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Civil Unrest Leads Aon to Downgrade 37 Countries on Political Risk Map
Apr 25 2012 // Aon Risk Solutions, the global risk management business of Aon plc, has just issued its latest political risk map, which gauges the level of risk for international business in more than 200 countries. Aon said “37...
Elderly Michigan Woman Protests High Home Insurance Bill
Dec 19 2011 // An 83-year-old woman in Michigan says she won’t suffer silently after an insurance company raised her bill from $585 to $4,092. Alice LaDuke lately has been standing outside the home office of Auto-Owners Insurance...
Insurance Too Pricey for Anti-Wall Street Protesters in Duluth, Minnesota
Nov 23 2011 // Anti-Wall Street protesters ignored police orders to get a permit and limit their encampment to one tent in downtown Duluth, Minn. The protesters said the cost of insurance needed for the permit is too high. On Nov. 22...
Occupy Nashville Protesters Sue Governor Over Curfew
Nov 1 2011 // Occupy Nashville protesters are suing Gov. Bill Haslam over a new curfew on the grounds around the Capitol that has been used to dislodge their camp and arrest demonstrators. The lawsuit claims the curfew was created...
Wall Street Protesters Target Health Insurers
Oct 28 2011 // Occupy Wall Street protesters held a speak-out and march in New York City targeting the health insurance industry. Several hundred protesters marched on Wednesday, Oct. 26, to the offices at Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield,...
Hartford Is Latest Site of Wall Street Protest
Oct 11 2011 // The protest movement that began with anti-corporate greed rallies on Wall Street has made its way to Hartford. The “Occupy Hartford” demonstrators camped out this past weekend at the corner of Broad Street and...
Event Cancellation Coverage for UK Riots Rarely Applicable
Aug 11 2011 // “Most of the events cancelled were due to the police being need elsewhere,” said Simon Lyons, contingency underwriter at London-based Sportscover Europe Ltd. He explained that football (soccer) matches, unlike...
ABI Assures UK Business Owners of Insurance Coverage for Riot Losses
Aug 11 2011 // Along with its recap of the applicable provisions of UK law covering damages caused by riots, the Association of British Insurers also issued a special letter to business owners. The ABI expressed its sympathy for those...
ABI Explains UK Riot Coverage; Damages Estimated to Exceed $162 Million
Aug 10 2011 // The Association of British Insurers has issued a set of guidelines and an explanation of the insurance coverage incident to the recent riots in London and other UK cities. The ABI estimates that insured losses and damage...
Britain Burns: Riots Spread through UK Cities
Aug 10 2011 // A wave of violence and looting raged across London and spread to three other major British cities on Tuesday, as authorities struggled to contain the country’s worst unrest since race riots set the capital ablaze in...
ABI Reacts to London Riots; Details of Insurance Coverage
Aug 9 2011 // Nick Starling, Director of General Insurance and Health, of the Association of British Insurers, issued the following statement following the third night of rioting, looting and the massive destruction of property in...
Oklahoma Resident’s Protests Prompt Flood Map Change
Jul 25 2011 // Residents of Lake McAlester in Oklahoma are no longer in a Federal Emergency Management Area flood zone after an uncommon re-mapping of the area. “This is the only area in the state of Oklahoma that has been ever...
New Aon Terrorist Risk Map Includes Mideast, No. Africa Unrest
Jun 8 2011 // Aon’s annual publication of its Terrorist Risk Map has been expanded. Aon said this year’s version features areas where “political violence, strikes, riots, civil war and war threaten the sustainable...
Franchisor Benefits from Unrest in Captive Insurance World
Jun 6 2011 // Ray Spears, Jeff Wilson, and Charles Donaldson in 2007 established GlobalGreen Insurance Agency as the brand name for the franchise network of independent agencies developed and operated by St. Louis, Mo.-based Equity One...
Franchisor Benefits from Unrest in Captive Insurance World
Apr 4 2011 // Ray Spears, Jeff Wilson, and Charles Donaldson in 2007 established GlobalGreen Insurance Agency as the brand name for the franchise network of independent agencies developed and operated by St. Louis, Mo.-based Equity One...
Unrest in Captive Insurance World Benefits the GlobalGreen Agency
Mar 17 2011 // Ray Spears, Jeff Wilson and Charles Donaldson in 2007 established GlobalGreen Insurance Agency as the brand name for the franchise network of independent agencies developed and operated by St. Louis, Mo.-based Equity One...
Lloyd’s Market Association Issues Statement on Middle East Unrest
Mar 3 2011 // The Lloyd’s Market Association has issued the following statement concerning the wave of political protest and demonstration that have been unfolding in the Middle East and North Africa: “Clearly there has been...
S&P Announces Rating Actions in Wake of Bahrain Unrest
Feb 28 2011 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has affirmed its long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on Hannover ReTakaful B.S.C. (Hannover ReTakaful), Trust International...
Aon Warns Companies in Middle East to Plan for More Unrest
Feb 9 2011 // Aon Risk Solutions, the global risk management arm of Aon Corp., is advising companies in the Middle east to “begin planning now for the effects of any potential spread of unrest in the region,” following the...
So. Korea Shipping Firm Re-routes Container Ships due to Egypt Unrest
Feb 1 2011 // South Korea’s Hanjin Shipping was re-routing some of its container vessels due to the unrest in Egypt that has disrupted dry-dock operations at several ports, its chief executive said on Tuesday. Seaborne traffic...
