Latest Allied Insurance Headlines
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Ratings Recap: Delphi, RTW, Nationwide Financial, United America
May 16 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has assigned its “BBB-” preferred stock rating to Delphi Financial Group Inc.’s proposed $150 million, junior subordinated deferrable interest debentures with...
News Currents
May 7 2007 // Nationwide to readjust 500 Miss. Katrina claims Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. will readjust claims for about 500 Mississippi policyholders whose homes were reduced to foundations by Hurricane Katrina, state Insurance...
Professional Program Insurance Brokerage Lowers Property Rates Nationwide
May 1 2007 // Due to the huge success and continued growth of all of their offered programs, combined with a catastrophe free season, Professional Program Insurance Brokerage has reduced their property rates nationwide. New rates take...
Nationwide Agrees to Readjust 500 Miss. Katrina Claims
Apr 20 2007 // Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. will readjust claims for about 500 Mississippi policyholders whose homes were reduced to foundations by Hurricane Katrina, state Insurance Commissioner George Dale said. The so-called...
New Fla. Law to Lower Nationwide’s 54% Homeowners Hike
Apr 2 2007 // An arbitration panel has approved a statewide average increase of 54 percent for homeowners rates that Nationwide Insurance requested last year – but for many policyholders it will likely be much less because of a...
Bliss & Glennon Expands Nationwide with Central, Southeast Offices
Mar 8 2007 // Bliss and Glennon, Inc., a managing general agency and surplus lines broker, has announced its expansion into the Central and Southeast regions of the country. Robert P. Abramson, director of Excess and Surplus Lines,...
GMAC to Offer RV Coverage Nationwide
Feb 27 2007 // St. Louis-based GMAC Insurance announced the nationwide rollout of its specialized RV insurance through independent agencies. The move comes as part of a GMAC Insurance initiative to expand its product offerings sold...
Katrina lawsuits: Are the winds of fortune changing for insurers?
Feb 26 2007 // In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina when it became apparent that property losses would total billions of dollars, the insurance industry was understandably concerned that courts in Mississippi and Louisiana...
Katrina lawsuits: Are the winds of fortune changing for insurers?
Feb 25 2007 // In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina when it became apparent that property losses would total billions of dollars, the insurance industry was understandably concerned that courts in Mississippi and Louisiana...
Ohio Nationwide Insurance Members’ Data Taken in Theft from Vendor
Jan 25 2007 // Computer records containing medical claim information, health data and Social Security numbers of 28,279 Nationwide insurance customers were stolen from the office of a vendor in Massachusetts, the company said. A lockbox...
Nationwide Super Bowl Ad Draws Criticism from Restaurant Association
Jan 25 2007 // A restaurant trade group is insulted by an insurance company’s planned Super Bowl commercial starring Kevin Federline working at a fast-food joint. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co.’s ad shows Federline, the...
Fla. CFO Launches Nationwide Search for Fraud Director
Jan 23 2007 // In effort to combat the mounting rate of insurance fraud, Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink has launched a nationwide search for a “highly-experienced and talented” law enforcement official to lead the...
N.Y.-N.J. Ports Panel Urges Nationwide Cargo Standards, Security Czar
Dec 22 2006 // A port security task force this week urged that the nation adopt mandatory security standards for cargo and that the president appoint a port security czar to coordinate the federal agencies that oversee the nation’s...
Regulator Study Shows Iowa Motorists Rank 50 Nationwide
Dec 15 2006 // Iowa motorists’ ability to avoid accidents has made the state one of the cheapest place to buy auto insurance, an industry report says. A survey by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, found that in...
Suit against Miss. agent over flood policy advances
Dec 11 2006 // A federal judge has ruled that a Gulf Coast couple can sue their insurance agent for negligence after he allegedly allowed their flood insurance policy to lapse only days before Hurricane Katrina wrecked their...
Suit against Miss. agent over flood policy advances
Dec 10 2006 // A federal judge has ruled that a Gulf Coast couple can sue their insurance agent for negligence after he allegedly allowed their flood insurance policy to lapse only days before Hurricane Katrina wrecked their...
Nationwide Appeals Technical Issues in Miss. Court Katrina Win
Nov 27 2006 // Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. is appealing a landmark court decision in the first trial to challenge insurers for refusing to cover billions of dollars in damage from Hurricane Katrina’s storm...
Miss. couple denied new trial on storm surge
Nov 20 2006 // A federal judge says he won’t order a new trial for a Pascagoula, Miss. couple whose lawsuit against their insurance company was the first case to be tried in Gulfport after Hurricane Katrina spawned hundreds of...
News Currents
Nov 19 2006 // Miss. couple denied new trial on Katrina storm surge A federal judge says he won’t order a new trial for a Pascagoula, Miss., couple whose lawsuit against their insurance company was the first case to be tried in...
Judge Allows Miss. Suit Against Agent for Lapsed Flood Policy
Nov 17 2006 // A federal judge has ruled that a Gulf Coast couple can sue their insurance agent for negligence after he allegedly allowed their flood insurance policy to lapse only days before Hurricane Katrina wrecked their...
