National News for April 2011
- K&K Insurance to Offer Higher Limits Via E-commerce Websites
- A Third of Large U.S. Firms Show Business Interruption From Japan Disaster
- American Collectors Enhances Collector Vehicle Coverage
- The Future of the Independent Agency (Has Nothing to Do with Age)
- PPIB Launches Medical Director Program
- Markel Programs, Burns & Wilcox Partner to Offer Real Estate E&O Program
- Young Agents Survey Shows Strong Family Ties
- Best Affirms AEGON USA Group’s Ratings
- AIG Files Lawsuit Against Two Money Management Firms
- Study: High Gas Prices Lead to Fewer Auto Accidents
- Towers Watson Names Osean as VP, Property Insurance
- U.S. Regulators Define Swaps, What Falls Under Dodd-Frank
- Peerless Insurance Adds 40-Plus Business Classes to Small Commercial Program
- Gallagher Higher Education, InsureMyTrip Launch Trip Cancellation Program
- Electric Cars Get Top Insurance Safety Rating
- Marsh Agrees: Soft Pricing Persisted Despite Catastrophe Losses in Q1
- Supreme Court Hears Securities Fraud Loss Causation Arguments
- IronPro Introduces Kidnap & Ransom Coverage
- NFIB, EMPLOYERS Expand Work Comp Program to Additional States
- Baudouin Appointed CEO of Aon Global Client Network
- RIMS, Chartis Launch Hall of Fame for Risk Managers
- Overcapacity in P/C Insurance Keeping Commercial Prices Down
- SEC: Mid-Size Firms Should Follow Sarbanes Oxley Internal Control
- Supreme Court Denies Fast Track for Healthcare Law Challenge
- Marsh Launches Dodd-Frank/FDIC Receivership Endorsement
- P/C Premium Growth Not Enough for Market Turnaround: Conning
- High Stakes in Today’s Supreme Court Case on Securities Fraud Suits
- Military’s Medical Malpractice Shield Law Could Face Key Test
- Is Buffett’s Teflon Finally Wearing Off? Annual Meeting Coming Up
- Hartford Steam Boiler Introduces Green Equipment Breakdown Coverage
- The Hartford Introduces Marine Policy For Modern Warehouse Logistics Operations
- Ratings Recap: American Road, DHC, National Lloyds
- Newly Elected Officials Must Learn Hurricane Response: FEMA
- Lawsuits Fly in BP Gulf Oil Spill Blame Game
- Top 10 U.S. Excess/Surplus Insurers
- Travelers Profits Up
- Across Country, 1 in 7 Drivers Uninsured; In Some States, 1 in 4
- Advisory Group AAIS Elects Preferred Mutual’s Taft Chairman
- W.R. Berkley Names Kamford to New Role; Welt as Senior VP
- One Year After BP Oil Spill, Optimism on Gulf Coast
- Feinberg: BP Gulf Claims Fund ‘Working As Intended’
- BP Sues Halliburton for $42 Billion Over Gulf Spill
- BP Sues Rig Owner Transocean and Maker of Blowout Preventer
- Hopkins to Retire from Zurich Executive Posts; Farmers Chairman
- Marsh & McLennan Changes Top Management Team
- America First Expands Small Commercial Appetite to 60 More Business Classes
- Ironshore Environmental Enhances Pollution Program for Education Sector
- The Hanover to Pay $510M for UK Insurer Chaucer
- How P/C Insurance Industry Fared Financially in 2010
- P/C Insurers Keeping an Eye on Congress
- Chartis to Shift Asbestos Liabilities to Berkshire’s National Indemnity
- Treasury Defends Dodd-Frank Reforms; Promises Insurance Expert Soon
- McDonald’s Not Smiling Over Happy Meals Lawsuit
- Berkshire, Buffett Sued Over Sokol’s Trades
- 8 Experts: Happy Birthday Workers’ Compensation – Now What?
- Securities Litigation On Track to Set New Record in 2011: Advisen
- Motorcycle Deaths Decline 2%, But Helmet Use Declining
- Storm Losses Largest in North Carolina and Virginia
- Lockton Launches Risk Management Tool to Address Uninsurable Risks
- Allied World Forms New Inland Marine Division
- Supreme Court Denies Insurance Fraud Inmate’s Bid to Cut Sentence
- Will $1.6 Billion Bank of America Settlement Embolden Others?
- Golden Eagle Expands Small Business BOP Product
- S&P Puts 17 Cat Bonds on CreditWatch/Negative Due to RMS Model Change
- Growth of Clean Tech Industry Delivers New Exposures, Opportunities
- US Nuclear Regulator Monitoring Plant after Tornado
- U.S. Credit Outlook Cut by S&P on Deficit Concerns
- MLR Dramatically Impacting Commissions, Agents Tell Regulators
- President Signs Repeal of Healthcare Law’s 1099 Tax Provision
- Supreme Court Weighs Bid for Fast-Tracking Healthcare Law Challenges
- Austrian Insurance Swindler Seeks Release from U.S. Prison
- Beazley Expands Healthcare Liability Team with Springman
- One Year Later, Gulf States Still Grappling with BP Oil Disaster
- Investors Suing Banks Gain Ammunition with Senate Report
- U.S. Oversight Council Urged to Be More Transparent
- Survey Shows Opportunity for Carriers to Support Agents in Social Media
- Synergy Professional Associates Launches Small Firm Lawyers E&O Program
- U.S. Shuts Down Massive Cyber Theft Ring
- P/C Industry Depends Too Much on Catastrophe Models, Says Pioneer Clark
- Credit Raters Triggered Financial Crisis, Says Senate Report
- Target Markets Announces Program Business Research Project
- Juhas Named to Head AIG Strategic Planning
- Freedom Specialty Insurance Introduces Excess Policy
- Take1 Insurance Launches Coverage for ‘Docu-Soap’ Television Producers
- Auditors Cite Catholic Church’s Lapses in Child Abuse Prevention
- U.S. Hospital Safety Plan Could Save Lives, Dollars: Officials
- How Health Reform Will Affect Workers’ Comp, Liability Insurance
- P/C Insurers Weigh International Expansion for Growth
- A.M. Best Revises Outlook for The Hartford
- Navigators Expands Professional Liability Division
- Chartis Expands Alternative Risk Offering with Rolling Buyouts
- Towers Watson Names Comis, Albert to Reinsurance Brokerage Team
- Gulf Coast Officials Enjoy Spending Spree at BP’s Expense
- Federal Budget Cuts Eliminate Crop Insurance Premium Refunds
- A.M. Best Affirms Ratings of W.R. Berkley Group, Subsidiaries
- Allied World Introduces Small to Mid-Size Company Privacy Coverage
- How Rising Energy Prices Affect P/C Insurance
- 3 Most Common Errors That Lead to Teen Drivers’ Crashes
- Federal Reserve Plans 2 Auctions of AIG Mortgage Securities
- U.S. Pay Czar Allows AIG Flexibility with Pay Packages at AIG
- U.S. Plan Would Restart Mexico Trucking
- Effect of Federal Government Shutdown on Insurance Industry
- Medical Errors 10 Times More Frequent Than Reported, New Research Says
- Insurer Sues Celebrity Heiress Paris Hilton Over Missing Jewels
- Preparing For The Hurdles Ahead
- House Flood Insurance Reform Bill Wins Bipartisan Support
- Allied World U.S. Enhances Management Liability Product for Healthcare Organizations
- Transocean Executives Donating Safety Bonuses to Oil Spill Victims
- Ratings: Madison Mutual, Lyndon Property, Great Northwest, Ocean Harbor
- ‘Above Average’ 2011 Atlantic Hurricane Season Forecast
- Survey Shows Agents Concerned on Perpetuation; Few Take Action
- Reinsurance Rates Rising, But Few Agree Where, How Much
- Commercial Insurance Pricing Cuts Slowed in March
- Report Tallies Economic Costs of Violence to States
- AIG CEO Benmosche Open to Staying at Helm Past 2012
- Senate Sends Repeal of Healthcare Law’s 1099 Tax Provision to Obama
- AIG Busy Investing Its Cash, May Bid on Bonds
- Oil Rig Firm Transocean Awards Safety Bonuses Despite Gulf Tragedy
- U.S. Judge Dismisses Non-U.S. Car Buyers’ Claims Against Toyota
- Starr Aviation Develops Workers’ Compensation Small Business Unit
- Travelers Introduces Crisis Management Expenses Endorsement
- XL Insurance Creates Electronic Data Destruction Coverage for E-Waste Recycling
- K&B Underwriters Enhance, Rebrand Senior Living Program
- Flood Insurance Reform Bill Due This Week
- ‘Old GM’ Carved into 4 Trusts for Claims
- No Raise for AIG Chief Benmosche, Others at Bailed Out Firms
- Technology to Prevent Bus Accidents Exists But Isn’t Implemented
- R-T Specialty Completes Acquisition of American E&S
- New Chartis CEO Hancock: Successor to Benmosche?
- Walking on Water Risky, Even in Big Plastic Balls
- U.S. Traffic Deaths Dropped to New Low in 2010
- GE Unlikely to Face Liability in Japanese Nuclear Crisis
- Special Report: Top 10 Innovative P/C Insurance Products
- Series: Natural laws as they apply to sales
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