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Smart Choices, Luck Help U.S. P/C Insurers Stay Stable: S&P
Jun 20 2016 // Good news alert: the U.S. property/casualty insurance sector “has been dealt a good hand” and remains stable due to smart choices and a little bit of luck, Standard & Poor’s said in a new...
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Insurer Breached Contract: Judge
Jun 17 2016 // The Oregon Shakespeare Festival can go to trial or pursue a settlement under a judge’s ruling that an insurer should have covered damage and cancellations related to wildfire smoke. The Mail Tribune reported Judge...
Insurers Ignore FinTech Revolution at Their Long-Term Peril: PwC
Jun 17 2016 // While 90 percent of insurers fear they will lose business to a FinTech start-up, only 43 percent say they have put FinTech at the heart of their corporate strategies, according to report published by PwC. As customers...
Florida Insurer Security First Promotes DeVriese to Chief Administrative Officer
Jun 17 2016 // Florida-based homeowners insurance provider, Security First Insurance Co., has promoted Melissa Burt DeVriese to chief administrative officer. DeVriese will also retain her title of general counsel. With this promotion,...
Pro Global Files Company Application Under R.I.’s New Run-Off Reg
Jun 15 2016 // Pro Global Insurance Solutions plc announced that it has become the first company to file an application for a new domestic insurer in Rhode Island to facilitate insurance business transfers (IBT) under the August 2015...
Zika Virus Could Make Scoring Event Insurance More Difficult
Jun 15 2016 // Fears over the spread of the Zika virus are likely to dampen the Summer Olympics set for Rio de Janeiro in August and other summer events. The virus could also make it more difficult for summer event organizers to find or...
Startup Embroker CEO Miller Pursues ‘Massive Improvement’ Over Disruption in Commercial Insurance Brokerage
Jun 15 2016 // Within venture capital circles, the insurance industry is sexy right now. It seems not a week goes by without another startup being announced, some with niche angles such as peer-to-peer distribution, insurance for...
Insurers Provide Cover for German Banks Stashing Billions of Euros
Jun 14 2016 // Europe’s top insurers are selling protection to German banks that hoard billions of euros of cash in vaults to avoid paying a penalty by parking it at the European Central Bank, company executives told Reuters. The...
Atlas General Insurance Services, LLC Announces Exclusive New Workers’ Compensation Partnership with Falls Lake Insurance Companies
Jun 14 2016 // San Diego, CA, June 14, 2016 – Atlas General Insurance Services, LLC, a national multi-line program administrator, announced today the addition of an exclusive new workers’ compensation insurance program with Falls...
Pandemics and Climate Change Present Opportunity for Insurers
Jun 9 2016 // The shoe may eventually be placed on the other foot for the U.S. This nation has a long-standing tradition of innovating products and ideas – particularly insurance products – and then exporting them to other...
Security Vendors, Partnerships Offer Key to Simplifying, Selling Cyber Insurance Online: CoverHound CEO
Jun 9 2016 // CoverHound CEO Keith Moore has a vision of simplifying cyber insurance sales that involves underwriting the security vendors used by insureds—a model that could ultimately allow small business customers to bind their...
Global Disasters During May to Cost Insurers at Least $7B: Aon Report
Jun 9 2016 // Global disasters led to at least $7 billion in claims during May as insurers aid the recovery process following wildfires, floods, and storms, according to Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s catastrophe model...
Doak Deems Oklahoma Earthquake Insurance Market ‘Noncompetive’
Jun 8 2016 // Oklahoma’s top insurance regulator has determined that there’s a definite lack of competition in the earthquake insurance market in Oklahoma and ordered insurers to change the way they file rates for the...
Connecticut Reviewing Health Insurers’ Rate Hike Requests
Jun 8 2016 // Connecticut’s Department of Insurance is reviewing rate increase requests filed by 14 health insurance companies that range on average from 2.1 percent to 32 percent. The private plans, offered on and off the...
How to Avoid D&O Policy Pitfalls – and Declined Claims: Marsh Report
Jun 8 2016 // When a directors and officers (D&O) claim is declined, it can be catastrophic for an insured, forcing the company to deal with “the financial costs of a claim or loss entirely on its own,” according to a...
Ohio Insurers Group: 11 Metro Areas in State See Decline in Auto Thefts
Jun 7 2016 // The Ohio Insurance Institute (OII) reported that 11 of the 15 Ohio metro areas (MSAs) in the National Insurance Crime Bureau’s (NICB) Hot Spots report show a decline in auto thefts between 2014 and 2015, based on...
Blanch Appointed President of Florida Flood Insurer TypTap
Jun 7 2016 // HCI Group, Inc. (HCI) has appointed Ted Blanch as president of TypTap Insurance Company, HCI’s new online insurance company. Blanch brings years of industry experience to TypTap, which offers an online platform to...
Insurers Must Stop Insuring Illegal Fishing Vessels: UBC Research
Jun 7 2016 // Rogue fishing vessels are able to secure insurance even after they have been red-flagged by international watchdogs for unlawful activity, according to research published by the University of British...
Michigan House Passes Repeal of Inadvertent Auto Insurer Tax Credit
Jun 6 2016 // The Michigan Legislature is close to repealing an annual tax break worth tens of millions of dollars that was inadvertently given to auto insurers four years ago, a move agreed to as part of a state budget deal. The...
What Insurance Industry Can Learn from Amazon About Customer Satisfaction
Jun 6 2016 // Amazon.com scored its sixth annual victory in the 24/7 Wall Street Customer Service Hall of Fame last year, with 59 percent of customers reporting that they received excellent customer service from the e-commerce giant....
