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- Can Your Business Survive a Natural Disaster?
- More than 30 percent of businesses never reopen their doors after they’ve been closed down by a hurricane, tornado, flood, or other devastating calamity, reports the Insurance Information Institute ( www.iii.org ). This organization, along with More than 30 percent of businesses never reopen their doors after they’ve been closed down by...
- Research articles 2005-11-01
- PACIFIC, ABC JOIN HANDS FOR INTERMEDIATE INSURANCE BUSINESS
- AsiaInfo Services 06-14-2004 Pacific, ABC Join Hands for Intermediate Insurance Business CHINA, Jun 14, 2004 SinoCast via COMTEX -- Nanjing, Wuxi, Hangzhou and Wenzhou are the four cities that have rapid economic development, so the residents AsiaInfo Services ...
- Research articles 2004-06-14
- Liability, property insurance premiums leveling off.(Focus: personal finance and insurance)
- "The picture is a little brighter today than it was a year ago," said Tom Roche of Marsh USA, an insurance agency in Norwalk. Roche describes a "leveling off" in the insurance business, with the general liability and property in "The picture is a...
- Research articles 2003-08-04
- A look at the ISO commercial property insurance program
- IN THE fall of 2000, the Insurance Services Office released a new Commercial Property Insurance Program. The new program, which many insurance companies have begun implementing in the past year, contains extensive changes from prior versions. In this artiIN THE fall of 2000, the Insurance Services Office released a new...
- Research articles 2002-05-01
- AIA funds insurance awareness education plan.(American Insurance Association funds Organization for a New Equity)
- Months after anti-redlining legislation was passed in Massachusetts, an industry trade association has underwritten part of the efforts of a civil rights group to educate lower-income and minority consumers about insurance. The collaboration inv Months after anti-redlining legislation was passed in...
- Research articles 1996-11-25
- Insurers Gearing Property Covers To Risk Appetites.
- Corporate officers have little to worry about in terms of the pricing or availability of property insurance coverage needed to repair or replace buildings and equipment damaged by fire, wind, hail, explosion or natural catastrophes, insurance experts Corporate officers have little to worry about in terms...
- Research articles 1998-10-26
- Wolfram Rohde-Liebenau: risk manager beats the German property insurance cartels.(Interview)
- To some he is a gentleman rebel, to others a rogue. For the history books, Wolfram Rohde-Liebenau is the risk manager who brought down Germany's property insurance cartel - the konsortialkommission, or KOKO. In his modest way, Mr. Rohde-Liebenau will To some he is a gentleman...
- Research articles 1997-11-03
- Property insurance rates down 15%; Market competitive for first time since Sept. 11.(Finance)
- Byline: STEVE DANIELS After two years of steep increases in property insurance rates following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, prices have moved down decisively in recent months, giving businesses some relief. Within the last six months, commerc Byline: STEVE DANIELS ...
- Research articles 2004-07-19
- Time to deal with, not fight, Fair Housing Act. (insurance industry)(Another Perspective)(Column)
- Once again, the U.S. Supreme Court has sent the message that the Federal Fair Housing Act applies to property insurance. It is time for the insurance industry to turn its energies from seeking exemption from federal civil rights laws to complying with Once again, the U.S. Supreme...
- Research articles 1996-03-18
- Insurers hit for being 'nat'l nanny' at hearing. (property and casualty insurance industry's alleged redlining of urban and rural communities)
- ATLANTA - Property insurers must be persuaded or, if necessary, compelled, to explain underwriting and marketing decisions which have had the effect of depriving inner-city and rural communities of dwelling insurance, witnesses before a federal heari ATLANTA - Property insurers must be persuaded or, if necessary,...
- Research articles 1994-10-31
- Fla. probes plans to cut coverage.
- With the start of a new hurricane season less than a month away, Florida State Treasurer and Insurance Commissioner Tom Gallagher has called public hearings to help determine whether four property insurers should be permitted to further reduce their With the start of a new...
- Research articles 1993-05-10
- Late News.(AXIS Specialty Ltd to buy Sheffield Insurance Corp from Aon Corp.; other news briefs on insurerance industry)
- Aon selling P/C unit to AXIS Specialty Aon Corp. is selling its Sheffield Insurance Corp. specialty property/casualty insurance subsidiary to Bermuda-based AXIS Specialty Ltd. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. As part of the deal, Denni Aon selling P/C unit to AXIS...
- Research articles 2002-11-18
- RRG group seeks OK to write property cover; ARRC cites market need.(News)(risk retention groups)
- Byline: JERRY GEISEL WASHINGTON-With insurance rates climbing and coverage availability tightening, a lobbying group is asking federal legislators to allow risk retention groups to fund property risks. The American Risk Retention Coalition, a tr Byline: JERRY GEISEL WASHINGTON-With...
- Research articles 2006-07-24
- Florida balks at assuming cat risk. (catastrophe reinsurance)
- TALLAHASSEE--Faced with a potential $50 billion insured loss if a Class 5 hurricane hits Miami this year, national property insurers have mounted a campaign in the Florida legislature to make the state the ultimate guarantor for hurricane loss. State TALLAHASSEE--Faced with a potential $50 billion insured...
- Research articles 1995-04-24
- Florida seeks property mkt. reforms. (property insurance market)
- Determined to send a clear message to world financial markets that Florida's property insurance market is regaining its stability, the Florida Senate has voted out a package of reforms calling for a geographical freeze on Florida Windstorm Underwrit Determined to send a clear message to...
- Research articles 1997-03-31
- Florida may extend moratorium on cancellations. (property insurance) (Late Breaking News)
- A day after Florida Governor Lawton Chiles expanded the call for a special legislative session, the state Senate passed a bill extending an insurance department moratorium on property insurance cancelations through the end of the 1993 hurricane seaso A day after Florida Governor Lawton Chiles expanded...
- Research articles 1993-05-31
- New Perspectives On Insurance Costs
- Intense insurance market competition and better management controls are driving risk and insurance costs down little by little for U.S. corporations, but administrative costs are starting to creep up. As a result of the losses, property insurance costs have started to increase worldwide, while the cost of other coverages has...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Property Insurance
- The Blackout of 2003 disrupted business, damaged property, and created mass confusion in the Midwestern and northeastern Unites States and parts of Canada. The power grid in North America was compromised by interdependencies and other weaknesses, and while the actual blackout lasted for short time, its impact is still reverberating...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Insurance Coverage for Power Outage Losses
- The article describes that the first step in analyzing property insurance coverage for power outage losses is to determine whether there has been direct physical loss or damage. Indeed, property insurance policies insure only against risks of direct physical loss or damage to property insured under the policy, as this...
- White papers 2001-10-01
- Property: Factory Seconds
- With the price of property insurance going through the roof, some companies come up with creative ways to help hold the line on premiums. With reinsurance backing vanishing after the calamitous events of mid-September, commercial property insurers have raised premiums through the roof. Carriers have slashed coverage limits across wide...
- White papers 2002-01-22
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