Latest Profit Loss Headlines
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Okla. Storm Losses Reach $40M
Mar 11 2002 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher announced updated estimates for insured losses stemming from ice storms that hit the state Jan. 31-Feb.1. Latest estimates, tabulated by New Jersey-based Property Claims...
American Family Mutual Reports Drop in Net Income
Mar 8 2002 // Citing unusually high storm losses, American Family Mutual Insurance Group of Madison, Wis., reported a 58 percent drop in net income for 2001. According to a COMTEX report, the company announced that net income dropped to...
Insurance Journal Mourns the Loss of a Friend and Co-worker
Mar 6 2002 // Matthew Wells, marketing manager of the Insurance Journal West & Texas, died after a long battle with brain cancer on March 2, 2002. Matt, the son of Mark Wells, publisher of the IJ/West & Texas, was born in...
Nev. Commissioner Says She Can’t Make Insurers Operate at a Loss
Mar 6 2002 // Nevada Insurance Commissioner Alice Molasky-Arman said during a hearing March 4 on the malpractice crisis that she can’t make insurers do business at a loss, according to the Associated Press. Molasky-Arman commented...
AIG Subsidiaries Sue Reinsurer for Sept. 11 Losses
Mar 5 2002 // A group of subsidiaries of American International Group have filed suit in a Manhattan Court against one of AIG’s catastrophe reinsurers, the American National Insurance Co., for purportedly failing to make payment...
French Insurer’s Net Profit Drops by Half in 2001
Mar 5 2002 // According to a report by the Associated Press, French insurer Axa SA’s net profit will decrease to 1.2 billion euros (about $1 billion), more than half in 2001, as quoted by Chairman Henri de Castries in the French...
Insurance Auto Auctions Reports Decreased 4Q Revenues
Mar 5 2002 // Automotive salvage and claims processing services provider, Insurance Auto Auctions Inc., based in Illinois, reported decreased revenues for the fourth quarter 2001, but recorded a $0.6 million operating profit before...
N.Y. Superintendent Details Need for Federal Backstop for Terrorism Losses
Mar 4 2002 // New York Superintendent Gregory V. Serio testified recently before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, detailing the status of the insurance...
MIIX Group Reports $162.8 Million Q4 Loss
Mar 1 2002 // The MIIX Group of Lawrenceville NJ announced a net operating loss for the fourth quarter of 2001 of $162.8 million compared to net operating income in 2000 of $4.2 million for the same period. The group, which specializes...
ING Reports 6.1% Net Profit Rise to $3.764 Billion
Mar 1 2002 // Holland’s ING Group reported that operational net profit rose 6.1 percent to €4.252 billion ($3. 764 billion) in 2001. Operational net profit from insurance operations did even better increasing by 19.7 percent...
State Auto Financial Announces 4Q Losses, Higher Annual Revenues
Mar 1 2002 // Ohio-based State Auto Financial Corporation, a regional property and casualty insurance holding company reported net losses for the fourth quarter of 2001 and increased revenues for the year. The company, which primarily...
Donegal Group Posts Q4 Loss, Decline in Full Year Income
Feb 26 2002 // Donegal Group Inc. of Marietta Pa. reported an operating loss for the fourth quarter of 2001 of $572,172, or $.06 per share on a diluted basis, and operating income of $6,399,099, or $.70 per share on a diluted basis, for...
Swiss Re Reports Renewal Rate Increases, Expects 2001 Loss
Feb 26 2002 // Swiss Re reported that its property/casualty and financial services renewals in January 2002 “saw significant improvements in rates as well as terms and conditions across all lines of business.” The company...
CNA FINANCIAL REPORTS 4Q LOSS
Feb 25 2002 // CNA Financial Corp. reported a fourth-quarter 2001 net loss of $22 million, compared with net income of $193 million for the same quarter in 2000. According to Chairman and CEO Bernard Hengesbaugh, 2001 was a year when the...
The Ocean Marine Market: A Unique Animal
Feb 25 2002 // Like life itself, insurance began in the ocean, eventually spawning like the varius land-based descendents we’ve come to know. While those terrestrial variants-auto, homeowners, commercial liability, among others-now...
Meadowbrook Insurance Group Releases 4Q, Year-End Results
Feb 22 2002 // Michigan-based Meadowbrook Insurance Group Inc., a provider of alternative risk management services to agents, brokers, and insureds, announced its fourth quarter and year end financial results. Revenues increased 33.7...
NYMAGIC Reports Q4 Revenue Gains, Mixed Full Year Results
Feb 20 2002 // NYMAGIC, Inc., an insurance holding company specializing in ocean and inland marine and aircraft coverage, announced that “total revenues for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2001 increased 21% to $39.5 million...
IPC Holdings Reports Q4 Gains, Loss for the Year
Feb 20 2002 // Bermuda-based IPC Holdings followed an emerging industry pattern with its announcement that gross premiums written in the fourth quarter increased 42.2 percent to $7.389 million and operating income grew at the same rate...
W.R. Berkley Corp. Reports 4Q Loss
Feb 18 2002 // W.R. Berkley Corporation reported an operating loss for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, 2001 of $15 million, or 49 cents per share, compared with operating income of $14 million, or 52 cents per share, for the same...
AXA Group Revenues Rise 2.1% to $65.44 Billion
Feb 15 2002 // French-based AXA Group announced that its total consolidated revenues for the year 2001 were € 74.854 Billion ($65.44 billion), a 2.1 percent increase over the group’s 2000 results. Essentially AXA’s gross...
