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Report: Mississippi Insurers Not Overcharging Coastal Residents
Jan 12 2016 // Results of Mississippi’s Property Insurance Clarity Act Data Call are in and they confirm what insurance experts in the state say they already knew: insurers are not overcharging coastal residents in Mississippi. In...
Insurance Execs’ Midlife Crisis Cure: Four AIG, ACE Veterans Join Startup P2P Insurer Lemonade
Jan 12 2016 // An instech startup looking to disrupt the property/casualty insurance industry with a new business model has turned to four seasoned insurance executives from traditional carriers AIG and ACE Insurance to round out its...
2016 Insurance Industry Meetings & Conventions Directory
Jan 11 2016 // Welcome to Insurance Journal‘s 2016 Insurance Industry Meetings and Conventions Directory. The information in this directory is taken from a larger database containing additional information on these and other...
Entrepreneurs Raise $13 Million to ‘Reinvent’ U.S. P/C Insurance with Peer-to-Peer Insurer Lemonade
Jan 11 2016 // The U.S. property/casualty insurance industry is about to be tested directly by the sharing economy. Two tech entrepreneurs have raised $13 million in initial funding to launch a peer-to-peer online property/casualty...
Florida Lawmakers to Industry: We Want YOU to Join State Flood Insurance Market
Jan 11 2016 // We think the time is right for you all to explore the [Florida] flood insurance market.” That was the message Florida Senator Jeff Brandes gave insurance industry attendees at the first ever Florida Flood Insurance...
For P/C Insurance Rates, 2015 Ended on Another Downward Note: MarketScout
Jan 5 2016 // While it may seem like the property/casualty insurance industry has been in a soft market for a long time, it’s actually only been four months, according to one brokerage executive who tracks pricing every...
Flood Claims to Hit U.K. Insurers’ 2015 Earnings: A.M. Best
Jan 5 2016 // Flooding in the final month of 2015 will put pressure on the earnings of U.K. property insurers, according to a briefing published by A.M. Best. Initial estimates of combined insured losses from Storm Desmond, which hit...
6 Forecasts for P/C Insurance in 2016
Jan 4 2016 // Some, but not all, experts see an improving U.S. economy in 2016 helping to boost the property/casualty (P/C) insurance sector. Some of these prognosticators are more optimistic than others. But most also anticipate...
El Niño Helped Reduce Natural Catastrophe Losses in 2015: Munich Re
Jan 4 2016 // Insurers paid out around $27 billion for natural disaster claims last year with weather causing 94 percent of incidents, underscoring the challenge posed by climate change, data from reinsurer Munich Re showed on...
12 Insurance Talks to Hear Before the Ball Drops
Dec 31 2015 // As a property/casualty insurance professional, you had a lot on your plate in 2015. You didn’t get to watch, listen to or read everything you wanted. From the 2015 Wells Media archives, here are some talks you may...
Florida Lawmakers to Industry: We Want YOU to Join State Flood Insurance Market
Dec 30 2015 // “We think the time is right for you all to explore the [Florida] flood insurance market.” That was the message Florida Senator Jeff Brandes gave insurance industry attendees at the first ever Florida Flood...
Top 10 Property/Casualty Insurance News Stories of 2015
Dec 30 2015 // The year 2015 was a year during which the property/casualty insurance industry worried and learned about disruptive forces, new competitors, new leaders and emerging risks. Also, some of the industry’s news revived...
Tennessee Adds 100th Captive Insurance Company
Dec 29 2015 // The Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance (TDCI) announced the licensing of Tennessee’s 100th captive insurance company on Dec. 22. In 2011, Gov. Bill Haslam signed the revised State of Tennessee’s...
City of Hope Research, Treatments Boosted by Insurance Industry Pocketbooks
Dec 23 2015 // When many people in the insurance industry think of the City of Hope, they probably associate it with the well-publicized National Insurance Industry Council’s Spirit of Life Award gala each year that has raised...
IICF Unites P/C Industry for Record Year of Giving
Dec 23 2015 // Prev Next Gillis, Ellis & Baker Employees of Gillis, Ellis & Baker Insurance (GEB) spent a recent weekend fixing up the exterior of the Gentilly home of Eleonor Sheppard. The GEB team repaired siding, painted the...
P/C Industry Growing and Aligning Its Charitable Giving
Dec 22 2015 // U.S. property/casualty insurers have increased their charitable giving by an average of 15 percent since 2011, to an industry total of $575 million, outpacing inflation and moving closer to what many industry leaders...
Flood, Fraud & the Florida Market: McCarty Talks Hot Insurance Topics in 2015
Dec 21 2015 // It was another busy year for the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR). From conducting the annual property/casualty data call and subsequent stress test of Florida property insurers, to working on the depopulation...
Top 5 Markets of 2015
Dec 21 2015 // There was no shortage of new products launched by the insurance industry in 2015. Cyber, a risk that has consistently seen a lot of activity over at least the last several years, continued to be on the top of the...
The Top Insurance News Stories of the Year 2015
Dec 21 2015 // The year 2015 was a year during which the property/casualty insurance industry got a glimpse at its future in the form of disruptive forces, new competitors, new leaders and emerging risks. Also, some of the news revived...
City of Hope Research, Treatments Boosted by Insurance Industry Pocketbooks
Dec 21 2015 // When many people in the insurance industry think of City of Hope, they probably associate it with the well-publicized National Insurance Industry Council’s Spirit of Life Award gala each year that has raised millions...
