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Fla. Sen. Bill Nelson Continues to Fly New Missions for Sunshine State
Jul 23 2004 // Bill Nelson Florida Senator As his bio notes growing up as a child, Florida Senator Bill Nelson never imagined that one day he would both catapult into space from a NASA launch site just miles from his grandfather’s...
AIG Unveils Q2 Numbers; Reports Overall Good Quarter
Jul 23 2004 // American International Group Inc. (AIG) reported that its second quarter 2004 net income rose 25.7 percent to a record $2.86 billion or $1.09 per share, compared to $2.28 billion or $0.87 per share in the second quarter of...
Seeking Insurance Coverage, Peru Airline Transfers Ownership to Employees
Jul 22 2004 // Peru’s transportation minister said the country’s largest airline, grounded because of its reputed ties to cocaine trafficking, has transferred ownership to its employees in a bid to obtain an insurance policy...
Quanta US Names Fishman President
Jul 22 2004 // Quanta U.S. Holdings Inc., the holding company for the U.S.-based specialty insurance operations of Quanta Capital Holdings Ltd., announced the appointment of Robert Fishman as president of U.S. insurance. Fishman, will...
ATRA Urges Enactment of Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act
Jul 22 2004 // The American Tort Reform Association (ATRA) is urging enactment of a federal bill that would reportedly remove two of the biggest thorns in the side of the U.S. judicial system – frivolous claims and forum...
Axis Introduces New Commercial Property Capabilities
Jul 21 2004 // Axis U.S. Insurance has announced that its excess and surplus (E&S) property unit is now offering property insurance coverage for U.S.-based lumber, wood products and furniture risks. Jeffrey Berkshire has joined Axis...
State Fraud Laws Need to Be Tougher, Group Says
Jul 20 2004 // More states urgently need to pass targeted laws to bust widespread staged-accident rings and swindlers who sell fake commercial insurance around the U.S., the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud told state lawmakers at the...
LIG Marine Managers Chief Expresses Support for Recreational Marine Employment Act
Jul 20 2004 // Ian Greenway, president of Florida-based LIG Marine Managers, testified as a witness before the House Workforce Protections Subcommittee in support of legislation introduced by Rep. Ric Keller (R-FL)—the Recreational...
Florida Senator Bill Nelson Continues to Fly New Missions
Jul 19 2004 // Flying New Missions Bill Nelson As his bio notes, as a child Florida Senator Bill Nelson never imagined that one day he would both catapult into space from a NASA launch site just miles from his grandfather’s...
People and Places
Jul 19 2004 // Greg Meserole Fort Worth-based Higginbotham & Associates named Greg Meserole and Matt Burns as managing directors of the company’s newly opened office in Austin. Meserole and Burns were most recently senior vice...
DMLR Launches Campaign in South Carolina
Jul 19 2004 // Doctors for Medical Liability Reform (DMLR), a coalition of more than 230,000 medical specialists dedicated to national medical liability reform, launched an aggressive advocacy campaign in the state of South Carolina...
Wildfire Victims Question Industry’s Cost Calculator
Jul 19 2004 // Don Robinson says his Residence Mutual insurance policy pegged the cost of replacing his San Diego home at $233,000. After Southern California’s wildfires destroyed the 40-year-old biologist’s four bedroom...
Fitch Revises Outlook on U.S. Commercial Lines Sector to Stable
Jul 19 2004 // Fitch Ratings has revised its rating outlook for the U.S. commercial lines insurance sector to stable from negative. Fitch had maintained a negative rating outlook on the sector since September 2000. The revised outlook...
China Wakes Up as the World Watches
Jul 19 2004 // This is the first in a series of articles on the Asia insurance marketplace. Part two in this series will focus on India and will appear in a September issue of Insurance Journal. “Let China Sleep, for when she...
Wildfire Victims Question Industry’s Cost Calculator
Jul 12 2004 // Don Robinson says his Residence Mutual insurance policy pegged the cost of replacing his San Diego home at $233,000. After Southern California’s wildfires destroyed the 40-year-old biologist’s four-bedroom...
W. Va. WCC Receives Record Restitution
Jul 8 2004 // The West Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission recently received two checks totaling nearly $320,000 in restitution resulting from recent convictions in U.S. District Court in Charleston. “This is the most...
DMLR Launches Campaign in South Carolina
Jul 7 2004 // Doctors for Medical Liability Reform (DMLR), a coalition of more than 230,000 medical specialists dedicated to national medical liability reform, launched an aggressive advocacy campaign in the state of South Carolina...
Coalition of Doctors Call on Kerry, Edwards to Support Med-Mal Reform
Jul 7 2004 // A coalition of more than 230,000 specialty physicians announced its dismay with John Kerry and John Edwards, two sitting U.S. Senators, who they say repeatedly vote against protecting patients, instead choosing to pander...
Industry At ‘Point Of Inflection,’ Says Standard & Poor’s
Jul 5 2004 // The insurance industry, now teeter-tottering between a hard and a soft market, “has reached a point of inflection,” said Robert Partridge, Standard & Poor’s managing director, at S&P’s...
The New Insurers: This Time, They’ll Do It The Right Way
Jul 5 2004 // ‘Clean Slate’ U.S. P/C Insurers Learn from Sins of Their Predecessors In the summer of 2001, the hard cycle had already arrived for the U.S. property/casualty marketplace. Prices were trending up as experts...
