Latest Underwriting Headlines
All the headlines from our Underwriting Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Insurers & Contractors Trying to Nail DownProper Coverage
Jun 10 2002 // If you’re placing coverage for contractors, there are three factors that determine what obstacles you will encounter: location, location, location. The real question is whether it will stay that way or whether...
Insurers & Contractors Trying to Nail Down Proper Coverage
Jun 10 2002 // If you’re placing coverage for a client who is a contractor, there are three factors that determine what obstacles you will encounter: location, location, location. The real question, however, is whether it will stay...
ProgramBusiness.com rolls Out ‘Trading Floor’ for Retailers, Wholesalers, Underwriters
Jun 7 2002 // ProgramBusiness.com, a portal for retailers, wholesalers, MGAs and carriers, has opened ProgramBusiness.com Trading Floor, where retailers and wholesalers can post single accounts and books of business to be viewed by...
AscendantOne Releases RiskFocus
Jun 5 2002 // AscendantOne, Inc. has made available RiskFocus, a unified, comprehensive underwriting/rules engine for automated underwriting and real time risk decision support across all personal and commercial lines of property &...
Hub International Finalizes Sale of Underwriting Units
Jun 3 2002 // Hub International Limited has completed the previously announced sale of its underwriting subsidiaries, Old Lyme Insurance Company of Rhode Island, Inc. and Old Lyme Insurance Company, Ltd. (Old Lyme) to Fairfax, Inc....
Camps Can Be Overnight Success For Experienced Insurers
May 27 2002 // By and large, camp insurance is following most commercial insurance in that it is more expensive,” according to Ron Norton, a sales executive with Indiana-based K&K Insurance. While prices generally have been on...
Camps Can Be Overnight Success for Experienced Insurers
May 27 2002 // By and large, camp insurance is following most commercial insurance in that it is more expensive,” according to Ron Norton, a sales executive with Indiana-based K&K Insurance. While prices generally have been on...
Camps Can Be Overnight Success for Experienced Insurers
May 27 2002 // By and large, camp insurance is following most commercial insurance in that it is more expensive,” according to Ron Norton, a sales executive with Indiana-based K&K Insurance. While prices generally have been on...
St. Paul Re Names Michael D. Price Chief Underwriting Officer; Will Join Platinum
May 21 2002 // The St. Paul Companies announced that Michael D. Price, 35, has been appointed chief underwriting officer at St. Paul Re, the group’s reinsurance operation, and eventually will hold the same post at Platinum...
ISO’s New Auto Loss-History Database Offers Insurers Comprehensive Information for Assessing Auto Po
May 17 2002 // Insurance Services Office, Inc. (ISO) has launched its new Automobile-Property Loss Underwriting Service (A-PLUSTM) database to provide insurers, brokers and agents comprehensive automobile loss information, so they can...
IDP Introduces Underwriting System at June Show
May 15 2002 // A new underwriting system providing users with production efficiencies, advanced rules enforcement, systems control and graphic reporting capabilities, will be unveiled by Insurance Data Processing (IDP) at IASA 2002,...
The St. Paul Companies Unveils New Underwriting Operation for Large, National Property Accounts
May 14 2002 // The St. Paul Companies has formed a new underwriting operation that will target large national and regional property risks in the U.S. The new operation, Property Solutions, will offer a full range of property insurance...
Insurance Industry Posts Strong Q1 Gains HOW REAL ARE THEY’
May 13 2002 // After suffering its first ever net loss in 2001,an extraordinary and dismal year by anyone’s reckoning, the property/casualty industry finally received some good news as earnings reports for the first quarter of 2002...
XML Provides the Missing Link for SEMCI
May 13 2002 // Agents have faced the problem ever since insurance companies first introduced applications. Each company had its own form, so the agent who wanted to submit the same account to several underwriters had to write the same...
Insurance Industry Posts Strong Q1 Gains
May 13 2002 // After suffering its first ever net loss in 2001, an extraordinary and dismal year by anyone’s reckoning, the property/casualty industry finally received some good news as earnings reports for the first quarter of...
XML Provides the Missing Link for SEMCI
May 13 2002 // Agents have faced the problem ever since insurance companies first introduced applications. Each company had its own form, so the agent who wanted to submit the same account to several underwriters had to write the same...
Meadowbrook Reports Improved Underwriting Results in 1stQ
May 9 2002 // Citing improved results in its specialty underwriting operations and continued profitability in its agency and fee-based business, alternative risk management specialist Meadowbrook Insurance Group Inc. of Southfield,...
Acceptance Insurance Suffered 1stQ Losses
May 8 2002 // Iowa-based Acceptance Insurance Companies Inc., an insurance holding company providing agricultural risk management products and services throughout the U.S., announced a net after-tax loss of $4.3 million, or $0.30 per...
News Analysis: Commentary on Full Year 2001
Apr 29 2002 // The property/casualty insurance industry reported a statutory rate of return of negative 2.7 percent in 2001, down from 6.5 percent return for the year 2000. The results were released by the Insurance Services Office, Inc....
Giving Credit Where Credit is Due
Apr 29 2002 // To some it is the greatest thing since sliced bread, but others see it as the most flagrant abuse the insurance industry has every heaped upon the consumer. Insurance companies, consumer advocates and regulators just...
