June 22, 2001
Perhaps one of the most expensive hailstorms in North Dakota history struck the south central part of the state on June 9, 2001. The North Dakota Department of Insurance reported an estimated $220 million in property damages from the storms. …
June 22, 2001
London-based Stirling Cooke Brown Insurance Brokers Ltd. (SCBIB), a subsidiary of the Bermuda company, announced it has formed a “Special Risks Division” to design and place “insurance and reinsurance programs involving warranty, residual value and related coverages, primarily on behalf …
June 22, 2001
Newark, California-based Risk Management Solutions has released “two comprehensive data products designed to quantify the risks associated with European windstorms.” The heavy losses, $14.4 billion ($7.8 billion insured), caused by the storms Lothar and Martin at the end of 1999 …
June 22, 2001
PricewaterhouseCoopers, the provisional liquidators appointed last Monday to sort out the financial mess at the U.K.’s Independent Insurance, have so far uncovered £62 million ($87.8 million) worth of insurance claims that were never entered into the company’s accounting systems. The …
June 22, 2001
Medical Advisory Systems, which for 20 years has been one of the leaders in providing offshore medical services through telephone and Internet connections, announced that it would offer a new travel assistance program, “Travelers’ Angel,” for the more than 40 …
June 22, 2001
Ceremonies attended by civic leaders and representatives of Travelers and Citigroup marked the completion of the first building in the revitalization plan for Hartford’s Mortson Street and Putnam Heights. The area, where many buildings have been abandoned or destroyed, is …
June 22, 2001
Robert Friemann, a Huntington Bay accountant, was arrested by FBI agents on charges that he participated in a scheme to defraud Nassau County of “tens of millions of dollars” and was part of a group which pocketed around $2 million …
June 22, 2001
The break in the dam, that started with the announcement by State Farm Indemnity that it planned to leave New Jersey’s auto insurance market, now threatens to become a flood, as yet another state carrier, Newark Insurance Co. wants out …
June 21, 2001
The California Department of Insurance (CDI) announced that Ronald Allen Prasky, 31, owner and operator of Border Pacific Insurance Services, was sentenced in San Diego Superior Court today to seven years in state prison. The sentencing is the result of …
June 21, 2001
California-based InsWeb Corp., an online insurance marketplace, has received the go-ahead from its board of directors to authorize a program to repurchase up to 1 million shares of common stock during the next six months. Hussein Enan, CEO for InsWeb, …