October 5, 2007
A pre-established formulaic predictability model would virtually solve the issue of indeterminable loss cause that was so wide-spread in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, according to South Carolina’s Insurance Regulator. South Carolina Insurance Director Scott Richardson is proposing a loss-allocation …
October 3, 2007
Insurance brokerage and consulting firm Rosenfeld Einstein based in Greenville, S.C., opened a Charlotte, N.C. service office and hired Kathleen H. Thomas to manage the branch and to serve as Employee Benefits Consultant. Thomas joins Rosenfeld Einstein with 11 years …
October 2, 2007
Alabama legislators unveiled a law designed to help the Gulf Coast real estate industry and coastal homeowners hit by high insurance rates but Gov. Bob Riley said there is no current consensus to address it in a special session. The …
October 1, 2007
Consumer spokesmen want a national group of insurance regulators to toughen its conflict-of-interest policies, in part because of questions raised by last month’s resignation of former North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Jim Poolman. Poolman’s departure is the latest instance of a …
September 30, 2007
Alabama, California, Montana, Rhode Island and Washington will begin requiring insurance companies to file annual statement data as part of a growing effort to make market conduct exams more efficient that now includes 30 states. The 30 states require companies …
September 28, 2007
A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘B+’ (Good) and the issuer credit rating (ICR) of “bbb-” of Turkey’s Milli Reasurans Turk Anonim Sirketi (Milli Re) with a positive outlook, which Best said “reflects Milli Re’s maintenance …
September 26, 2007
Whether the nation needs a federal or other governmental program to deal with insurance costs and availability for natural catastrophes in U.S. coastal states was the central question at a public hearing in Mobile, Ala., Monday. Dozens of citizens gathered …
September 25, 2007
Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty touted the need for a comprehensive national plan, and a national catastrophe fund at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) Southeast Zone meeting in Mobile, Ala., Monday. Although the focus of the meeting was …
September 24, 2007
Private Schools (K-12) Nuts & Bolts: Markel Insurance Co. is an admitted, “A” -rated carrier that insures private K-12, Montessori, charter, trade/vocational, business, and correspondence schools. Available coverage includes general liability, umbrella, sexual abuse/molestation, corporal punishment, educators’ liability, sports liability, …
September 24, 2007
Environmental Consultants-Contractors Nuts & Bolts: As part of the comprehensive coverage care suite of products, ELM Insurance Brokers has an addition to its errors and omissions/directors and officers/ employment practices liability/crime and fiduciary suite, environmental liability for consultants and contractors’ …