Latest Property Casualty Headlines
All the headlines from our Property Casualty Topic Page, ordered by recency.
NAIC Speed-to-Market Efforts Hastened by SERFF
Aug 30 2001 // The goal of more efficient state filing systems is becoming a reality. By the end of the year, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) anticipates that 41 states will be accepting product and rate...
S&P Downgrades Acceptance
Aug 27 2001 // S&P took rating actions on Acceptance Insurance Companies Inc. (AICI) and its insurance operating subsidiaries. S&P downgraded American Growers Insurance Co. (AGIC) because of declining earnings and uncertain...
Silver Plume Introduces Sage Reference Tool for Commercial P&C Agents
Aug 22 2001 // Insurance Reference Systems Inc. (Silver Plume), an AMS company, announced the introduction of Sage, a web-based, intelligent research tool that uses an insurance-specific, Internet-style engine to search its library of...
FileNET Announces Acenza Underwriting and Policy Administration for P/C Marketplace
Aug 21 2001 // FileNET Corp., a provider of business process management solutions, announced the availability of Acenza Underwriting and Policy Administration, the latest addition to FileNET’s Acenza for Insurance suite of...
S&P Downgrades Acceptance Insurance Cos.
Aug 20 2001 // Standard & Poor’s took rating actions on Acceptance Insurance Companies Inc. (AICI) and its insurance operating subsidiaries. S&P downgraded American Growers Insurance Co. (AGIC) because of declining...
Rates Surge Last Quarter
Aug 20 2001 // Commercial insurance premium rates surged forward last quarter with double digit increases in the five property/casualty lines, according the Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers 2nd quarter Commercial P/C Market...
Swiss Re, Tokio Marine Conclude $450 Million Cat Swap
Aug 17 2001 // PMA Re announced that it has become the newest member of the International Insurance Council (IIC), a Washington D.C.-based association active in promoting increased trade and investment relations around the...
Sagent Unveils Fire Protection Classification Application
Aug 15 2001 // Sagent Technology Inc., a provider of business intelligence solutions, unveiled its fire protection classification application for property and casualty insurers. According to the company, the system, which utilizes...
Report Says Top Insurers Embracing Web for Agent and Policyholder Communication
Aug 14 2001 // Top U.S. insurers are turning to the web to reduce communication costs with both agents and policyholders, says a new report titled “U.S. Insurance & the Web: An Overview” published by Celent...
Acceptance Insurance Cos. Completes Sale of P/C Businesses To McM Corp.
Aug 14 2001 // Acceptance Insurance Companies Inc. completed the sale of two wholly owned insurance companies to McM Corporation, a Raleigh, N.C.-based insurance holding company and owner of Occidental Fire & Casualty Company of...
P/C Insurance Mass-Marketers to Gather in Scottsdale for IMMA Conference
Aug 14 2001 // Property/casualty insurance mass-marketers with agencies and carriers will address timely industry issues such as marketplace and carrier instability — and survival tools — at the 2001 Annual Conference of the...
Commentary: P/C Cold Calling Can Provide Targeted Leads
Aug 13 2001 // It’s been said that convincing a property/casualty salesperson to adopt a really new idea is somewhat akin to inducing an elephant to make a right-angle turn. However, perhaps the good news is that p/c cold calling...
Commentary: Shares of Insurers Pause After Recent Gains-What Direction Now’
Aug 13 2001 // In the short term, it’s extremely difficult to predict whether a stock will go up or down. The many factors involved are open to widely varied interpretations. Trends in a given sector can be spotted over time, but...
Great American Offers New Stand-Alone Employment Practices Liability
Aug 10 2001 // Great American Insurance Company’s Executive Liability Division announced new Employment Practices Liability coverage within its ExecPro® series of products. According to the company, the stand-alone ExecPro®...
ERIE Selects DWL to Provide Transactional
Aug 8 2001 // DWL Incorporated, a provider of transactional e-solutions, announced Erie Insurance Group has selected its solution. DWL will provide ERIE with industry-specific portals and a transactional CRM application to create a...
Trade Associations React to AIA’s Support of Federal Chartering
Aug 6 2001 // The Alliance of American Insurers, the NAII and the NAMIC are among industry trade associations that have publicly reacted to the American Insurance Association’s (AIA) endorsement of an optional federal chartering...
American Insurance Association Unveils New Brand
Aug 6 2001 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) has unveiled a new brand identity. AIA, an advocacy group for the property and casualty insurance industry, has been in existence for over 130 years — one of the longest...
Commentary: P/C Cold Calling Can Provide Targeted Leads
Aug 6 2001 // It’s been said that convincing a property/casualty salesperson to adopt a really new idea is somewhat akin to inducing an elephant to make a right-angle turn. However, perhaps the good news is that p/c cold calling...
Shares of Insurers Pause After Recent Gains-What Direction Now’
Aug 6 2001 // It’s extremely difficult to predict whether a stock will go up or down-more so in the sort term. Too many factors involved, which are open to widely varied interpretations. Trends in a given sector can be spotted...
The Edge of the Regulatory Thicket
Aug 6 2001 // The American Insurance Association’s support of a draft proposal for an optional federal charter for p/c insurance companies has once more taken the industry to the edge of the regulatory thicket. The AIA position,...
