Latest New Markets Headlines
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Nashville Launches Flood Preparedness Program
Feb 16 2011 // Nashville Mayor Karl Dean says the city has assembled a team to develop a unified flood preparedness program to lessen the damages that could be caused by future flood events in Nashville and Davidson County. The process...
The Hartford Launches Workers Comp Guide For Business Owners
Feb 14 2011 // The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. has introduced an e-learning guide designed to clarify and simplify workers’ compensation insurance. The Hartford developed the new online resource for business owners and...
Chartis Launches Tender Offer for All Shares of Fuji Fire and Marine
Feb 10 2011 // Chartis Inc., the general insurance subsidiary of American International Group has announced a cash tender offer through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Chartis Japan Capital Company LLC (Chartis Japan LLC), for all common...
Cooper Gay Launches European Markets Integrated Trading Unit
Feb 2 2011 // London-based Cooper Gay, an independent global wholesale, reinsurance and specialist retail insurance broker, has launched Cooper Gay European Markets, which it describes as an “integrated trading unit to provide...
Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty Launches New Website
Jan 19 2011 // Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) has published a new corporate website, featuring “an extensive knowledge section and other enhancements to keep its clients, brokers, business partners, press and any...
Chartis Launches Hospitality Industry Coverage Enhancements
Jan 18 2011 // Chartis has introduced a series of coverage enhancements, developed by its Commercial Casualty division, to address the unique casualty exposures of the hospitality industry. The coverages are part of a suite of primary...
K&K, RLI Partner to Offer Product Liability for Sports, Entertainment Risks
Jan 13 2011 // K&K Insurance announces a new products liability program in partnership with RLI, a specialty insurance company operating in all 50 states. This arrangement offers an additional avenue for competitive quotes in the...
Atlas General Insurance Services Announces Addition of New Carrier for its Workers’ Compensation Program
Jan 11 2011 // San Diego, CA, 1/11/2011 – Atlas General Insurance Services is pleased to announce the addition of a new carrier to enhance its workers’ compensation portfolio. This new program, developed by Atlas and Republic...
Starr Indemnity Launches Primary Commercial Auto Facility
Jan 10 2011 // Starr Indemnity & Liability Company, Inc. (Starr Indemnity) has launched primary commercial auto to complete their primary casualty offerings. “With the introduction of our primary auto capabilities, Starr...
AmerInst Professional Launches E&O Coverage for Small Law Firms
Jan 5 2011 // When it comes to the legal profession, there are two known facts: claims against lawyers tend to increase in an economic downturn; and small firms (with fewer than five attorneys) are extremely vulnerable to legal...
Big ‘I’ Markets, ARMR Launch Storage Tank Product
Dec 22 2010 // The Independent Agents and Brokers of America Big “I” Markets launched a new insurance policy option with American Risk Management Resources Network, LLC (ARMR.NET) for above and below ground storage tank...
American Claims Management Announces New Business Relationship with Zurich
Dec 20 2010 // CLARIFICATION OF RELEASE SENT ON 12/20/2010 San Diego, CA 12/21/10 – American Claims Management, Inc. (ACM) announces a new business relationship with Zurich North America Commercial’s Programs business...
CompWest Announces Workers’ Comp Program for Golf, Country Clubs
Dec 16 2010 // CompWest Insurance Co. has joined with Club Learning Institute (CLI) to provide an exclusive workers’ compensation program for golf and country club business. The program is available to private and semi-private...
Allied World Reinsurance U.S. Launches Global Marine, Specialty Division
Dec 15 2010 // Allied World Reinsurance has launched a global Marine and Specialty Division that will initially offer reinsurance for marine, aviation, satellite and crop reinsurance on a global basis. Allied World Re U.S. has appointed...
Liberty International Underwriters Launches E&S Property Product
Dec 9 2010 // Liberty International Underwriters U.S. (LIU) has launched an Excess and Surplus Lines (E&S) Property product. This product provides wholesale brokers with a new market for their clients’ commercial property...
Calif. Regulators Announce 2011 Workers’ Comp Assessment Rates
Nov 30 2010 // The California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) has calculated the 2011 assessments that state law requires workers’ compensation insurers collect from policyholders to cover the budget of the state Division...
Newly Formed Aliseo Re Enters Global Retrocession Market
Nov 24 2010 // Barbados-based Aliseo Reinsurance SCC announced its entry into the global retrocession market with an initial capitalization of $300 million. Aliseo Re said it would “operate as a monoline retrocessionaire focusing...
ACE Global Engineering Network Launches Industry Fact Sheets
Oct 29 2010 // The ACE Global Engineering Network (AGEN), a division of the ACE Group of companies, has launched 12 fact sheets for its clients that provide an in-depth analysis of property risk management issues facing a range of...
Navigators Launches Specialty Reinsurance Business
Oct 29 2010 // The Navigators Group has established Navigators Re, a unit focused on developing specialty assumed reinsurance business. “As a global specialty insurer, there are certain product lines and geographies where a...
Liberty Northwest Launches Commercial Series for Small to Mid-Sized Businesses
Oct 27 2010 // Liberty Northwest, a Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company, today announced the launch of the Liberty Northwest Commercial Series, its insurance solution for small to medium-sized businesses. The portfolio...