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Bickmore Risk Services Names Director of P/C Actuarial Services

Jul 23 2007 // Bickmore Risk Services, a Sacramento, Calif.-based independent risk management consulting firm, has appointed Michael S. Harrington to director, Property and Casualty Actuarial Services. Harrington will coordinate the...

U.S. P/C INSURERS PAY $2.1 BILLION IN CAT LOSSES

Jul 23 2007 // U.S. property/casualty insurers are expected to pay homeowners and businesses an estimated $2.175 billion for second-quarter property losses resulting from a total of six catastrophes in 25 states — tying the record...

People

Jul 23 2007 // The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. has named Thomas M. Marra to the newly created position of president and chief operating officer. Marra, currently a member of the company’s board of directors and president...

P/C industry net income, overall profitability slips

Jul 23 2007 // The U.S. property/casualty insurance industry’s net income after taxes dipped to $15.8 billion in first-quarter 2007 from $16.7 billion in first-quarter 2006 and $17.7 billion in first-quarter 2005, according to...

News Currents

Jul 23 2007 // Indiana insurer for mutual insurers, agents celebrates 20 years The blueprint for the company was originally conceived by an ad hoc task force of senior executive officers from several mutual property/casualty insurance...

People

Jul 23 2007 // The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. has named Thomas M. Marra to the newly created position of president and chief operating officer. Marra, currently a member of the company’s board of directors and president...

Figures

Jul 23 2007 // $2.175 Billion U.S. property/casualty insurers are expected to pay homeowners and businesses an estimated $2.175 billion for second-quarter property losses resulting from six catastrophes in 25 states — tying the...

People

Jul 23 2007 // Richard S. “Dick” Gieger, general counsel of the law firm of Thompson, Coe, Cousins and Irons, was presented the Raymond Mauk Leadership Award on July 12 in Austin, Texas, at the 15th Annual Mid-Year Property...

Premium Growth: Top 25 P/C premium gainers for first quarter 2007

Jul 23 2007 // I am certain that Erik Erikson, Stella Chess and Jane Whitbread were not thinking of the insurance industry when they wrote this but they could have been. The 25 property/casualty insurers with the largest increase in...

News Currents

Jul 23 2007 // P/C industry net income, overall profitability slips The U.S. property/casualty insurance industry’s net income after taxes dipped to $15.8 billion in first-quarter 2007 from $16.7 billion in first-quarter 2006 and...

Commercial P/C Prices Still Dropping, Risk Manager Survey Finds

Jul 17 2007 // Commercial insurance premiums continued to decline during the second quarter of 2007, according to the RIMS Benchmark Survey, a survey of current policy renewal prices as reported by corporate risk managers. RIMS Benchmark...

Wetern National Insurance Named to 2007 “Ward’s 50”

Jul 17 2007 // Western National Insurance Group recently announced that it has been named to the 2007 Ward’s 50 benchmark group of top performing property/casualty companies in the U. S.. The award recognizes Western National for...

Texas Attorney Honored with ICT’s Raymond Mauk Award

Jul 13 2007 // Richard S. “Dick” Geiger, general counsel of the law firm of Thompson, Coe, Cousins and Irons, was presented the Raymond Mauk Leadership Award Thursday, July 12 in Austin, at the 15th Annual Mid-Year Property...

Ark. Reminds Insurers not to Penalize Armed Services Personnel

Jul 13 2007 // The Arkansas Insurance Department issued a directive to property and casualty carriers issuing policies containing “occupancy” requirements in their underwriting standards that could adversely impact insurance...

Born in Crisis, Insurer for Mutual Insurers, Agents Marks 20th Year

Jul 12 2007 // The blueprint for the company was originally conceived by an ad hoc task force of senior executive officers from several mutual property/casualty insurance companies in response to the liability insurance crisis of the...

U.S. P/C Insurers’ Paid $2.1 Billion for 2d Quarter Catastrophes

Jul 10 2007 // U.S. property/casualty insurers are expected to pay homeowners and businesses an estimated $2.175 billion for second-quarter property losses resulting from a total of six catastrophes in 25 states — tying the record for...

CSC Names Fogle to Head Sales to Property and Casualty Industry

Jul 10 2007 // Computer Sciences Corp. based in El Segundo, Calif., announced that Lee Fogle has joined the company as vice president of sales for the property and casualty (P&C) insurance market in the Americas. He reports to Ray...

A.M. Best: P/C Industry Posts 1Q Underwriting Profit

Jul 9 2007 // The U.S. property/casualty industry followed record profits in 2006 with continued favorable trends in first quarter 2007, posting net income after taxes of $16.7 billion. An underwriting gain of $8.0 billion and net...

S&P: Korean P/C Outlook Stable

Jul 5 2007 // “The outlook on rated Korean non-life insurers remains stable,” says a report from Standard & Poor’s Rating Services, “reflecting the expectation that underwriting performance may gradually...

S&P Raises Fondaria-SAI Ratings

Jul 5 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has raised its long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on Italian composite insurance group Fondiaria-SAI SpA and its core subsidiary, Milano...