Crop Insurers Could Face First Overall Loss in 10 Years: Moody’s August 23, 2012 Record-setting droughts in the U.S. Midwest throughout 2012 are likely to result in substantial gross insured losses for crop insurers...
2 Hurt by Text-Messaging Driver in N.J. Settle Lawsuit August 23, 2012 A couple who each lost a leg when their motorcycle was struck by a teenager who was driving and texting...
USI to Acquire TD Bank’s U.S. Insurance Subsidiary August 23, 2012 By Young Ha USI Insurance Services, a brokerage and financial service firm based in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., has agreed to acquire TD Insurance...
Allstate Names Gupta as Chief Marketing Officer August 23, 2012 Personal lines insurer Allstate has named Ally Financial’s Sanjay Gupta to its senior leadership team as executive vice president and...
CPCU Society’s Brown to Also Lead Griffith Foundation August 23, 2012 The Griffith Insurance Education Foundation has named Kevin H. Brown as its executive director. The organization said that this new...
Tampa, Host of Republican Convention, Prepares for Possible Hurricane Isaac August 23, 2012 By Curt Anderson Tropical Storm Isaac is posing a potential threat to next week’s Republican National Convention in Florida, which culminates in the...
Florida Keys’ Citizens Look to Lower Islands’ Risk Profile, Rates August 23, 2012 By Michael Adams Frustrated by rising premiums, reduced coverage and a single market, citizens and officials in the Florida Keys are hoping to...
Fitch Notes Reinsurers More Risk-Focused For More Asian Catastrophes August 23, 2012 Fitch Ratings has issued a statement which points out that the “spate of Asia-Pacific catastrophes in the past two years...
U.S. Exports Seen at Risk as Russia Enters WTO August 23, 2012 By Doug Palmer U.S. agricultural, aircraft and other exports to Russia could suffer unless Congress passes legislation soon recognizing the former Cold War...
UPDATE: TS Isaac on Track to Hit Florida; Strengthening Expected August 23, 2012 The most recent update from the National Hurricane Center in Miami (5:00 a.m. AST) located the center of tropical storm...