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U.K.’s Cox Increases WTC Loss Estimates
Jan 24 2002 // Cox Insurance, a leading Lloyd’s underwriter and retail insurer, announced that additional claims from the WTC disaster have raised its loss estimates from £67 million ($96.5 million) to between £85...
Survey Ranks over Half of All State Tort Systems as Bad for Business
Jan 24 2002 // A survey released this week by the United States Chamber of Commerce assessing the fairness of liability systems for all 50 states found that 57 percent of corporate general counsels and senior litigators rank...
S&P Sees Stable Belgian Insurance Market in 2002
Jan 22 2002 // Standard & Poor’s has issued a report on the Belgian insurance market which concludes that the basic outlook for the year 2002 is stable, and that the majority of Belgian insurers’ financial strength...
Credit Scoring May Come Up in Olympics-Disrupted Utah 2002 Legislative Session
Jan 21 2002 // According to the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII), although the credit-scoring issue is lurking in the background, few bills of major insurer interest are definitely set yet for the Utah legislative...
Conning and Co. Reports P/C Insurer Reserves Inadequate to Cover Rising Cost of Claims
Jan 18 2002 // According to a Business Wire report, insurers will have to strengthen their loss reserves in order to be able to meet future claims, as stated in a new Conning & Company study. Though property-casualty rates have been...
Commercial Insurance Market Index Documents Signs of Market Distress
Jan 17 2002 // According to PR Newswire, the insurance industry is showing the first signs of distress following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, with major commercial property/casualty premiums uniformly on the upswing and confusion in...
P/C Trends Gain Momentum after U.S. Attacks
Jan 16 2002 // According to A.M. Best Co., the unprecedented events of Sept. 11 have forever changed the way the insurance industry defines risk as both property and liability lines have been exposed to catastrophic risks that cannot be...
Report Reinsurance Rate Rise Reduced
Jan 14 2002 // A recent survey by Reuters News Service indicates that the expected strong surge in reinsurance premiums for property catastrophe coverage may be a good deal less than originally anticipated. Although the market remains...
To Sell or Not to Sell: Bank-Owned Insurance Agencies My Be Wave of the Future
Jan 14 2002 // As far back as anyone now in the insurance business can remember, agents were fighting against allowing banks to sell insurance. That changed in 1996 when the U.S. Supreme Court decided that national banks selling...
AGENT WEBSITE SURVEY
Jan 14 2002 // The Great American Insurance Group established access on its website to a survey developed by The ACORD User Groups Information Exchange (AUGIE). AUGIE announced in November 2001 that it had been working with insurance...
To Sell or Not to Sell,Bank-Owned Insurance Agencies May Be Wave of the Future
Jan 14 2002 // As far back as anyone now in the insurance business can remember, agents were fighting against allowing banks to sell insurance. That changed in 1996 when the U.S. Supreme Court decided that national banks selling...
Washington State Worksites Continued Safety Trend in 2000
Jan 11 2002 // Continuing a trend begun almost 10 years ago, Washington workers suffered slightly fewer injuries and illnesses in 2000 than they did the previous year, according to survey results released by the Washington Department of...
Insurers See Mixed Results for New Technology Investments, Survey Says
Jan 8 2002 // According to a just-released Tillinghast-Towers Perrin survey, insurers using traditional business measures are discovering spotty evidence of success for their new technology investments. Yet, even in the aftermath of the...
Agents to Help Shape Future Automation and
Jan 4 2002 // The ACORD — User Groups Information Exchange (AUGIE) has launched its Agents’ Survey, a collaborative industry effort to determine what agents want out of their automation system and company partners...
Commercial Property Owners Face Large Insurance Premium Increases in 2002
Jan 4 2002 // Commercial property owners throughout the nation can expect their insurance premiums to make major leaps this year due to the repercussions of the Sept. 11 attacks rippling through the insurance industry, according to...
IRMI Supports Penn. Lawyers; Insurers to Blame for Malpractice Cost Rise
Jan 3 2002 // The International Risk Management Institute (IRMI) has issued a statement supporting the contentions of the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association(PaTLA) that the insurance industry’s own business practices are...
Australian Brush Fire Loss Estimates Rise
Jan 3 2002 // As more than a 100 individual fires continued to rage unchecked around Sydney and other parts of the Australian State of New South Wales, more homes and buildings have been destroyed, Australian insurers estimate that...
Australian Fires Still Unchecked, Losses Rise
Dec 31 2001 // The brush fires raging near Sydney, Australia’s largest city, (See IJ Website, Dec. 27) continued to burn out of control over the weekend, as milder weather, which was helping the 15,000 firefighters control the...
Sales and Acquisitions in French Insurance Market
Dec 27 2001 // A flurry of year end transactions is changing the face of the French insurance market. The MMA-MAAF Group has reportedly agreed to acquire the French units of Swiss based Winterthur Group. CGU Courtage, the commercial...
ABA Sets Up Task Force on Insurance and Terrorism Claims
Dec 21 2001 // The American Bar Association announced the creation of a Task Force on Insurance and Terrorism Claims to address insurance issues arising out of the terrorists attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The...
