Latest CNA Insurance Headlines
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Aon’s Scarborough Partners with CNA to Offer P/C Coverage to Financial Institutions
Jun 23 2004 // scarborough, a subsidiary of Aon Corp., announced that it has established a “new business relationship with CNA, one of the nation’s leading business insurers, to offer property and casualty insurance to...
CAA Elects 2004 Management Committee
Jun 9 2004 // Austin, Texas-based Combined Agents of America LLC announced its 2004 management committee, elected to serve two-year terms by CAA’s board of members. The new committee is as follows: Chairman of the Board –...
Professional Liability for Agencies
May 17 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Chicago-based CNA insurance companies and Affinity Insurance Services, a subsidiary of Aon Corp., have jointly introduced Agency Advantage, a new professional liability insurance program for...
Swiss Re Completes Admin Re Acquisition of CNA’s Individual Life Insurance Business
May 3 2004 // Swiss Re announced that it has completed its previously announced Admin Re acquisition of CNA Financial Corp.’s individual life insurance business for approximately $700 million. “The in force business, which...
CNA Finance Chief to Resign
Apr 30 2004 // Chicago-based commercial lines insurer CNA announced that its chief financial officer, Robert V. Deutsch, will step down once a replacement is found. CNA reported a first-quarter loss of $125 million thanks to the sale of...
CNA CEO GETS 43 PERCENT PAY HIKE:
Apr 19 2004 // A proxy filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission shows that that the CEO of Chicago-based CNA received a 43 percent pay increase last year, according to Crain’s Chicago Business. CEO Stephen Lilienthal...
CNA Chief Gets 43% Pay Hike
Apr 7 2004 // A proxy filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission shows that that the CEO of Chicago-based CNA received a 43 percent pay increase last year, according to Crain’s Chicago Business. CEO Stephen Lilienthal...
S&P Affirms CNA Insurance (UK) ‘ A-‘ Ratings
Apr 2 2004 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has affirmed its ‘A-‘ long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on U.K.-based commercial and cargo lines writer CNA...
Mass. Agents, Bar Compete with Lawyers Programs
Mar 18 2004 // Three months after the insurer and the Massachusetts Bar Association (MBA) parted ways, Westport Insurance Corp. has signed on with the state’s agent association to sell its lawyers’ professional liability...
Hinkle Joins CNA Surety as Chief Underwriting Officer
Mar 10 2004 // Chicago-based CNA Surety Corp. announced that Douglas W. Hinkle has joined the company as chief underwriting officer. Hinkle comes to CNA Surety with more than 25 years of insurance experience. Most recently, he was a...
CNA Insurance Selects Crawford & Company for Claims Handling Services
Mar 5 2004 // Atlanta, Ga.-based Crawford & Company was recently named as one of three national service providers to offer property, casualty, and workers’ compensation claims handling to CNA Insurance...
Cunningham Lindsey approved by CNA for claims handling
Feb 20 2004 // Cunningham Lindsey US, Inc., a subsidiary of Lindsey Morden Group, Inc., has recently been accepted by CNA as an approved Independent Adjusting Company to assist them with their outside claims handling needs in the United...
CNA Surety Releases Q4 and Year-End 2003 Results
Feb 16 2004 // CNA Surety Corporation reported net income for the fourth quarter of 2003 of $10.6 million, or $0.25 per share, compared to net income of $4.0 million, or $0.09 per share, for the same period in 2002. The fourth quarter...
Former CNA Re Exec Launches DirectFac
Feb 11 2004 // Rory A. Cline, former executive vice president of facultative reinsurance at CNA Reinsurance, has launched DirectFac Inc., a new independent property facultative agency that aims to provide insurers direct access to...
Swiss Re to Acquire CNA’s Life Business for $690 Million
Feb 5 2004 // Swiss Re announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Chicago-based CNA Financial’s individual life insurance business, as well as a life insurance servicing and administration facility in Nashville, Tenn.,...
CNA Announces New BOP Options
Jan 20 2004 // Chicago-based commercial lines insurer CNA announced the early release of its enhanced Business Account Package Policy (BAPP). Originally scheduled for release in late March, the company said in a statement that the...
CNA Targets $1 Billion in Main Street Business
Jan 12 2004 // The small business unit of Chicago-based commercial lines insurer CNA hopes to hit $1 billion in premium volume at the end of 2005 by targeting Main Street businesses with more customized policy forms and a stripped-down...
CNA Targets $1 Billion in Main Street Business
Jan 12 2004 // The small business unit of Chicago-based commercial lines insurer CNA hopes to hit $1 billion in premium volume at the end of 2005 by targeting Main Street businesses with more customized policy forms and a stripped-down...
CNA Finalizes Group Benefits Sale
Jan 6 2004 // Chicago-based commercial lines insurer CNA Financial Corp. has completed the previously announced sale of its group benefits business to Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. for about $500 million. The business sold...
CNA Surety Downgraded
Dec 1 2003 // A.M. Best Co. downgraded the financial strength ratings to “A” (excellent) from “A+” (superior) of the members of the CNA Surety Corporation Group based in Chicago. The rating outlook is...
