P&C Companies News

For Mutuals, SOX Rules Don’t Fit

By Charles M. Chamness
Crucial differences between public and mutual insurers cause the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies to oppose the National Association...

Rearview Mirror

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There are no second acts in American life,” F. Scott Fitzgerald famously noted. True, he never wrote another novel as...

News Briefs

WASH. CLIENTS ELIGIBLE FOR $14M FROM MARSH: More than 15,000 Washington businesses, associations, individuals and other organizations reportedly qualify for...

AIG Downgraded

Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services lowered its long-term counterparty credit and senior debt ratings on American International Group Inc. to...

U.S. commercial insurers earn big

At the midpoint of 2006, many commercial insurers are generating exceptional earnings, according to an article published by Standard &...

News Currents

Cat model reassessments cause rating and capital changes Last fall’s disastrous hurricanes provided some rough times for the catastrophe modeling...