Latest Personal Lines Headlines
All the headlines from our Personal Lines Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Offer Pre-Packaged Personal Auto Insurance Choices
Feb 24 2008 // Like it or not, personal automobile insurance, along with personal computers, has evolved into a commodity product. According to Wikipedia, a commodity is defined as “a largely homogeneous product, traded solely on...
Lerner Joins Wholesaler Demetriou Agency to Direct Personal Lines
Feb 13 2008 // Andrew Lerner has joined the Demetriou General Agency as director of personal lines. He will oversee a staff of 15. Lerner brings 23 years of agency experience to Demetriou General Agency. He has owned several agency...
Safeco Names Newgarden SVP, Underwriting for Personal Insurance
Feb 13 2008 // Thomas Newgarden has joined Seattle-based Safeco as senior vice president of underwriting for Safeco Personal Insurance. Previously, Newgarden was senior vice president and chief underwriting officer of AIG Private Client...
N.J. Relaxes Rules for Writing Personal Auto Insurance
Jan 4 2008 // New Jersey auto insurance agents will have a lot easier time quoting and writing new policies under a bill signed yesterday by Gov. Jon S. Corzine. The bill, which had awaited his signature since last month, eliminates the...
ACE Acquires Personal Lines Business of Atlantic Mutual
Dec 20 2007 // The Atlantic Companies, also known as Atlantic Mutual, has sold its high-net-worth personal lines insurance business to The ACE Group of Companies for an undisclosed price. The deal, expected to close in 30 days, gives ACE...
U.S. Personal Lines Insurers Trying To Maintain Profits In Softening Market
Dec 4 2007 // U.S. personal lines insurance sector is at a critical juncture, according to an article published by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services. The article, which is titled “2008 U.S. Personal Lines Outlook: A...
Lexington Offers Green Upgrade for Residential Coverage
Nov 15 2007 // Lexington Insurance Co., a member company of American International Group Inc. introduced Upgrade To Green Residential, an insurance coverage allowing U.S. homeowner policyholders to rebuild their property to...
GIA Launches Pricing Program for Personal Auto
Nov 2 2007 // Grange Insurance Association based in Seattle has launched a new pricing program for personal auto in Colorado, Idaho, Oregon and Wyoming “GIA’s tiered auto program will position our agents to be more...
International, Personal Lines Drive Liberty Mutual 3d Quarter
Nov 1 2007 // Liberty Mutual Group reported net operating income of $390 million for the three months ended September 30, 2007, an increase of $3 million over the same period in 2006. Results in the quarter include a 9.6% increase in...
Bottom Line: Allstate’s Aggressive Personal Lines Strategy Paying Off
Oct 17 2007 // When a series of killer hurricanes walloped the Gulf Coast in 2005, costing Allstate Corp. a record quarterly loss of $1.55 billion, the company tried to make sure its bottom line would never be hit so hard again. The...
Abram Interstate Offers a Preferred Program for Personal Auto
Oct 15 2007 // Abram Interstate Insurance Services Inc. in Rocklin, Calif., is offering a personal auto program in California. The policy provides collision coverage, comprehensive coverage, bodily injury liability, property damage...
R.I.’s Babcock & Helliwell Appoints Duarte in Personal Lines
Sep 28 2007 // Babcock & Helliwell, an agency in Wakefield, R.I., recently appointed Susana M. Duarte as an account manager for personal lines insurance. She will be responsible for the sales and servicing of personal lines...
Maine Court: Deputy Injured by Own Police Car Covered by Personal Policy
Sep 25 2007 // A sheriff’s deputy who was run over by his own police vehicle after it was stolen by a Jefferson man on Christmas five years ago is entitled to compensation from his personal car insurance company, Maine’s...
Progressive combines personal lines management
Sep 24 2007 // The Progressive Corp. in Mayfield, Ohio, is consolidating management of its two distribution channels for personal lines. Since 2000, Progressive’s personal lines segment has been organized into two businesses...
Progressive Combines Agency, Direct Personal Lines Management
Sep 12 2007 // The Progressive Corp. in Mayfield, Ohio is consolidating management of its two distribution channels for personal lines. Since 2000, Progressive’s personal lines segment has been organized into two businesses—the...
Harry W. Gorst Names Oliva Personal Lines Underwriter
Sep 7 2007 // Chatsworth, Calif.-based The Harry W. Gorst, Co. promoted Nelson Oliva to underwriter for the personal lines department. Oliva joined the firm in 2004 as assistant underwriter and reported directly to Bryan Clark, senior...
Hanover Names Morelli Regional V.P., Personal Lines, in N.Y.
Sep 4 2007 // The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. announced that Roger Morelli has been named regional vice president for personal lines for the company’s New York territory. Morelli will be responsible for both the Upstate and...
R&M Reports UK Personal Lines Brokers Losing Business
Aug 10 2007 // Dublin-based analysts Research and Markets has added “The Future Role Of Brokers In UK Personal General Insurance 2007” to their offering. “Insurance brokers have lost market share in UK personal lines...
La. Posts New Online Personal Lines Rate Comparison Guides
Aug 10 2007 // Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon announced that new online auto and homeowners rate comparison guides are now available for viewing on the Department of Insurance Web site at www.ldi.state.la.us. “The...
Personal Lines LEADERS
Jun 4 2007 // About the Personal Lines Leaders: The Personal Lines Leaders in this special feature are taken from Insurance Journal’s Top 100 Property Casualty Independent Agencies as reported in April. This list utilizes only the...
