Nebraska News

Travelers: Six More States Eligible for Hybrid Auto Discount

Travelers personal lines, a member of St. Paul Travelers, has announced it now offers its 10 percent discount on auto insurance for hybrid drivers in Alabama, Mississippi, Nevada, Kansas, Tennessee and South Carolina. Travelers launched its discount for hybrid owners …

New Markets

Community Banks Nuts & Bolts: OneBeacon Insurance, working with select independent insurance agents, has developed a solution for the increasingly complex risks of community banks through a combination of coverages designed specifically for these financial institutions and broader property and …

New Markets

Contractors Construction LiabilityNuts & Bolts: Lincoln Insurance Company (A.M. Best’s “A-” Rated) increases its role in the marketplace by teaming with First Capital Group’s Midwest Contractors Construction Program. The program is available in Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa Oklahoma, Missouri, …

Regulators Establish Task Force on Climate Change

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) voted unanimously last week at its quarterly meeting in Orlando, Fla., to establish a task force to examine the impact of climate change on the U.S. insurance industry and on insurance consumers. The …

Liability Issues Push Cheerleading Groups to Ban Stunts in Mo.

A Southern Illinois University cheerleading accident has spurred on the group that sets standards at the school to call for new restrictions on the types of stunts cheerleaders perform. The fall from a 15 foot human pyramid tower taken by …

Lincoln General, First Capital Create New Contractors Construction Program

Lincoln General Insurance Company has teamed up with First Capital Group’s Midwest Contractors Construction Program. The program is available in Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Minnesota, Arkansas and Nebraska. First Capital Group’s Illinois Construction Division serves as …

University of Wyoming Offers Workshop to Help Reduce Agricultural Risk

Workshops focusing on energy crops, manure and irrigation management, and risk management and insurance products will be offered this month to producers in Pine Bluffs, Casper, Riverton and Powell, Wyo. The programs, sponsored by the University of Wyoming Cooperative Extension …

NCOIL Resolution Supports State Regulation of Insurance

The preservation of state regulation of insurance and a multi-pronged approach to disaster management was outlined by the National Conference of Insurance Legislators and approved as amended on Friday by the Property and Casualty Insurance Committee during the National Conference …

Travelers Offers Hybrid Owners 10% Auto Discount

Travelers personal lines, a member of St. Paul Travelers, now offers hybrid-driving Americans a 10 percent discount on auto insurance. Travelers made the discount available in 27 states with plans to roll it out in most remaining states in the …

When the nonprofit insurer is itself a nonprofit

Over the years, many a vexed property casualty insurance company executive has joked about his firm being a nonprofit, blaming pricing regulation, market cycles, high loss ratios, low investment income or some combination of these forces for erasing net gain. …