Latest CNA Insurance Headlines

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CNA GSL Unveils EPL Program

Jun 6 2001 // CNA Global Specialty Lines (GSL) recently announced their new, Employment Practices Liability Risk Management Services program. This program provides easy access to both legal and human resources consultants and...

CNA and MarketScout Partner to Target Independent Agents

Jun 5 2001 // Capitalizing on CNA’s underwriting skills and MarketScout’s eInsurance distribution system, the two companies will provide independent agents access to a broad array of CNA products via MarketScout’s...

CNA Forms Alliance with Ambridge Partners For TFI Products

May 17 2001 // CNA Global Specialty Lines, a unit of Chicago’s CNA, based in New York, announced an alliance with London’s Ambridge Partners LLC, described as “a highly specialized managing general underwriter for...

CNA Launches Pilot Internet Cargo Program

Apr 26 2001 // CNA’s maritime division announced that it will begin a pilot program of a system that “enables OMMni.com, the automated ocean cargo insurance system, to receive instructions to issue electronic insurance...

CNA Pro’s E-Pack Policy Admitted in 40+ States

Mar 26 2001 // CNA Pro’s E-Pack, introduced last year, has been admitted in more than 40 states, offering both miscellaneous professional liability and employment practices liability. Other coverages also offered are directors...

McGavick Takes Helm at SAFECO

Feb 12 2001 // Ending a search that has been ongoing since last October, Michael S. McGavick was named president, CEO and member of the Board of Directors of Seattle-based SAFECO Corporation on Jan. 30. McGavick, a native Washing-tonian,...

CNA Names Stonehouse To Lead California Agency Market Division

Feb 8 2001 // CNA Financial Corp. has hired Stephen G. Stonehouse as president of the California Operations for Agency Markets. Stonehouse will lead the zone operation for California, and the Commercial Insurance branches in the state...

CNA’S Hengesbaugh Named III Chairman

Jan 19 2001 // Bernard L. Hengesbaugh, chairman and chief executive officer of Chicago-based CNA, was elected chairman of the board of the Insurance Information Institute. Klaus G. Dorfi of the Atlantic Mutual Companies was elected...

Munich Am Re Closes CNA Life Re Acquisition

Jan 5 2001 // Munich American Reassurance Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Germany’s Munich Re, has completed the previously announced purchase of CNA Financial Corporation’s life insurance business, CNA Life Re and...

CNA Re Introduces smartfac, Providing Internet Submission and Tracking Capabilities

Dec 5 2000 // CNA Re has introduced smartfac, a new Web-enabled facultative submission system facilitating property and casualty facultative submissions via the Internet. Property and casualty underwriters can use the smartfac system to...

CNA Third-Quarter Income Up Slightly

Nov 9 2000 // CNA Financial Corporation today reported net operating income for the third quarter of 2000 of $90 million, or $0.49 per share, compared with net operating income of $82 million, or $0.43 per share, for the same quarter in...

AgentSecure.com Launches, Provides Access to CNA, The Hartford, Zurich

Oct 10 2000 // AgentSecure.com has launched, providing agents access to carriers CNA, The Hartford, and Zurich. Rural and suburban agents who may not otherwise meet the volume requirements are now able to offer their customers standard...

Munich American Re To Acquire CNA Life Re

Oct 9 2000 // Munich American Re (MARC), the U.S. subsidiary of Munich Re, announced plans to acquire by retrocession the reinsurance life business of Chicago based CNA Financial Corp., CNA Life Re and Agora Re.com for an undisclosed...

CNA GOES SAILING ON THE INTERNET

Oct 9 2000 // CNA Maritime has established “Ocean Marine Manager network interface,” (OMMni), “an automated cargo insurance system accessible over the Internet.” Designed by CNA Maritime Group, the ocean marine...

CNA E&S Aligns With ICSA.net, Sherwood Ins. Services

Oct 2 2000 // CNA E&S, a business division of CNA, has aligned with ICSA.net, an Internet security assurance business, and broker Sherwood Insurance Services. Through their alliance CNA E&S, Sherwood and ICSA.net will promote...

CNA Personal Insurance Unveils New Name

Sep 29 2000 // CNA Personal Insurance has changed its name to Encompass Insurance, pledging to sell only through independent agents. Independent agents represent one third of the personal lines insurance market and $45 billion in annual...

Chubb, CNA Complete Sale of Aviation Underwriter

Sep 28 2000 // Chubb Corp. announced that it has completed the sale of its ownership interest in Associated Aviation Underwriters, Inc. (AAU) to British Aviation Insurance Group Ltd. (BAIG). Chubb’s partner in the aviation and...

CNA Maritime Launches Cargo Insurance Via Internet

Sep 25 2000 // Cargo insurance, the grandfather of all international property coverage, is about to enter the Internet age with the announcement that CNA Maritime has established “Ocean Marine Manager network interface,”...

ZURICH ACQUIRES CNA ENERGY

Sep 4 2000 // Zurich Global Energy, the energy unit of Zurich Financial Services Group, and All American Marine Slip, a unit of MOAC, the ocean marine arm of CNA, have agreed to transfer a substantial part of AAMS’ offshore energy...

Zurich Global Energy Acquires Energy Business from CNA Division

Aug 22 2000 // Zurich Global Energy, the energy unit of Zurich Financial Services Group, and All American Marine Slip, a unit of MOAC, the ocean marine arm of CNA, announced today the transfer of a substantial part of AAMS’...