Latest Profit Loss Headlines
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Munich Re Announces Provisional 2001 Results, Profits Fall by $1.33 Billion
Mar 25 2002 // Munich Re announced provisional results for the year 2001, which confirmed that even the world’s largest reinsurer wasn’t immune to the huge losses caused by Sept. 11. Munich’s net profit is expected to...
Berkshire Earnings Hit by Sept. 11th
Mar 25 2002 // Berkshire Hathaway’s boss Warren Buffett didn’t become America’s most successful investor, and one of its richest men, by making mistakes, so when General Re suffered a $2.4 billion hit from the WTC...
Fremont General Reports Profit, Studying Sale
Mar 21 2002 // California-based financial services company Fremont General Corp. has reported a fourth-quarter profit, moving from a loss from a year earlier, when it recorded large losses in its workers’ compensation insurance...
PAULA Financial Notes Net Loss
Mar 19 2002 // California-based PAULA Financial announced March 18 a net loss of ($5.53) per share for the year ended Dec. 31, 2001 compared to a net decline of ($3.51) per share for the same period a year ago. Negative underwriting...
Converium Posts $367.4 Million Net Loss for 2001
Mar 18 2002 // Converium Holding Ltd, the Swiss-based reinsurer, formed by the spin-off of Zurich Financial’s reinsurance operations, reported a net after tax loss of $367.4 million for the year 2001, due in large part to the...
ISO Service Offers New Program for Loss Control, Safety Professionals
Mar 18 2002 // Insurance Services Office, Inc.’s (ISO) Engineering and Safety Service (E&STM) unit is offering a new, self-directed ‘distance learning’ program for loss control and safety professionals to study and...
AXA Earnings Fall 47.6% to $1.06 Billion
Mar 15 2002 // France’s AXA Group reported lowered cash earnings of € 1.201 billion ($1.059 billion) for the year 2001, despite a 2 percent rise in gross revenues to € 74.8 billion ($65.97 billion). Like almost everyone...
Catastrophe Losses Set at $34.4 Billion Last Year Says Swiss Re Study
Mar 14 2002 // A sigma study by Swiss Re estimates that more than 33,000 people lost their lives as a result of natural catastrophes and man-made disasters in 2001, and puts the cost to the insurance industry at $34.4 billion. Over half...
Australia’s QBE Posts $13 Million Loss for 2001
Mar 13 2002 // QBE, the Australian insurer, which actually derives over 80 percent of its business from outside the country, ended its 20 year record of increasing profits with the announcement that of a $13 million loss for 2001. Right...
Proposed N.J. Regulation Offers Relief on Excess Profit Rule
Mar 11 2002 // The New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance is proposing a regulation (PRN2002-103) that would change the way insurers calculate profits on personal automobile insurance. New Jersey statutes establish a reasonable...
Zurich Confirms $387 Million Loss in 2001
Mar 11 2002 // Zurich Financial Services confirmed analysts’ fears, and its previous forecast, with today’s announcement that it expects to report a net loss of $387 million for 2001, and will accordingly slash its dividend...
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...
