurance Journal for 33 years, a long time in any...
Commentary on First Half 2003 Results
Oct 20 2003 // The property/casualty insurance industry reported a statutory rate of return of 9.7 percent in the first half of 2003, up from a disappointing 1.0 percent in 2002 and the worst-ever negative 2.4 percent recorded in 2001....
Happy 80th Birthday Insurance Journal
Oct 20 2003 // Not many businesses can make the claim, “we’re 80 years old.” Now Insurance Journal can. It’s hard to believe we started in Los Angeles in 1923 as a life insurance magazine. My family came on the...
S&P Reports on Latin American Insurers/Reinsurers
Oct 17 2003 // Standard & Poor’s has issued new reports on the Latin American insurance industry, which concludes that the market, while still in a “developing stage,” has strong growth prospects. As far as the...
MarketScout Chairman Sees Softening of the Market
Oct 7 2003 // Is the cyclical hard market taking a turn for the soft? According to one expert, that is just what appears to be happening. “The property and casualty insurance market is softening. As a result, business owners will...
Apprehensions over Regulation, Capital, Industry Image, Dominate CII Conference
Oct 6 2003 // The industry “needs leaders that will actually lead,” said outgoing president Andy Homer as he closed the 102nd Insurance and Financial Services Conference of the U.K.’s Chartered Insurance Institute...
Riordan, Zaremberg to Keynote IICF Bridge Week Luncheons
Oct 6 2003 // The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation’s (IICF) annual Bridge Week will take place again this year from Oct. 11 – Oct. 19. Highlighting the week will be two separate luncheons, one in northern California,...
Special Coverage: NAPSLO Annual Convention
Oct 6 2003 // The NAPSLO Annual Convention took place Sept. 10-14 in San Diego at the San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina. For more Insurance Journal interviews and special video coverage of the NAPSLO Convention, including an...
Regulation, Capital, Industry Image Dominate CII Conference
Oct 6 2003 // The industry “needs leaders that will actually lead,” said outgoing president Andy Homer as he closed the 102nd Insurance and Financial Services Conference of the U.K.’s Chartered Insurance Institute...
