Latest Property Casualty Headlines
All the headlines from our Property Casualty Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Hartville to Purchase P/C Insurer
Feb 3 2004 // North Canton, Ohio-based pet insurer Hartville Group Inc. announced today that it has signed a letter option agreement to purchase a property/casualty insurance company. This is an exclusive option for Hartville to...
Crawford Notes Q4 2003 Financial Numbers
Feb 3 2004 // Atlanta-based Crawford & Company announced its financial results for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, 2003. Fourth quarter 2003 revenues before reimbursements totaled $175.1 million compared with $173.7 million in...
Poe Financial Group Announces New President and CEO
Feb 2 2004 // Poe Financial Group announced the promotion of their Executive Vice President, James E. Wurdeman, to President and Chief Executive Officer. William F. Poe, Sr., the current CEO, will remain Chairman of the Florida-based...
Auto Insurance, Workers’ Comp Emerge Again as Top Leading Legal Issue Trends
Jan 30 2004 // Workers’ compensation and automobile insurance laws accounted for nearly 40 percent of the new property/casualty-related statutes enacted by state legislatures last year, according to the fifth annual analysis of...
ISO Acquires Quality Planning Corporation
Jan 30 2004 // Insurance Services Office Inc. (ISO) has acquired Quality Planning Corporation (QPC), a San Francisco-based provider of analytic methods for helping auto insurance companies achieve greater rating integrity. Terms were not...
Notice on N.Y P/C License Updates
Jan 29 2004 // A message from the New York State Insurance Department, as relayed by the Professional Insurance Agents of New York, Inc., reminds all of the state’s individual P/C agents that the license renewal process is...
Largest U.S. City and Home to Thousands of Fallen Heroes
Jan 26 2004 // The United States Census Bureau’s Census 2000 estimated the population of the State of New York at 18,976,457. Approximately 79 percent of the adult residents had graduated from high school and about 27 percent had...
Georgia is More than Peaches and Peanuts
Jan 26 2004 // The U.S. Census Bureau’s 2000 census estimated the population of the State of Georgia at 8.2 million. About 79 percent of the adult residents had graduated from high school and about 24 percent had earned a...
Tennessee’s P/C Market Mirrors Challenges Other States Face
Jan 26 2004 // Paula Flowers, the commissioner of Tennessee’s Department of Commerce and Insurance, recently set aside some time to talk with Insurance Journal Southeast regarding some of the industry issues impacting the Volunteer...
Members Approve Trade Association Merger; New Group Known as PCI
Jan 26 2004 // Members of the Alliance of American Insurers and the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) finalized the merger of the trade groups forming a new association to be known as Property Casualty Insurers...
Ohio P/C Market Should Keep Pace With Countrywide Patterns
Jan 26 2004 // The U.S. Census Bureau’s 2000 census estimated Ohio’s population at 11.4 million. About 83 percent of the adult residents had graduated from high school and about 21 percent had earned a bachelor’s degree...
Tillinghast Says More Consolidation in 2004
Jan 26 2004 // The insurance industry is at a critical juncture, with issues surrounding consolidation, pricing, legislative reforms and capital concerns shaping the market for 2004, according to year-end industry predictions from...
Members Approve Association Merger; New Group Opens Doors as PCI
Jan 26 2004 // Members of the Alliance of American Insurers and the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) finalized the merger of the trade groups forming a new association to be known as the Property Casualty Insurers...
Terms of Credit History Use Still Being Negotiated
Jan 26 2004 // The Texas Department of Insurance held a public hearing Jan. 7, 2004 to consider a proposal that would cap the amount by which insurance companies could increase or decrease rates in personal lines insurance because of an...
Members Approve Association Merger; New Group Opens Doors as PCI
Jan 26 2004 // Members of the Alliance of American Insurers and the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) finalized the merger of the trade groups forming a new association to be known as the Property Casualty Insurers...
Beyond the Bayou and Mardi Gras
Jan 26 2004 // The United States Census Bureau’s Census 2000 estimated the population of the State of Louisiana at 4,468,976. Approximately 75 percent of the adult residents had graduated from high school and about 19 percent had...
Texas P/C and Lloyd’s Premium – 2002
Jan 26 2004 // The Texas Department of Insurance submitted its 128th Annual Report to the Texas Governor and Legislature in November 2003. The information provided in the tables below are taken from that report. The first shows premium...
I.I.I. Survey Reports Industry Leaders Expect Improved Profits in 2004
Jan 26 2004 // Leaders of the property/casualty insurance industry expect an improvement in profitability for 2004 compared with last year, according to a survey conducted by the Insurance Information Institute (I.I.I.) at its eighth...
More than the Grand Canyon and Copper
Jan 26 2004 // The United States Census Bureau’s Census 2000 estimated the population of the State of Arizona at 5,130,632. Approximately 80 percent of the adult residents had graduated from high school and about 24 percent had...
E&S Foresight and Good Management Ease Hard Market Pains
Jan 26 2004 // As you have no doubt heard by now, this hard market is not just longer; it is fundamentally different. It is by all reports the most moderate in memory, characterized by fewer and less dramatic disruptions of normal market...
