Latest Property Casualty Headlines

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Employee benefits offer an easy way to expand business with clients

Oct 23 2006 // It’s a problem many brokers face: clients love our property casualty risk management products and services, but have we given them all they need? What else can we do for them? An employee benefits program offers an...

P/C Insurers’ Profitability Drops in First-Half of 2006

Oct 2 2006 // The U.S. property/casualty insurance industry’s net income after taxes fell 9.3 percent to $28.3 billion in first-half 2006 from $31.2 billion in first-half 2005 as investment results deteriorated. Reflecting the...

Brown & Brown Grows Wholesale: Hull Buys DVUA; PRU Acquires Apex

Oct 1 2006 // Continuing in its acquisitions mode, insurance agency Brown & Brown Inc., through its subsidiaries Hull & Co. Inc., and Program Management Services Inc., has acquired the assets of a key wholesaler located in the...

Deputy Streukens Leaving Fla. Insurance Department

Sep 29 2006 // Deputy Commissioner for Property and Casualty Insurance Tom Streukens is leaving the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation to take a position as Operations Director for the Florida Workers’ Compensation Insurance...

Establishing ethics for insurance professionals

Sep 25 2006 // The American Institute for Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriters (AICPCU), the American College and the Society of Financial Service Professionals founded Ethics Awareness Month in 1990. While it is impossible for...

P/C insurers’ performance exceeding Fitch estimates for 2006

Sep 25 2006 // The U.S. property/casualty insurance industry showed continued favorable and improved operating performance in the first half of 2006 and, based on results and barring any unusual events going forward, the industry is...

Establishing ethics for insurance professionals

Sep 25 2006 // The American Institute for Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriters (AICPCU), the American College and the Society of Financial Service Professionals founded Ethics Awareness Month in 1990. While it is impossible for...

P/C insurers’ performance exceeding Fitch estimates for 2006

Sep 25 2006 // The U.S. property/casualty insurance industry showed continued favorable and improved operating performance in the first half of 2006 and, based on results and barring any unusual events going forward, the industry is...

N.J.’s National Atlantic, Commerce Group of Mass. in Talks

Sep 19 2006 // New Jersey property casualty insurer National Atlantic Holdings Company has confirmed that it is engaged in preliminary discussions regarding potential transactions with The Commerce Group, Inc. of Webster, Mass. The...

Report Identifies Major Risks for P/C Insurers

Sep 19 2006 // Casualty Actuarial Society, ERM Institute International, Ltd (ERM-II), and the CAS/SOA Risk Management Section have released the results of a major research project titled “Enterprise Risk Management for...

Insurers Urge Calif. to Drop Proposed Rate of Return Regulations

Sep 13 2006 // Three property/casualty insurance trade associations urged the California Department of Insurance (CDI) to abandon proposed regulations that would radically change how the CDI reviews and approves insurance company rate...

BISYS Acquires JCH Insurance Brokers

Sep 8 2006 // BISYS Commercial Insurance Services, a provider of commercial property and casualty insurance solutions, today announced its acquisition of JCH Environmental Insurance Brokers, the environmental practice of JCH Insurance...

Revenue is King for P/C Insurers, But Bigger Isn’t Better, Study Reports

Sep 6 2006 // A comprehensive study of property and casualty insurance companies in North America, Western Europe and Australia has determined that the top line is more often the bottom line than previously thought. Bain finds that the...

Fitch: P/C Insurers’ Performance Exceeding Estimates for ’06

Sep 6 2006 // The U.S. property/casualty insurance industry showed continued favorable and improved operating performance in the first half of 2006 and, based on first-half results and barring any unusual events going forward, the...

Texas Regulators Announce July 2006 Enforcement Actions

Sep 5 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance recently announced enforcement actions taken by Commissioner Mike Geeslin that became final during July. The actions include 24 license revocations, one license denial and fines and...

The Commissioners

Sep 4 2006 // Indiana Insurance Director Jim Atterholt is focused on bringing more insurance companies to his state. Atterholt said the current Indiana governor has a strong pro-business philosophy and has made “growing insurance...

Establishing ethics for insurance professionals

Sep 4 2006 // The American Institute for Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriters (AICPCU), the American College and the Society of Financial Service Professionals founded Ethics Awareness Month in 1990. While it is impossible for...

Also, Phillip Hill was elected chief financial officer and vice president of operations. Hill has been part of Ogilvy-Hi

Sep 4 2006 // People Ogilvy-Hill Insurance elected Mark Shipp president and CEO. Shipp has been with Ogilvy Hill for 11 years. In addition to his new role as president/CEO he will continue to build new relationships in the field. The...

Establishing ethics for insurance professionals

Sep 4 2006 // The American Institute for Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriters (AICPCU), the American College and the Society of Financial Service Professionals founded Ethics Awareness Month in 1990. While it is impossible for...

Grant Joins SWBC as CEO of Property and Casualty Division

Aug 29 2006 // San Antonio, Texas-based Southwest Business Corporation (SWBC) announced that Nick Grant has joined SWBC as the chief executive officer of the Property and Casualty Division in their San Antonio office. As CEO of the...