Latest Property Casualty Headlines
All the headlines from our Property Casualty Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Institute President Reacts to Full Year 2002 Results
Apr 18 2003 // The property/casualty industry reported a statutory rate of return of 1.0 percent in 2002, up from the worst-ever negative 2.4 percent recorded in 2001. The results were released by the Insurance Services Office, Inc....
P/C Industry’s Surplus Falls Despite Improvement in Net Income After Taxes
Apr 17 2003 // The property/casualty insurance industry’s statutory surplus dropped $4.4 billion to $285.2 billion at year-end 2002 from $289.6 billion at year-end 2001. Surplus declined despite improvement in the industry’s...
Alliance Study Says P/C Guaranty Fund Assessments Hit 15-Year High
Apr 17 2003 // Payments by private insurers to state property/casualty guaranty funds have hit a 15-year high, spurred by increased insolvencies, according to a study by the Alliance of American Insurers. Net assessments paid by...
Midland Co. Reports Record First Quarter 2003 Results
Apr 17 2003 // The Midland Co. reported record results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2003. Net income per share was 56 cents, including 7 cents in realized capital losses. That compares with 44 cents per share in last...
Taking a look at 2002 Results
Apr 17 2003 // The property/casualty insurance industry reported a statutory rate of return of 1.0 percent in 2002, up from the worst-ever negative 2.4 percent recorded in 2001. The results were released by the Insurance Services Office,...
A.M. Best Reports: P/C Premium Growth Solid
Apr 16 2003 // The property/casualty industry continued to report strong growth in net written premiums for both the fourth quarter and full-year 2002 amid robust price increases across all sectors, according to the A.M. Best...
Privacy Regulations Under HIPAA Raise Concerns for P/C Insurers
Apr 15 2003 // While privacy regulations under the Health Insurance Portability and Accessibility Act (HIPAA) do not apply directly to property/casualty insurers, the industry is expecting a significant impact due to health care...
Swiss Re CEO Says Reinsurance Prospects Favorable Despite Current Capital Market Weakness
Apr 10 2003 // Swiss Re’s CEO said Wednesday that with combined ratios steadily improving and growth opportunities continuing to emerge, prospects look positive for the property & casualty reinsurance market. John Coomber...
Property/Casualty Insurance: An Industry in Recovery’
Apr 7 2003 // Following the property/casualty industry’s net loss after taxes in 2001, many analysts predicted 2002 would be the year of recovery. In fact, strong premium growth and sharply lower catastrophe losses did lead to...
Property/Casualty Insurance: An Industry in Recovery’
Apr 7 2003 // Following the property/casualty industry’s net loss after taxes in 2001, many analysts predicted 2002 would be the year of recovery. In fact, strong premium growth and sharply lower catastrophe losses did lead to...
Mercator and IVANS Partner to Deliver Automated P/C Transaction
Apr 4 2003 // Mercator® Software Inc. and IVANS® Inc. announced an alliance to jointly market a new solution, Mercator InsideIVANSP&C(TM), that will speed the processing of business transactions within the property &...
Vesta Group Downgraded; Co. May Divest Some P/C Units
Apr 1 2003 // A.M. Best Co. said it downgraded the financial strength rating to “B” (Fair) from “B+” (Very Good) of the property/casualty affiliates of Birmingham, Ala.-based Vesta Insurance Group. Additionally,...
S&P’s Report Looks at Changes to U.S. P/C Capital Model
Mar 31 2003 // Standard & Poor’s has published an article that explains the various criteria changes it has made to its U.S. property/casualty insurance risk-based capital model. The changes include a deduction of goodwill...
NAMIC Supporting Small Company Tax Inflation-Adjustment Legislation
Mar 31 2003 // Late last week, Senators Christopher Bond, R-Mo., and Tim Johnson, D-S.D., introduced S. 735, “Small Insurance Company Inflation Adjustment Act,” to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify the tax...
Swiss Re Reports $66 Million Net Loss for 2002; to Reduce Dividend Payment
Mar 27 2003 // Swiss Re, the world’s second largest reinsurer, didn’t manage to dodge the bullet as successfully as its German rival (see previous article). The Group announced that it expects to post a net loss of SwF 91...
Allianz Launches its first P/C Operation in China
Mar 26 2003 // Germany’s Allianz announced that it has received final approval from Chinese regulatory authorities to launch its first property and casualty insurance operation in China, to be called Allianz Insurance Company...
ABD Ins. Services Makes Executive Level Changes
Mar 26 2003 // California-based ABD Insurance and Financial Services, a provider of global risk management and employee benefits solutions, announced a series of executive level changes. Dan Francis has been appointed to the newly...
S&P’s Affirms Horace Mann Educator Corp. ‘BBB+’ Rating
Mar 25 2003 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services said today that it affirmed its “BBB+” counterparty credit rating on Illinois-based Horace Mann Educator Corp. based on its strong financial position and the...
S&P Affirms AIG’s ‘AAA’ Ratings
Mar 25 2003 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has affirmed its ‘AAA’ ratings on American International Group Inc. and various AIG operating companies. S&P reaffirmed the increasingly rare...
CIAB Study Says Many Commercial Interests Not Buying Terrorism Coverage
Mar 24 2003 // Insurers are offering terrorism coverage, but many buildings, businesses and other commercial interests across the United States are not buying the insurance because they do not consider themselves targets of terrorism,...
