When P/C Insurance Carriers Can Cancel: The ‘Underwriting Period’ by State November 21, 2014 By Insurance Journal Academy of Insurance and Christopher J. Boggs Every state extends insurance carriers the right to cancel a newly-written policy during the first days of the policy period....
Honda: Require Car Owners to Comply with Recalls November 21, 2014 By Jeff Green and Jeff Plungis Honda Motor Co. wants regulators to make U.S. motorists comply with carmakers’ recall notices. Amid reports of people killed because...
Blankenship Pleads Not Guilty to Charges Linked to Massey Mine Explosion November 21, 2014 By Jef Feeley and Margaret Cronin Fisk Former Massey Energy chief Donald Blankenship pleaded not guilty to charges linked to the West Virginia mine explosion that killed...
XL Group Adds Fleet Safety Service to Construction Insurance November 21, 2014 As nearly half of all construction fatalities involve a vehicle, XL Group North America Construction has added fleet safety training...
China Re to Underwrite at Lloyd’s, Syndicate to Be Managed by Catlin November 21, 2014 China Reinsurance (Group) Corporation has received approval from Lloyd’s to transform its existing special purpose syndicate into a stand-alone syndicate...
How Carriers Are Handling Property Cat Renewals, Terrorism, Ebola: NAPCO November 21, 2014 Property/catastrophe insurers have been focused on winning new business, which means new customers are seeing bigger price cuts, according to...
Hospitals Improvise on Safety to Treat Ebola Patients November 21, 2014 By David B. Caruso What does it take to Ebola-proof a hospital? Over the past few months, U.S. medical centers have spent millions of...
Successful Brokers Put Clients Front and Center: Aon’s Dominic Christian November 21, 2014 By L.S. Howard The brokerage industry has changed “utterly and fundamentally” over the past 30 years from a risk transfer function to much...
Arizona Joins Wave of Suits in $3 Billion GM Ignition-Switch Fraud November 20, 2014 By Jeff Green and Linda Sandler Arizona became the first state to join the wave of litigation against General Motors Co. over faulty ignition switches, claiming...
North Carolina Approves Workers’ Compensation Rates for 2015 November 20, 2014 North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin said new workers’ compensation rates have been approved as filed and will go into...