November 17, 2010
New Jersey’s largest auto insurer is issuing dividend checks averaging $107 to its policyholders. New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance Company began issuing the checks on Monday. The Ewing-based company says the checks will be mailed through mid-December. The company insures 415,000 …
November 12, 2010
Colorado insurance regulators fielded more than 25,500 inquiries from consumers in the past year, resulting in a total of nearly 5,000 formal grievances. During this period, the investigation of these grievances amounted to more than $12 million being recovered for …
November 10, 2010
Insurers Allstate Corp. and Prudential Financial announced plans to return cash to shareholders Tuesday with a stock buyback plan and dividend increase, respectively. Prudential’s board approved a 64 percent increase in its annual dividend to $1.15 a share. The No. …
November 1, 2010
Hub, Burnham & Co. Chicago-based broker Hub International has acquired Burnham and Company Inc., of New Jersey. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Burnham, based in Englewood Cliffs, has approximately $4 million in annual revenue. It will become part …
October 29, 2010
Allstate Corp. on Wednesday reported that quarterly operating income fell 16 percent, missing analysts’ forecasts, as the largest publicly traded U.S. home and auto insurer lost existing customers and ramped up spending to try to attract new ones. Allstate’s chief …
October 26, 2010
Insurer Nationwide is the least-complained about personal auto insurer in New York’s $10 billion auto insurance market, according to newly released ranking of 167 companies by the state’s Insurance Department. Long Island Insurance Company ranks worst among insurers writing $1 …
October 26, 2010
Insurers are under growing pressure from two fronts, each of which promises to be a key focus in earnings reports the next two weeks — depressed interest rates that could dampen investment income in coming years and tight markets that …
October 20, 2010
Allstate Insurance Co. said it has launched a recruitment campaign to sign on 40 new agency owners in Michigan by the end of 2011. In addition, the insurer said new and existing Michigan Allstate agencies are projected to hire approximately …
October 20, 2010
“2011 will be another challenging year,” said Roger Sellek, the CEO of A.M. Best Europe – Rating Services Limited, at the rating agency’s annual review of the state of Europe’s insurance industry. Speaking to an attentive audience at the Grange …
October 18, 2010
Consumers have been highly satisfied with their auto insurance companies over the past year, and they view Allstate, State Farm and Geico as the most reputable providers, according to a new survey. The survey conducted in August by Colorado-based Market …