Latest Personal Lines Headlines

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Burns & Wilcox Adds Woods as Personal Lines Underwriter in LA

May 2 2007 // Burns & Wilcox announces that Aaron Woods has joined the company’s Los Angeles office, which is located in Woodland Hills, Calif., as a personal lines underwriter/broker. Previously, Woods spent three years as a...

Bristol West Launches Personal Auto Product in Ark.

May 1 2007 // Bristol West Holdings Inc. announced it has begun writing private passenger automobile insurance in Arkansas. Bristol West entered Arkansas by deploying Select 2.0, a segmented insurance product that utilizes the...

Main Street America Rolls Out Multivariate Personal Lines Rating

May 1 2007 // The Main Street America Group announced today the launch of its Personal Auto MVP (multivariate program), a rating program designed to provide greater pricing flexibility for the super regional property-casualty insurance...

Houston General Offers Personal Lines Insurance in Ind.

Apr 25 2007 // Indiana consumers have new options for insuring their homes, cars and other valuable assets. Mass.-based Houston General Insurance Exchange recently announced that it is now offering homeowners and auto insurance in...

Western Security Surplus Adds New Personal Lines Program

Apr 25 2007 // Pasadena, Calif.-based Western Security Surplus Insurance Brokers Inc. (WSS) has added a new personal lines program for California brokers. The program is written on a non-admitted basis. Both homeowner and dwelling fire...

Hub International Midwest Limited Names Director of Personal Lines Sales

Apr 18 2007 // Hub International Midwest Limited announced today the appointment of John E. Blachaniec to the newly-created position of director of personal lines sales for the private client group in Chicago. Blachaniec will assume the...

Houston General to Enter Illinois Personal Insurance Market

Apr 10 2007 // Houston General Insurance Exchange announced that it will begin offering personal lines products – including coverage for automobiles, homes, condominiums, watercraft and personal liability – to Illinois...

Mich. Burns & Wilcox Promotes James Griffith to Director, Personal Lines

Apr 2 2007 // Burns & Wilcox has announced that James Griffith has been promoted to director of personal lines for the specialty insurance company. He is responsible for the growth and profitability of personal lines in partnership...

Three ways to bag more personal lines sales

Mar 26 2007 // The Post Office isn’t the only way to deliver insurance marketing materials. Inserts, e-mails, Web site downloads, and hand delivery are some of the other options that are available. The first three methods are...

Three ways to bag more personal lines sales

Mar 26 2007 // The Post Office isn’t the only way to deliver insurance marketing materials. Inserts, e-mails, Web site downloads, and hand delivery are some of the other options that are available. The first three methods are...

Hanover’s New Connections Home Completes Personal Lines Redesign

Mar 22 2007 // The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc.has launched Connections Home, a new homeowners insurance product designed to make it easier for agents to sell and retain more business by providing a total account solution. Connections...

Ohio Grange Realigns Personal Lines Division, Adds Staff

Mar 16 2007 // Grange Insurance recently announced that it has realigned its personal lines division by naming two regional personal lines presidents. Barry Hunlock has been named regional personal lines president for Illinois, Michigan,...

Ind. Missing Computer Disc with Personal Insurance Info Found

Mar 16 2007 // A missing compact disc containing unprotected personal data for 75,000 Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield members was recovered four days after the insurer began warning customers about potential privacy violations. The disc,...

A.M. Best likes what it sees in property/casualty personal lines segment

Mar 12 2007 // Rating and industry analysts at A.M. Best are maintaining their stable outlook for the personal lines property/casualty segment in 2007 based on what they see as this sector’s continued favorable risk-adjusted...

J.M. Wilson Agency Adds Personal Lines Manager in Mich.

Mar 8 2007 // Managing General Agency J.M. Wilson has announced that it has added Wendy Loveless as manager in its Personal Lines department in their Portage, Mich. location. Loveless will oversee the day-to-day operations of the...

Unitrin Acquiring Personal Lines Insurer Merastar for $45 Million

Mar 5 2007 // Unitrin, Inc. reports that its subsidiary, Trinity Universal Insurance Co., is buying Merastar Insurance Co. certain of its affiliates in a cash transaction valued at approximately $45 million. Merastar Insurance is based...

A.M. Best Likes What It Sees In P/C Personal Lines Segment

Mar 1 2007 // Rating and industry analysts at A.M. Best are maintaining their stable outlook for the personal lines property/casualty segment in 2007 based on what they see as this sector’s continued favorable risk-adjusted...

Houston General Expanding into Pa., Ind. Personal Lines Markets

Feb 22 2007 // Independent insurance agents in Pennsylvania and Indiana will soon have a new option. Houston General Insurance Exchange announced that it will offer personal lines products – including coverage for automobiles,...

The Hartford, AARP Renew Personal Lines Pact Until 2020

Feb 8 2007 // The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. announced an extension of its agreement with the AARP (American Association of Retired Persons) under which the insurer will continue to offer the group’s nearly 38 million...

Colorado Casualty Celebrates 25 Years, Expands Personal Lines in West

Jan 8 2007 // Colorado Casualty, a member of Liberty Mutual Group, recently hosted a 25th anniversary celebration with 140 employees and more than 100 appointed agents in attendance. The company also announced it would be expanding its...