Latest Property Casualty Headlines
All the headlines from our Property Casualty Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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,...
Fitch to Review Ratings
Aug 3 2001 // Over the next few weeks, Fitch plans to study the ratings on the property/casualty insurance and reinsurance companies in its ratings universe which have material U.S. commercial lines exposures, to decide if negative...
The Hartford’s Operating Income Increases 10%
Aug 2 2001 // The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. reported operating income of $262 million for the second quarter of 2001, a 10-percent increase over the same period in 2000. The increase reflects double-digit earnings growth in...
The Hartford Names Ferreira to Top HR Slot for P/C Operations
Jul 25 2001 // The Hartford Financial Services Group has appointed Robert Ferreira senior vice president of human resources for the company’s property-casualty operations. Ferreira previously served as executive vice president of...
INSpire Chairman and CEO Sets Vision in Motion
Jul 23 2001 // When John Pergande took over as chairman and CEO of INSpire Insurance Solutions last fall, he had a clear vision for the company’s mission and he knew what needed to be done to turn the then-faltering company...
Study Says Eight Insurers Command 65 Percent Market Share in Hurricane-Prone States
Jul 23 2001 // A recent study by Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.-based Weiss Ratings Inc. indicated that just eight large property and casualty insurers provide homeowners coverage to residents in hurricane-prone states. Weiss Ratings, a...
AIA Board of Directors Endorses Optional Federal Chartering Plan
Jul 18 2001 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) Board of Directors formally endorsed draft legislation that would allow property/casualty insurance companies to obtain a federal business charter. Although the AIA proposal is...
NAII Gives ‘Thumbs Up’ to ‘HHS’ Privacy Guidance Document
Jul 17 2001 // The National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) gave high marks to the Health and Human Services Administration’s (HHS) first guidance document incorporating clarifications to its regulation on protecting the...
Q1 Results: P/C Industry Premiums Up; Net Income, Surplus Down
Jul 16 2001 // The U.S. property/casualty industry’s net income after taxes dropped 5.4 percent to $5.6 billion in first-quarter 2001 from $5.9 billion in first-quarter 2000, according to Insurance Services Office Inc. (ISO) and...
