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NAMIC Comments on Leading Issue Trends Among Year’s New P/C Laws
Dec 3 2001 // New state laws concerning workers’ compensation, automobile insurance, financial and other regulatory requirements account for over half of the property/casualty-related insurance laws enacted by state legislatures...
Longitude Inc. Teams Up with Capital Risk LLC
Nov 30 2001 // Longitude Inc. entered into a strategic relationship with Capital Risk LLC for the development of weather risk management products using Longitude’s Parimutuel Digital Call Auction(TM) (PDCA(TM)) technology. PDCA...
AUGIE Aids in Survey to Determine Needs of Agents
Nov 27 2001 // The ACORD User Groups Information Exchange (AUGIE) has been working with insurance companies, vendors and the national agency management system user groups to develop a comprehensive survey in an effort to determine what...
IIAA Releases 2001 Best Practices Study, Highlights Importance of Technology
Nov 27 2001 // The 2001 Best Practices Study, released recently by the Independent Insurance Agents of America (IIAA), finds that technology is playing an ever-expanding and critical role in the success of Best Practices agencies and...
Negative Outlook for SAFECO
Nov 26 2001 // Following SAFECO’s announcement of loss reserve strengthening, A.M. Best Co. continued to maintain a negative outlook on the property/casualty operations’ financial strength rating of “A.” In...
Liberty NJ Auto Rate Increase Approved, Best Downgrades State Farm Indemnity
Nov 21 2001 // The ongoing battle between New Jersey’s automobile insurers and the State’s politicians and regulators recorded two new developments yesterday with the announcement that Liberty Mutual Fire Co. and its...
IRC Survey Finds Most American Would Use Competitive Auto Repair Parts
Nov 20 2001 // More than half of respondents to the Insurance Research Council’s most recent survey of a cross-section of Americans would be willing to use competitive auto repair parts if they were assured of the parts’...
SCOR Posts Strong 3Q Premium Gains, Up 45%
Nov 19 2001 // SCOR Group, France’s largest reinsurer, posted impressive 45 percent premium income gains for the third quarter to € 3.477 ($3.1 billion). The figures include premiums attributable to the recently acquired SCOR...
Allianz Posts $1.17 Billion Net Profit for 1st Nine Months, Increases WTC Loss Estimates
Nov 15 2001 // Germany’s Allianz Group announced a profitable first nine-months, despite increased estimates of claims from the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, and costs relative to the acquisition of Dresdner...
F.A. Legal Looks for Average Claim Costs to Rise in 2002
Nov 14 2001 // In 2002, the average cost per claim could rise to $30,000 that individual financial professionals pay to defend themselves against litigation, and in some cases it could exceed $100,000, according to Walter Baumgardner, a...
IIAA Looks at Terrorism Bill Vote as Momentum Builder
Nov 13 2001 // A vote by the House Financial Services Committee last week to approve legislation to aid insurance consumers following future terrorist attacks serves as a momentum builder on Capitol Hill, according to Independent...
Arizona Airport Sees Possible Rate Increases
Nov 13 2001 // Unless the government intercedes, Tucson International Airport could face large increases in liability and property insurance rates because of the Sept. 11 attacks. The Associated Press reported the airport could see its...
WTC PROPERTY CLAIMS RISING
Nov 12 2001 // Property insurance claims from the Sept. 11 attacks are worth $16.6 billion and rising, according to the first estimate from the Insurance Services Office Inc.’s Property Claim Services unit. That would make the...
Fire Loss Claim Doesn’t Add Up
Nov 12 2001 // Nestor Alfredo Milon, 54, of Silverlake, surrendered to Los Angeles Superior Court after being charged with one count of insurance fraud by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. Milon, who has been...
WCRI Study Finds Rapid Comp Cost Rise in Mass.
Nov 9 2001 // The Workers Compensation Research Institute, based in Cambridge Massachusetts, reports that a new study shows that workers’ compensation claims costs rose by as much as 10.5 percent from 1997 to 1998, based on...
Property Claims from WTC at $16.6 Billion and Rising
Nov 6 2001 // Property insurance claims from the Sept. 11 attacks are worth $16.6 billion and rising, according to the first estimate from the main U.S. claims tallying service. According to a Reuters report, that would make the...
Industry Pays First $10 Billion of Future Terror Claims in Latest Fed Plan
Nov 5 2001 // The Bush administration and Congressional leaders hammered out a new version of a plan to provide reinsurance assistance to the U.S. insurance industry in the wake of the September 11th terrorist attacks, although...
CNA Surety Corp. Third Quarter Net Income Down From 2000
Oct 31 2001 // Chicago-based CNA Surety Corporation reported net income for the third quarter of $12.0 million, or 28 cents per share, compared to $13.3 million, or 31 cents per share, for the comparable quarter in 2000. Operating...
CONNING PREDICTS RISING COSTS
Oct 29 2001 // Property/casualty insurers are very likely to begin pricing “terrorist attack risk” separately from other coverages, according to a new forecast from Conning & Company. This and a reassessment of what...
SURVEY FINDS INSURERS USING WEB
Oct 29 2001 // Insurance companies are finally hitting their stride in finding practical uses for Internet technologies, according to a recent “Emerging Strategies in Insurance & Technology” survey sponsored by IVANS...
