Latest RLI Headlines
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RLI Marine Teams Up with National Equipment Register to Offer Theft Waiver
Dec 18 2007 // Peoria, Ill.-based RLI Marine announced today that it has entered into an agreement with National Equipment Register (NER) to help RLI clients reduce the expense associated with construction equipment theft. RLI...
RLI Names Flynn Vice President, Miscellaneous Professional Liability
Oct 24 2007 // Peoria, Ill.-based RLI Corp. recently announced the addition of Brian Flynn as vice president, Miscellaneous Professional Liability (MPL) for its Executive Products Group (EPG). Flynn will be responsible for the...
Ill. RLI Increases Dividend, Renews Stock Repurchase Program
May 4 2007 // RLI’s board of directors has declared a second quarter cash dividend of $0.22 per share, reflecting a two-cent, or 10 percent increase over the prior quarter’s dividend, a company statement said. The dividend,...
Ind. Leisure/Sports Partners with RLI’s Target Market Specialists
Mar 30 2007 // Ind.-based Leisure/Sports Specialists, LLC (LSS), a privately held underwriting organization that distributes specialty sports and leisure insurance products through retail brokers, recently announced that it has...
People and Places
Sep 25 2006 // Schaumburg, Ill.-based Zurich Insurance recently promoted John LaGrassa to senior vice president and director of ceded reinsurance. In his new position, LaGrassa will be responsible for all of Zurich’s ceded...
RLI Names New Vice President, Home Office Underwriting
Sep 13 2006 // Peoria, Ill.-based RLI Corp. announced it has hired Andrew McCray as the company’s new vice president, home office underwriting. McCray will report to RLI Insurance Co. President & COO Michael J. Stone....
Ill. RLI Opens New Property Underwriting Office in Northwest
Jul 24 2006 // Peoria, Ill.-based RLI has opened a new property underwriting office in the Seattle area, according to RLI Vice President, West Coast Property, Kevin McDonough. Based in Lynnwood, Wash., the business provides excess and...
Ill. RLI Appoints New Board Member
Jun 21 2006 // Peoria, Ill.-based RLI Corp. has named Barbara Allen to its board of directors. Allen, the president of Tennis Corporation of America-Professional Services, spent more than 20 years with Quaker Oats Company in a variety of...
RLI Corp. of Ill. Declares 12 Percent Dividend
May 5 2006 // Peoria, Ill.-based RLI Corp.’s board of directors has declared a 2nd quarter cash dividend of $0.19 per share, reflecting a two cent, or 12 percent increase over the prior quarter’s dividend. The dividend,...
RLI Hires Kliethermes as VP, Actuarial Services
May 3 2006 // PEORIA, Ill.-based RLI Corp has hired Craig Kliethermes, FCAS, MAAA, CPCU, as the company’s new vice president, actuarial services. Kliethermes will report to RLI Sr. Vice President, CFO Joseph Dondanville....
RLI Corp. Posts Strong 1st Quarter Results; Hosts Conference Call Today
Apr 18 2006 // Peoria, Ill.-based RLI Corp. reported first quarter net earnings of $25.7 million compared to $29.3 million reported in the same quarter last year. Operating earnings were $22.8 million ($0.86 per share) for the first...
RLI Sets Record Year; Exits Construction Market
Jan 26 2006 // Peoria, Illinois-based RLI Corp. recently reported record 2005 net earnings, while at the same time announcing the company’s decision to exit the construction market. RLI said that net earnings were $107.1 million...
RLI Promotes Denzer, Berberich
Jan 19 2006 // RLI Corp. has promoted Carol Denzer to vice president, chief information officer, and Chad Berberich to assistant vice president, reinsurance and catastrophe management. Denzer, a graduate of St. Cloud State University,...
People & Places
Dec 19 2005 // Dan Carmichael Ohio Casualty Corporation has completed a new five-year agreement with its current president and chief executive officer, Dan R. Carmichael. The prior contract with Carmichael was to expire on Dec. 31, 2005....
Dan Carmichael
Dec 18 2005 // William Granato Brandon Hickey Ohio Casualty Corporation has completed a new five-year agreement with its current president and chief executive officer, Dan R. Carmichael. The prior contract with Carmichael was to expire...
RLI Promotes Davis to VP
Nov 22 2005 // RLI Corp. has promoted Seth Davis to RLI vice president, internal audit, effective Dec. 1. Davis will report administratively to RLI President & CEO Jonathan E. Michael and have a direct reporting relationship to the...
Torts Drive Commercial Auto in Heartland, Elsewhere
Nov 20 2005 // Insurers like writing commercial auto business, and most lines of business, in the Midwestern states because of market stability and a favorable legislative and regulatory climate. But even in this typically stable line of...
RLI Estimates Wilma Costs
Nov 18 2005 // RLI expects to report pre-tax losses, net of reinsurance, from Hurricane Wilma of approximately $11 million, or $0.27 per share. This estimate is based on claim activity to date and projections by the company’s...
RLI Increases Dividend
Nov 17 2005 // RLI Corp. through its board of directors has declared a fourth-quarter cash dividend of $0.17 per share, reflecting a one cent, or 6 percent, increase over the prior quarter’s dividend. The dividend, which is payable...
RLI Names WebWriter as Marine Processor for New Division
Nov 11 2005 // Specialty insurer RLI has selected the WebWriter(TM) Cargo software solution from Insurance Systems Inc. of Toronto for policy processing and certificate issuance in the insurer’s new marine division. Branded...
