Latest New Markets Headlines
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American Safety Launches Professional Liability Product
Oct 21 2010 // American Safety Insurance (ASI) announces the launch of its professional liability unit, providing directors and officers (D&O) and errors and omissions (E&O) coverage for specialty risks. The team, lead by Peter...
Insurance Industry Unveils Massive $40 Million Disaster Research Center
Oct 20 2010 // A major research arm of the property insurance industry used giant fans to blow down a two-story, Midwestern-styled house yesterday as part of an unveiling ceremony for a massive new research facility in South...
Allied World Launches Management Liability for Healthcare Organizations
Oct 12 2010 // Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, announced today the introduction, by Allied World U.S., of its ForceField for Healthcare Organizations management liability standalone coverage solutions. ForceField for Healthcare...
Markel Launches Markel Management Liability
Oct 8 2010 // Markel Corporation has introduced Markel Management Liability, an integrated suite of coverages including directors’ & officers’ liability, employment practices liability, and fiduciary liability. The...
Insurer PURE Enters North Carolina High-End Coastal Home Market
Oct 7 2010 // An insurer specializing in pricey properties is moving into North Carolina with a particular eye toward coastal real estate. Privilege Underwriters Reciprocal Exchange (PURE) offers its homeowners insurance policies for...
Allied World U.S. Launches New Privacy Liability Product
Oct 6 2010 // Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, Ltd has launched a next generation of Allied World’s Privacy Liability product: Privacy//403v2. Privacy//403v2 is designed specifically for a broad spectrum of...
Venture Launches Mono-line Umbrella Coverage for Golf, Country Clubs
Oct 4 2010 // Venture Insurance Programs has launched ClubCover, a new mono-line umbrella liability coverage for golf and country clubs offering proper limits, more cost-effective premiums and a fast, easy online system. ClubCover...
MDAdvantage Launches Protection for Business Side of Medicine
Oct 1 2010 // To help New Jersey physicians protect against the rising number of business risks beyond the practice of medicine, MDAdvantage has introduced Supreme Advantage insurance for employment practices liability, privacy and data...
Five Star Specialty Programs Launches Healthcare Practice
Sep 30 2010 // Five Star Specialty Programs, a division of Crump Insurance Services Inc. and part of Crump Group Inc., announced it is launching a new health care practice based in Sacramento, Calif. The practice, known as Five Star...
AmTrust Launches Contractors General Liability Program
Sep 27 2010 // AmTrust North America, a business unit of AmTrust Financial Services Inc. has formed a contractors general liability insurance program, a new underwriting classification available exclusively to licensed wholesale surplus...
Texas Workers’ Comp Division Announces August Enforcement Actions
Sep 24 2010 // Texas Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation Rod Bordelon recently announced final disciplinary actions taken in August by the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC)....
Lloyd’s Chaucer to Launch New International Liability Division
Sep 24 2010 // Lloyd’s insurer Chaucer has outlined its plans for the launch of a new International Liability Division by the end of the year, according to a bulletin on the Lloyd’s web site. “The move follows a series...
Arch Insurance Group Launches New Coverage for Nonprofit Organizations
Sep 24 2010 // Arch Insurance Group (Arch), a member of Arch Capital Group Ltd., has unveiled Arch Canopy Policy for Nonprofit Organizations. Nonprofit organizations are increasingly vulnerable to the expanding types of litigation which...
PartnerOne, Berkley Environmental Launch Small Business Program
Sep 23 2010 // PartnerOne Environmental, Beacon Hill Associates’ underwriting division, has established a partnership with Berkley Environmental, a Divisional of Berkley Specialty Underwriting Managers, servicing small to middle...
Keystone Insurers to Enter Tennessee Market
Sep 9 2010 // Keystone Insurers Group, with more than 215 franchise partners in six states, today announced it will expand into Tennessee early next year. The privately held company is owned by its employees and partners in...
UK’s Arc Legal Launches Yacht and Marine Legal Expense Coverage
Aug 26 2010 // Arc Legal Assistance, a UK-based specialist provider of legal expenses insurance, has announced the launch of a dedicated yachting and marine pleasure craft legal expenses cover and claims service. The company said it...
Beazley Launches Fixed Site Environmental Cleanup Coverage
Aug 25 2010 // Beazley Group has added coverage for fixed site environmental exposures to its growing range of environmental products. Beazley ECLIPSE is an environmental liability and cleanup costs insurance product, designed to help...
General Star Launches Occurrence Coverage for Ambulance Program
Aug 16 2010 // General Star has launched professional liability coverage for air and ground ambulances on an occurrence basis. This new option is an alternative to the claims-made professional coverage currently available. Program...
3 Imaginative Approaches to Agency Marketing in the Entertainment Age
Aug 16 2010 // GEICO, State Farm, Progressive, e-surance and other major insurance marketers currently employ humor in their advertising. There’s GEICO’s prolonged use of the gecko, State Farm’s whyagent.com Web site,...
3 Imaginative Approaches to Agency Marketing in the Entertainment Age
Aug 16 2010 // Agents Must Employ Creative Insurance Marketing … or Else GEICO, State Farm, Progressive, e-surance and other major insurance marketers currently employ humor in their advertising. There’s GEICO’s...
