Latest Underwriting Headlines
All the headlines from our Underwriting Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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 ever heaped upon the consumer. Insurance companies, consumer advocates and regulators just cannot...
Calif.-based Zenith Connects to SAIS through Automated Underwriting Interface
Apr 24 2002 // California-based Zenith National Insurance Corp. announced its workers’ compensation subsidiary, Zenith Insurance Company (Zenith), has gone into production with an ACORD 1.0 XML interface with Superior Access...
Liberty International Underwriters Offering Cyber Insurance through Cogentric Alcon Software
Apr 16 2002 // Liberty International Underwriters (LIU), a division of Liberty Mutual Group, has contracted with New-Hampshire based Cogentric to utilize Cogentric’s Alcon Security Systems to help businesses manage cyber risks. LIU...
Retailers, Wholesalers Face ‘Triage’ in Submissions; Relationships Key, ‘Peak Performance’ Attendees
Apr 8 2002 // Brokers, agents and underwriters alike are learning a new way to do business in the hard market, which has meant getting back to basics with more complete and professional submissions as well as better communications...
American Re Appoints New Senior Management Team in Strategic Business Units
Mar 27 2002 // American Re-Insurance Company announced the appointment of a new senior management team to direct the five Strategic Business Units of its U.S. property casualty underwriting operations, as well as the appointment of chief...
What Policyholders Don’t Know Can Hurt Them
Mar 25 2002 // The things businesses do not know about their potential liability for what employees do in cyberspace have the potential to become a serious problem. Recent surveys indicate that many businesses do not realize that simply...
PAULA Financial Subsidiary to Exit Workers’ Comp
Mar 25 2002 // PAULA Financial announced that its underwriting subsidiary, PAULA Insurance Company, will voluntarily cease underwriting workers’ compensation business effective immediately. The decision comes as a result of claims...
The Real Truth About Credit Scoring
Mar 25 2002 // The insurance industry would like the public to believe they have found the holy grail of underwriting: credit scores. Since they now have this vehicle to make sure that only good drivers get good rates and bad ones pay...
Utah Legislature Passes Bill Allowing Credit-Based Scores for Underwriting and Discounts
Mar 11 2002 // Legislative action was completed March 6 on Utah House Bill 110 after the bill was amended to allow insurers to use credit-based insurance scores for initial underwriting in auto insurance. On rates, the bill still allows...
Web Enables Agents to Cut Processing Time for Small Business Accounts
Mar 11 2002 // When the prospect of selling insurance over the Internet first reared its head, one of the initial impressions it left was that it posed a threat to independent insurance agents and brokers. Futurists proclaimed a new...
Web Enables Agents to Cut Processing Time for Small Business Accounts
Mar 11 2002 // When the prospect of selling insurance over the Internet first reared its head, one of the initial impressions it left was that it posed a threat to independent insurance agents and brokers. Futurists proclaimed a new...
NAPSLO Mid-Year Meeting Largest in Association’s History
Mar 11 2002 // The National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices (NAPSLO) held its mid-year meeting Feb. 24-27 in San Antonio, Texas—the largest such meeting in the history of the association. Originally scheduled for last...
GE Coregis Unveils New Underwriting Structure
Mar 7 2002 // GE ERC Commercial Insurance announced two additions at Chicago-based Coregis Insurance Company to enhance service to its public entity customers. Lynn Boyle and Jason Mostofsky have been appointed as Underwriting Leaders,...
W.R. Berkley Corp. Names Appointments to Berkley Capital Underwriters
Mar 4 2002 // W. R. Berkley Corporation announced the appointments of Richard Agatstein and Joan E. Kapfer, each to the office of senior vice president of Berkley Capital Underwriters, LLC, a recently formed specialty reinsurance...
PAULA Financial Subsidiary to Exit Workers’ Comp
Mar 4 2002 // PAULA Financial announced that its underwriting subsidiary, PAULA Insurance Company, will voluntarily cease underwriting workers’ compensation business effective immediately. This decision comes as a result of claims...
Hard DnO Market Tests Relationships of Underwriters, Brokers and Insureds
Feb 28 2002 // The hardening market for Directors and Officers liability coverage is forcing brokers and their clients to accept higher rates, less coverage and larger retentions, panelists told a recent PLUS D&O Symposium. These...
Analysts and CEOs See Eye-to-Eye at P/C Joint Industry Forum
Feb 25 2002 // Analysts and insurance company CEOs who recently addressed the Property/Casualty Insurance Joint Industry Forum in New York City presented remarkably consistent predictions about the future of the insurance industry in the...
Analysts and CEOs See Eye-to-Eye at P/C Joint Industry Forum
Feb 25 2002 // Analysts and insurance company CEOs who recently addressed the Property/Casualty Insurance Joint Industry Forum in New York City presented remarkably consistent predictions about the future of the insurance industry in the...
The Ocean Marine Market: A Unique Animal
Feb 25 2002 // Like life itself, insurance began in the ocean, eventually spawning like the varius land-based descendents we’ve come to know. While those terrestrial variants-auto, homeowners, commercial liability, among others-now...
The St. Paul Cos. Names Kae Lovaas Senior VP
Feb 21 2002 // The St. Paul Companies announced that Kae Lovaas, 46, has been named senior vice president in charge of operations for the company’s U.S. Insurance Operations. Lovaas will report to Marita Zuraitis, executive vice...
