Latest Property Headlines
All the headlines from our Property Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Equipment Breakdown Coverage Now Offered in Homeowners Program
Feb 22 2007 // The American Association of Insurance Services (AAIS) is filing two new equipment breakdown coverage options for use with its revised homeowners forms. The endorsements are currently being filed and will take effect in...
AIG Environmental to Offer Property Insurance
Feb 20 2007 // AIG Environmental, a division of the property and casualty subsidiaries of American International Group, Inc. (AIG), introduced AIG Environmental Property, an insurance facility designed to enable AIG Environmental to...
Miss. AG Hood Attacks State Farm as ‘Robber Baron’
Feb 16 2007 // In a second press conference in as many days, Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood came out fighting against a recent decision by State Farm Insurance Co. to stop writing new home and commercial property policies in the...
Insurance Journal-Demotech Report Identifies 139 Super Regional P/C Insurers
Feb 14 2007 // Hoping to spark a discussion of so-called “super regional” insurance carriers, Insurance Journal magazine (Feb. 12 issue) this week is publishing its first list of Super Regional Property Casualty Insurers™,...
Best Assigns Ironshore ‘A-‘ Rating
Feb 13 2007 // A.M. Best Co. has assigned a financial strength rating (FSR) of “A-” (Excellent) and an issuer credit rating (ICR) of “a-” to Bermuda-based Ironshore Insurance Ltd. Concurrently, Best assigned an...
Mild-mannered report
Feb 12 2007 // If some politicians can be accused of engaging in “fuzzy” math, some property/casualty insurers might be said to practice “fuzzy” marketing. They call themselves Super Regionals but everyone has a...
Flood Insurance: FEMA resources offer better ways to serve clients
Feb 12 2007 // As we are well aware, flooding caused by hurricanes and tropical storms can wreak havoc along the Eastern Seaboard and Gulf Coast from June through November. What many fail to realize, however, is that flood risk is not...
Mild-mannered report
Feb 12 2007 // If some politicians can be accused of engaging in “fuzzy” math, some property/casualty insurers might be said to practice “fuzzy” marketing. They call themselves Super Regionals but everyone has a...
Commercial clients ‘swallow a bitter pill’ when it comes to cat coverage
Feb 12 2007 // When it comes to property catastrophe insurance coverage, many commercial clients are being forced to swallow a bitter pill in the form of steep prices, new limits on policies, higher deductibles and a shortage in the...
It Figures
Feb 12 2007 // 122 The number of levees nationwide that are at risk for failing, according to the Army Corps of Engineers. Twenty-seven states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico had threatened levees, but only two had more than a...
Mild-mannered report
Feb 12 2007 // If some politicians can be accused of engaging in “fuzzy” math, some property/casualty insurers might be said to practice “fuzzy” marketing. They call themselves Super Regionals but everyone has a...
Mild-mannered report
Feb 12 2007 // If some politicians can be accused of engaging in “fuzzy” math, some property/casualty insurers might be said to practice fuzzy marketing. They call themselves “super regionals,” yet everyone has a...
Mitigating the everyday catastrophe
Feb 12 2007 // Fire, water, hail and wind reel in big losses for business, but many could be prevented The exposures faced by businesses in catastrophe-prone areas have been well-documented post-Katrina and facility owners and managers...
Super Regional P/C Insurers™
Feb 12 2007 // A number of property/casualty insurers call themselves Super Regionals as a way to differentiate themselves in the marketplace. They pride themselves on being not too big and not too small. Big enough for economies of...
Editor’s Note: Mild-mannered report
Feb 11 2007 // If some politicians can be accused of engaging in “fuzzy” math, some property/casualty insurers might be said to practice “fuzzy” marketing. They call themselves Super Regionals but everyone has a...
Editor’s Note: Mild-mannered report
Feb 11 2007 // The companies that made the list are not necessarily superior but they are super in the sense of having the resources to write multiple lines and reach across multiple states. If some politicians can be accused of engaging...
Commercial clients ‘swallow a bitter pill’ when it comes to cat coverage
Feb 11 2007 // When it comes to property catastrophe insurance coverage, many commercial clients are being forced to swallow a bitter pill in the form of steep prices, new limits on policies, higher deductibles and a shortage in the...
It Figures
Feb 11 2007 // 122 The number of levees nationwide that are at risk for failing, according to the Army Corps of Engineers. Twenty-seven states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico had threatened levees, but only two had more than a...
People
Feb 11 2007 // Privately owned insurance and risk management firm, McQueary Henry Bowles Troy L.L.P., has named Mike Rutledge a partner. Rutledge is a vice president in MHBT’s Fort Worth, Texas, office. Rutledge’s career in...
Editor’s Note: Mild-mannered report
Feb 11 2007 // If some politicians can be accused of engaging in “fuzzy” math, some property/casualty insurers might be said to practice fuzzy marketing. They call themselves “super regionals,” yet everyone has a...
