The Hanover News

How The Hanover Is Investing in Digital Tools for Agents, Customers

As insurers embrace insurtech in multiple ways, The Hanover Insurance Group’s Richard Lavey offers some advice: Not everything works as initially envisioned, and that’s OK. “‘If you build it, they will come’ is not necessarily how this plays out,” explains …

New Hanover Prestige Brand Targets High-Value Personal Lines Market

The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. has launched Hanover Prestige – a high-value personal lines market for home, auto and condominiums. Hanover Prestige offers insurance protection, high-quality care and service, along with flexibility and choice for customers with broader asset protection …

The Hanover, Chaucer Form Reinsurance Sidecar to Tap 3rd Party Capital

The Hanover Insurance Group Inc. announced that Chaucer, the company’s international specialty insurance group, has sponsored the formation of a reinsurance sidecar to provide collateralized capacity for Chaucer Syndicate 1084’s global property reinsurance portfolio in 2018. Bermuda-based Thopas Re Ltd., …

The Hanover Expands BOP for Small Businesses, Increases Coverage Limits

The Hanover Insurance Group demonstrates further commitment to supporting small businesses with significant enhancements to its business owner’s policy (BOP) base form and product offerings, adding coverages and endorsements, introducing equipment breakdown protection, and increasing limits. The company has expanded …

The Hanover Enhances Builders Risk Coverage

The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. has enhanced its Hanover Builders Risk insurance coverage forms to offer more flexible, comprehensive coverages that better meet the needs of construction businesses nationwide. Hanover Builders Risk forms can be used for a variety of …

The Hanover Says It Is Committed to Oklahoma

The Hanover Insurance Group does a lot of business in Oklahoma and plans to keep it that way. Responding to an Insurance Journal article that inaccurately reported the company was pulling out of the state, The Hanover said that was …

Hanover Insurance Estimates $120-140M Net Loss From Sandy

The Hanover Insurance Group Inc. announced its preliminary loss estimate from Superstorm Sandy. The Worcester, Mass.-based insurer said it currently estimates the net after-tax earnings impact of the storm to be in the range of $120 to $140 million. Based …

Ratings Recap: Farmers Mutual (NZ), Lloyd’s Syndicate 1084, Pacific Indemnity, Caribbean Alliance

A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘A’ (Excellent) and issuer credit rating of “a” of the New Zealand-based Farmers’ Mutual Group (FMG) and FMG Insurance Limited (FMGIL). The outlook for all of the ratings is stable. …

Best Affirms Ratings of The Hanover Insurance Group and Subs

A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘A’ (Excellent) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) of “a” of the subsidiaries of the parent holding company, The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. (THG), collectively referred to as The Hanover …

Study: Access to Local Underwriters Critical for Small Commercial CSRs

At a time when many insurance carriers are centralizing their underwriting models and interacting more through technology, a recent survey has found that agency small commercial customer service representatives and account managers still find direct access to local underwriters critical …