A.M. Best Co. upgraded the financial strength ratings to “A” (excellent) from “B” (fair) of Iowa Mutual Insurance Company and Iowa American Insurance Company both of De Witt, Iowa. The ratings have been removed from under review. The rating outlook …
A.M. Best Co. affirmed the financial strength rating of “A-” (excellent) of the subsidiaries of Ohio Casualty Group based in Cincinnati, Ohio. The affirmation is based on the group’s supportive capitalization, diversified product offerings and geographic spread of risk, as …
A.M. Best Co. affirmed the financial strength rating of “A” (excellent) of Unitrin Property and Casualty Insurance Group, based in Dallas, Texas, and revised the rating outlook to negative from stable. The rating reflects Unitrin’s adequate capitalization for the current …
San Diego-based Wells Publishing Inc., publisher of the Insurance Journal (IJ) magazine and Online Daily Newsletter, has merged with the InsuranceTimes, a Boston-based insurance industry publication for the northeastern U.S. InsuranceTimes will be known as Insurance Journal East, one of …
In this inaugural column, we’ll explore methods of putting your book of business to work for you. Your accounts, sitting around aimlessly in filing cabinets and on your hard drives, aren’t helping you to generate new revenue. The push begins …
The Insurance Journal conducted a month-long readers’ poll to determine who’s who in the insurance world. Ballots were cast to name the most influential on the contemporary insurance scene. While the leader of our poll turned out to be the …
You know you’re onto a story when anyone or anything outscores Maurice Greenberg in a contest for “most influential” in today’s insurance business. The Big I’s Virtual University and its director, Bill Wilson, did just that in a recent readers’ …
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) conducted its final meeting of the year on Dec. 6-9 in Anaheim, Calif. While the conference agenda had its fill of typical committee meeting topics—workers’ compensation, credit scoring, antifraud and insolvency, to name …
Insurance Journal sat down with incoming President Ernst Csiszar, South Carolina’s Insurance Commissioner, at the National Association of Insurance Commissioner’s Winter Meeting in Anaheim, Calif. Below are excerpts from that interview. The full video interview can be viewed on Insurance …
Technology developments in the past few years have delivered cost and time savings to virtually every facet of the insurance business. But in few areas have the benefits been so dramatic as in the producer licensing and appointment arena. This …
