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Australia’s Storms Estimated to Cost Insurers $28 Million: Insurance Council
Jun 6 2016 // The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) has declared an insurance catastrophe after the storms that pounded the east coast of Queensland and New South Wales (NSW) over the weekend. By Monday, June 6, insurers had received...
Agency E&O and Carrier Insolvency: Things Stay the Same
Jun 6 2016 // Insurance company insolvency has been a thorny issue spanning many decades. The only consistency is that there is no one solution and that an agent can be held liable for placing coverage with a company that becomes...
Carriers Can Still Profit Despite Unpredictable Economy, Berkley Says
Jun 6 2016 // Partnership and greater efficiency will help lead the way to continued profitability despite a new level of uncertainty globally, according to Bill Berkley, executive chairman of the W.R. Berkley Corp. and keynote speaker...
Popular Program Market: New Programs Might Get a Chance
Jun 6 2016 // The program insurance segment has been an attractive area for property/casualty carriers in recent years and interest doesn’t appear to be faltering. While carriers have been eager to snatch-up mature and profitable...
P/C Insurers Continue to See Slow Premium Growth and Rising Loss Ratios
Jun 6 2016 // For U.S. property/casualty insurers, net written premium still grew in 2015, but the rate of expansion is slowing, and the industry’s collective combined ratio worsened slightly, according to a new report from ISO...
Beef, Microplastics, Blockchain Tech and Human Cyborgs: Swiss Re on Emerging Risks
Jun 6 2016 // A fragmented Internet, continued experimentation with monetary policy and another round of economic crises in emerging markets top Swiss Re’s latest roundup of emerging risks to watch out for. Beyond those top three,...
New Jersey Regulator: State’s Marketplace Is Strong, Vibrant
Jun 6 2016 // Richard J. BadolatoNew Jersey’s insurance marketplace is strong and continues to grow, with new market entrants bringing more competition and products for the benefit of consumers, the state’s top regulator...
Regulators: 4 Insurers Hold 55% of the Oklahoma Earthquake Market
Jun 6 2016 // At a May 24 hearing on the competitiveness of earthquake insurance coverage in Oklahoma state insurance regulators released data showing four insurance companies hold 55 percent of the market. That’s a concern for...
Federal Reserve Unveils New Proposed Capital Rules for Large Insurers
Jun 5 2016 // American International Group Inc. and Prudential Financial Inc.’s new capital rules should reflect the insurance business’s differences from Wall Street banking, the Federal Reserve said in a proposal to limit...
Texas Coast Wind Insurer: Position for Hurricane Season Is ‘Strongest-Ever’
Jun 3 2016 // With its reinsurance program now in place, the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) says it is in its strongest-ever position for this year’s hurricane season with $4.9 billion in total funding available to...
Insurer Fossil Fuel Divestment Focus of Washington Climate Change Summit
Jun 2 2016 // Getting insurers to rid themselves of investments in fossil fuels, creating products to deal with climate change and helping the world better understand risk, were among the topics on Wednesday at a summit on the insurance...
Health Insurers File for Rate Hikes in Kansas
Jun 2 2016 // The Kansas Insurance Department is reviewing requested rate filings for individual and small group health plans in Kansas for 2017. The range of requested average rate revisions by insurance companies is from 3.3 percent...
U.S. Insurer, Tech, Business Groups Balk at China’s Rules on Insurance Cybersecurity
Jun 2 2016 // Business groups from the U.S. and around the world protested planned cybersecurity rules for the insurance industry in China in a letter to the head of the nation’s insurance regulator. The draft regulations may...
Canadian Grain Bin Maker Sued by North Dakota Insurance Company
Jun 2 2016 // A North Dakota-based insurance company is accusing a major farm equipment manufacturer from Canada of making defective grain bins. Farmers Union Mutual Insurance Co. of Jamestown is suing Winnipeg-based Westeel in federal...
Fitch: Florida Specialist Insurers Largely Untested By Hurricanes
Jun 2 2016 // The majority of Florida’s homeowner specialist insurers have brief histories, and their ability to manage a large catastrophic hurricane is uncertain despite recent strong performance, according to a new report from...
Health Insurers Seek Big Premium Increases in Pennsylvania
May 31 2016 // Pennsylvania’s insurance regulators are starting a review of health plans for coverage next year through the federal marketplaces, including several that seek premium increases in excess of 40 percent. The...
Federal Reserve Plans June 3 Meeting on Insurance Carrier Capital Rules
May 31 2016 // The U.S. Federal Reserve will hold an open meeting this coming Friday on proposals, in the works for more than five years, for capital requirements and other rules for insurance companies. The central bank’s...
California Commissioner Lowers Workers’ Comp Advisory Rate
May 31 2016 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones adopted and issued a revised advisory pure premium rate, lowering the benchmark to $2.30 per $100 of payroll for workers’ compensation insurance. The change is effective...
U.S.-EU Continue Talks on Insurance Regulation Covered Agreement
May 31 2016 // Trade representatives for the United States and the European Union, who met May 24 and 25 to negotiate a bilateral covered agreement on regulations for insurers and reinsurers, on Friday issued a joint statement indicating...
China Likely to Adopt Cyber Rules for Insurers Despite Foreign Business Concerns
May 31 2016 // Controversial cyber security regulations for China’s insurance industry, now before the World Trade Organization (WTO), could soon take effect despite efforts by foreign business groups to persuade Beijing to change...
