Latest Travelers Headlines

All the headlines from our Travelers Topic Page, ordered by recency.

Travelers Introduces New D&O Liability Policy

Dec 6 2002 // Travelers Bond, a division of Travelers Property Casualty Corp. has unveiled Broad Form PLUS+(SM), a new policy that offers personal asset protection for directors and officers when primary coverage and/or indemnification...

Travelers Unveils Application for Risk Managers to Receive, Access Claim Reporting Materials Electronically

Dec 4 2002 // Travelers Property Casualty has announced its Web-based application that allows risk managers to receive and access claim reporting materials electronically. Large customers can now have a single, customized site that...

S&P’s Revises Travelers PC Outlook

Nov 28 2002 // Standard & Poor’s has affirmed its ‘A-‘ counterparty credit and senior debt ratings on Travelers Property Casualty Corp. and its ‘AA-‘ counterparty credit and financial strength ratings...

Travelers Makes Real-Time Policy Available Through Applied Systems Agency Management Systems

Nov 27 2002 // Travelers Property Casualty has made available real-time policy view to independent commercial insurance agents and brokers directly through their Applied Systems agency management systems. The capability, called...

A.M. Best Reports Ratings for Travelers Group Unaffected

Oct 17 2002 // A.M. Best Co. said the A++ (Superior) financial strength rating of the Travelers Property Casualty Pool (Hartford, Conn.), the financial strength ratings of the other Travelers Property Casualty Group members, the debt...

2001 Market Share For Insurers in Texas

Oct 14 2002 // The 2001 premium and loss data for Texas verifies everything you heard from the insurance companies — it was a really bad year. Here are the highlights in review: • Texas accounts for 7 percent of the national premium...

Travelers Unveils Customized Electronic Claim Reporting Kit

Oct 2 2002 // Travelers Property Casualty has unveiled its Web-based application that allows risk managers to receive and access claim reporting materials electronically. Large customers can now have a single, customized site that...

Travelers Unveils Electronic Claim Notification for Personal, Small Business Agencies

Oct 1 2002 // Travelers Property Casualty is now providing its independent agents with online, real-time information on the opening and closing of small business and personal claims. Electronic Claim Notification, or ECN, allows agents...

SAFECO, Travelers, Harleysville Garner IIABA’s Best Practices Award of Excellence

Sep 26 2002 // SAFECO, Travelers and Harleysville were recognized by the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA) for their efforts in promoting and marketing the tools, seminars and philosophies of the...

Travelers Property Casualty Authorizes $500M Share Repurchase

Sep 26 2002 // Travelers Property Casualty Corp. announced that its Board of Directors authorized the company to spend up to $500 million for the repurchase of its Class A and Class B common stock. The repurchases may be made from time...

WTC Claims Dispute, $7.1 Billion at Stake

Sep 2 2002 // Despite recent court ordered settlement procedures, the legal dispute pitting Swiss Re and 21 other insurance companies against Silverstein Properties, the master leaseholder on the twin towers of the World Trade Center,...

Gulf Rated ‘A+’

Sep 2 2002 // A.M. Best Co. has assigned a financial strength rating of “A+” (Superior) to the re-established Gulf Insurance Group (New York), and removed from under review the rating of six companies, which were previously...

WTC Claims Dispute, $7.1 Billion at Stake

Sep 2 2002 // Despite recent court ordered settlement procedures, the legal dispute pitting Swiss Re and 21 other insurance companies against Silverstein Properties, the master leaseholder on the twin towers of the World Trade Center,...

Gulf Rated ‘A+’

Sep 2 2002 // A.M. Best Co. has assigned a financial strength rating of “A+” (Superior) to the re-established Gulf Insurance Group, and removed from under review the rating of six companies, which were previously part of the...

Travelers Furnishes New CD To Construction Clients For One-Stop Risk Management

Aug 27 2002 // Travelers Property Casualty announced a new version of its “Construction Risk Management Tool Kit” CD-ROM, designed to help improve contractor clients’ loss experience. “We believe it to be one of...

Travelers Property Casualty Corp. Spin-Off Completed

Aug 22 2002 // Travelers Property Casualty Corp. announced that Citigroup has completed the spin-off of Travelers Property Casualty by distributing 219,050,000 shares of Travelers class A common stock and 450,050,000 shares of Travelers...

Travelers Property Casualty Chairman Responds to Inclusion in S&P’s Index

Aug 16 2002 // Travelers Property & Casualty will have its class B shares included in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index. Travelers Property Casualty Chairman and CEO Robert Lipp, noted “I am very pleased that the hard...

XML Provides the Missing Link for SEMCI

Aug 13 2002 // Agents have faced the problem ever since insurance companies first introduced applications. Each company had its own form, so the agent who wanted to submit the same account to several underwriters had to write the same...

Travelers & PCs

Jul 22 2002 // Nuts & Bolts: Safeware, the Insurance Agency Inc., of Columbus, Ohio, launched a new product, Global Insurance To Go, to insure travelers and their personal computer and other portable business equipment. It provides...

Travelers Reports Improved 2ndQ Income from Last Year

Jul 18 2002 // Travelers Property Casualty Corp. reported that operating income increased 14 percent over the prior year quarter to $356.8 million or $0.36 per share compared to $314.3 million or $0.31 per share for the prior year...