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HCC Insurance Holdings Reports Strong Results in Q2 2011

Aug 4 2011 // Houston-based HCC Insurance Holdings Inc. reported that despite widespread catastrophe losses internationally and domestically during the second quarter of 2011 the company’s financial results for both the second...

Meadowbrook Sees Operating Income Decrease, Premium Increase in Q2

Aug 3 2011 // Meadowbrook Insurance Group Inc., based in Southfield, Mich., reported second quarter 2011 net operating income of $8.5 million, compared to $12.6 million for the same period last year. The accident quarter combined ratio...

Marsh Reports Revenue Up 12% in Q2

Aug 3 2011 // Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc. reported 12 percent combined revenue growth for the second quarter, reflecting new business and increased retention in insurance and risk services, along with growth in...

Second Quarter Earnings Reports: PartnerRe

Aug 3 2011 //

State Auto Reports Increase in Net Loss and Premium Written in Q2

Aug 2 2011 // Columbus, Ohio-based State Auto Financial Corp. reported a second quarter 2011 net loss of $201.4 million, or $5.01 per diluted share, versus a net loss of $26.2 million, or $0.66 per diluted share, for the second quarter...

Allstate Reports High Catastrophe Losses, Increased Revenues for Q2

Aug 1 2011 // Allstate Corp. reported improved underlying profitability across all business lines for the second quarter quarter, but those gains were more than offset by $2.3 billion in record second quarter catastrophe...

Ohio Storm Losses Top $500M

Aug 1 2011 // Five storms in Ohio this year have caused an estimated 125,000 claims and losses of $537 million or more, and more than half that came when a series of tornadoes struck in May. The claims and damage estimates are expected...

Insurance Keywords Add Big to Google Profits

Aug 1 2011 // Insurance is adding big bucks to Google’s profitability, according to new research. After Google posted impressive profits for the second quarter 2011, almost $7 billion, Word Stream, a Boston, Mass.-based provider...

Audit Criticizes Administration of Defense Base Insurance Program

Jul 29 2011 // A recent governmental audit of the workers’ compensation insurance program for U.S. government contractors working on Afghanistan reconstruction is highly critical of the program’s administration by the U.S....

Fairfax Financial Profit Rises on Investments

Jul 29 2011 // Fairfax Financial Holdings, which took a 9 percent stake in Bank of Ireland earlier this week, said Thursday its quarterly profit rose from a year earlier due mainly to increases in its stock and bond portfolios. The...

Conn. Museum Audit Reveals Losses of More Than $500,000

Jul 29 2011 // An investigation into employee theft at the Mark Twain House & Museum in Connecticut shows the organization lost more than $500,000. Executive Director Jeff Nichols told The Hartford Courant that an audit revealed...

Aon Q2 Profit Rises 69%

Jul 29 2011 // Insurance broker and risk services firm Aon Corp. reported that profit for the second quarter rose 69 percent to $258 million, as revenues were boosted by its $4.9 billion acquisition of Hewitt Associates last year. Total...

PartnerRe Comments on Financial Impact of Q2 Losses

Jul 28 2011 // Bermuda-based PartnerRe Ltd. has provided information on the net impact of catastrophe-related large losses affecting second quarter 2011 results. Significant losses, related to the tornadoes that struck the U.S. in April...

Validus, Transatlantic Miss Earnings Expectations

Jul 28 2011 // Reinsurer Validus Holdings Ltd missed second-quarter expectations, as underwriting income fell sharply and the company posted losses from the record-setting U.S. tornadoes of April and May. Validus is in the middle of a...

Iowa Receives Federal Waiver for Medical Loss Ratio Implementation

Jul 28 2011 // Iowa has received a waiver allowing an adjustment to some transitional Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) provisions of the federal Affordable Care Act in Iowa. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) granted the waiver...

Texas Agriculture Losses Could Set New Record Amid Drought

Jul 28 2011 // Randy McGee spent $28,000 in one month pumping water onto about 500 acres in West Texas before he decided to give up irrigating 75 acres of corn and focus on other crops that stood a better chance in the drought. He...

Second Quarter Earnings Reports: ACE Limited

Jul 27 2011 //

Post-Loss Assignments of Claims Under Insurance Policies in Louisiana

Jul 27 2011 // In the settlement of lawsuits involving insured claims, it is not uncommon that one condition of the settlement is that the defendant assign his or her claims under all applicable insurance policies to the party that filed...

Ohio’s Losses From 2011 Storms Top $500M

Jul 26 2011 // A handful of major storms that damaged parts of Ohio this year have caused more than a half-billion dollars in insured losses, and that number is expected to increase. Five storms have led to an estimated 125,000 claims...

Steamship Mutual to Launch ‘Piracy Menace’ Loss Prevention DVD

Jul 25 2011 // London-based Steamship Mutual, a leading P&I Club, announced the imminent launch of its latest Loss Prevention DVD entitled “PIRACY – The Menace at Sea”. The Club described the current piracy situation as...