Insurance Rates Unlikely to Rise a Lot Even If Hurricane Season is Above Normal: Fitch June 2, 2016 By Susanne Sclafane Hurricane forecasters may be split on whether the 2016 Atlantic hurricane season will be above average or normal, but even...
Atlantic Coast Should Expect Normal Hurricane Season, Says Colorado State June 2, 2016 By Brian K. Sullivan The Atlantic should produce a near-normal 12 storms during the six-month hurricane season that officially begins Wednesday, while the U.S....
QBE North America CFO Dziadzio to Join Assurant June 2, 2016 Assurant Inc. announced the appointment of Richard S. Dziadzio to the role of chief financial officer and treasurer. Dziadzio joins...
Erie Insurance Names NeCastro to Succeed Cavanaugh as Next CEO June 1, 2016 Erie Indemnity Co., the managing company for Erie Insurance, has named Timothy G. NeCastro as Erie Insurance’s president and CEO-designate...
Munich Re America Taps Stuhl for Broker Relations Senior VP Post June 1, 2016 Joe Stuhl has been named senior vice president and broker executive for Munich Reinsurance America’s (US) reinsurance division. Previously Stuhl...
Reinsurance Rates Continued Stabilization Trend at June Renewal; Florida Down Just 3.1%: JLT June 1, 2016 Reinsurance rate declines continued to slow at the June 1 renewal, reaffirming a trend of gradual price stabilization that first...
Atlantic, Gulf States, Metro Areas Ranked by Homes Exposed to Storm Surge: CoreLogic June 1, 2016 More than 6.8 million homes on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts are in danger of hurricane storm surge damage. The...
Chipotle Serves Up Lessons for Restaurant Brokers and Their Insureds June 1, 2016 By Andrea Wells The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that one-in-six Americans gets sick every year from contaminated food or...
GOES-R Satellite Promises Less Art, More Science in Storm Forecasting June 1, 2016 By Brian K. Sullivan For forecasters trying to better pinpoint the havoc of storms, the future begins next year. That’s when the test phase...
Federal Reserve Plans June 3 Meeting on Insurance Carrier Capital Rules May 31, 2016 The U.S. Federal Reserve will hold an open meeting this coming Friday on proposals, in the works for more than...