National News for July 2013
- How Do You Market? Share Your Best Sales & Marketing Tip
- Farmers Launches New Corporate Logo
- Rates Up Moderately in U.S. in Q2 But Down Elsewhere: Marsh
- Fracking Tied to Drinking Water Damage by EPA Regional Official
- U.S. Safety Rule for Oil Trains Delayed for Year
- Transportation Insurer National Interstate Posts Surprise Loss
- Mercedes Most Popular Luxury Car Among U.S. Thieves
- Crop Insurance, High Crop Prices Leading to Eco-Catastrophe: Environmental Group
- Insurers, Customers Were Kept Safe from 2008 Financial Crisis: GAO Report
- Hartford’s Q2 Loss Widens to $190M; P/C Earnings Show Improvement
- BP Sees No Quick Settlement in Oil Spill Case; Latest Cost Estimate at $42.4B
- AIG to Close Down Savings Bank Unit Due to Dodd-Frank Limits
- Dead Farmers Get Millions in Federal Crop Insurance Payouts
- Survey: Healthcare Reform Driving Demand for Provider Excess Insurance
- Ironshore Adds Surety Capacity Through Lexon, Boston Indemnity Group
- Judge Says Bernanke Should Testify in Greenberg’s Suit Against Bailout
- Marsh Names Tobin as CEO, Private Client Services
- Victims in Meningitis Outbreak Cleared to File Product Liability Suits
- Could Halliburton’s Plea Help BP in Oil Spill LIability Battle?
- U.S. Court Rejects Firm’s Challenge to Obamacare Contraception Mandate
- Chubb Q2 Profit Jumps 43% to $579M; Renewal Rates Up in All Business Units
- RenaissanceRe Forms Specialty Reinsurance Agency for U.S. Market
- AAIS Adds Three New Staff Positions
- How Health Law Could Affect Medical Professional Liability
- Senate Bill Gives Federal Reserve Flexibility on Systemically Important Insurers
- Ironshore Names Practice Leaders for Energy, Construction, Personal Lines
- New Safety Recommendations for School Buses Weighed
- Halliburton Pleads Guilty to Destroying Gulf Oil Spill Evidence
- House Crop Insurance Bill on Hold Again Over Food Stamp Cuts
- Safety Board Recommends ‘Talking Vehicles’ Technology in New Models
- New Capital Pushing Cat Reinsurance Prices Down 5-15%: Ace’s Greenberg
- Cruise Lines Agree to Post Ship Crime Statistics
- ProHost USA Launches Data Breach Endorsement for Restaurants
- Prices Up Again in Q2 But Market Hardening May Be Moderating: The Council
- AIR Worldwide Promotes Churney to Chief Operating Officer
- Insurance Journal Co-Sponsors MarshBerry Market & Financial Survey
- Investors See Travelers’ Cuts in Auto as Sign Rate Hikes Have Peaked
- Liberty International Underwriters Names Fusner Senior VP of Primary Casualty
- Lance Armstrong Seeks Dismissal of False Claims Lawsuit
- S&P: ‘Systemically Important’ Designations Could Trigger Restructurings of Global Insurers
- One-Third Fail to Activate Theft Prevention Measures on Their Homes
- W.R. Berkley Q2 Profit Up 6%; Rates Up 6.5%; CEO Comments on Berkshire
- Travelers’ Q2 Profit Climbs 85% to $925M; Auto Unit Layoffs Planned
- Dartmouth, USC Under Investigation for Sexual Misconduct Responses
- House Lawmakers Introduce Patent Reform Bill
- Allied World, APA Launch Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants Program
- ACE Appoints Talbott President of North America Property & Specialty Lines
- Boy Scouts Sues Insurers to Fund Abuse Settlement
- Claim Against Coca-Cola Over Vitaminwater to Proceed; No Damages Allowed
- Hobby Lobby Wins Stay Against Birth Control Mandate
- Toyota Acceleration Case Settlement Gets Final OK
- Lance Surety Launches New Program to Meet FMCSA Bond Increase Requirement
- Judge Denies BP Bid to Halt Oil Spill Claim Payments
- Companies Must Disclose CEO-to-Worker Pay Ratios Under SEC Proposal
- Industry Told TRIA Won’t Be Renewed Until 2014
- Insurers, Republicans Part Ways Over Global Warming
- Berkley Life Sciences Now Lloyd’s Coverholder for U.S. Business
- Number of Hail Damage Insurance Claims Up 84% Since 2010
- Allstate Selling Life Business to London Group
- Administration Says Obamacare to Lower Insurance Premiums More Than Forecast
- The Hanover Expands Healthcare Capabilities
- Kneeland Promoted to Acting General Counsel for Agents Association
- Cauti Named Senior VP of Liberty Mutual’s Construction Practice
- Treasury Secretary Lew Urges Congress Not to Change Dodd-Frank Reforms
- Greenberg Lawyers Say Bernanke Testimony Key to Suit Over AIG Bailout
- BP Wants Gulf Oil Spill Claim Payments to Stop Until Probe Complete
- Georgia’s Ink Underwriting Acquires California’s Pioneer Programs
- Marsh & McLennan Names Gardner Chief Diversity, Inclusion Officer
- Allstate Says Book Value to Rise on Cut in Employees’ Retirement Benefits
- How Casualty Actuaries Help Insurers Manage Nanotech, Other Emerging Risks
- W.R. Berkley Appoints Levine VP, Chief Marketing Officer
- BP Gulf Oil Victims Challenge Economic Damages Claim Settlements
- Obama Administration Under Fire for Delay on Chemical Plant Safety
- Surge in Brain Trauma Among Young Athletes Spurs Call for Action
- ACE Expands Catastrophe Capacity in North America
- England joins Global Special Risks (GSR) as President and CEO
- Reinsurance Brokers Holborn, Lehrke Merge
- Fast-Growing Craft Brewers Slow to Adopt Workplace Safety
- Total Cost of Risk Up As Market Firms: RIMS
- AIG Ex-Chief Greenberg Sues Spitzer for Defamation
- MarketScout Expands Private Client Services, Hires New Executive Leadership
- Some Victims Appeal Medical Benefits in BP Oil Spill Settlement as ‘Unfair’
- House Passes Republican Farm Bill Without Food Stamps
- Bipartisan Senate Megabank Bill Would Split Banking from Insurance, Other Risks
- PSDA Expands Firearm Coverage for Retired Law Enforcement
- Progressive Premium Revenue Climbs, Profit More Than Doubles
- Top 10 U.S. Aircraft Insurers: SNL
- Republicans Press for Delay in Obamacare Individual Mandate
- Walgreen, Blue Cross to Aid in Educating Public on Obamacare
- Spectrum Wholesale Expands RV, Resort Program Nationwide
- Arch Insurance Group, CalSurance Launch Liability Coverage for Bloggers
- AIG, GE Capital Accept Systemically Important Designations
- Chubb Estimates Q2 Catastrophe Losses at $240M
- House May Split Food Stamps from Rest of Farm Bill
- Will Bernanke Testify in Greenberg’s Bailout Lawsuit?
- NFL, Former Players Ordered to Mediation in Concussion Cases
- ACE Construction Practice Launches Healthcare Construction Project Services
- AIG Reported to Be Lead Insurer for Asiana Crash in San Francisco
- Judges Question BP Over Its Objections to Oil Spill Claims Payouts
- NCCI Taps Lumbermen’s Underwriting Alliance Exec as Chief Actuary
- Ironshore Promotes White to Senior VP of U.S. Wholesale Distribution
- Asiana Could Save Millions Under Provision Limiting Passenger Suits in U.S.
- Coastal Lawmakers Seek Delays in Flood Insurance Changes, Rate Hikes
- Commercial Insurance Rates Up 5% Again in June: MarketScout
- Senator Seeks Review of Consumer Bureau Data Collection
- Employers Welcome Delay in Obamacare Mandate; Workers, States Concerned
- Another Obamacare Requirement Delayed
- Tropical Storm Chantal May Form in Atlantic This Week
- Prudential Will Appeal SIFI Designation; AIG, GE Will Not
- Insurers, State Regulators Try to Block Bank-Like Rules by Federal Reserve
- Court Asks Former FBI Director Freeh to Probe BP Claims
- Agri-Groups Urge New House Vote on Farm Bill
- Employer Health Insurance Mandate Delayed Until 2015
- Zurich’s Broker Relationship Leader Moves to Berkshire Hathaway Specialty
- Assurant Finalizes 2013 P/C Reinsurance Program
- AXIS Names Pesce Director for Surety in U.S.
- U.S. Fights Growing Wildfire Threat with Shrinking Budget
- Willis Group Promotes Jones to CEO of North America Unit
- Drugmakers Work on Safer Painkillers as Opioid Abuse Epidemic Rages
- U.S. Property Cat Re Prices Down, Casualty Softening: Willis Re
- Brown & Brown Completes Beecher Carlson Acquisition
- Court Dismisses Class Action Status in Google Digital Books Case for Now
- GEICO Names Roberts President, Chief Operating Officer
- Progressive to License Usage-Based Pricing Tool to USAA
- Holborn Buys Ownership Stake in Stonybrook Capital
- States Brace for Web Barrage When Obamacare Goes Live Oct. 1
- CoreLogic to Buy Marshall & Swift/Boeckh, DataQuick for $661 Million
- Dixon, Feinberg to Head New RAND Catastrophe Research Center
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