Resources

33 Resources for

property insurance

Subscribe to this listing via:
RSS
Email

BNET Resources

2002 Legislative Forecast: Canada: This article is on the terrorism reinsurance legislation in Canada. The proposed terrorism reinsurance legislation could include a definition of terrorist acts that would not only define the scope of the act, but also clarify the distinction between terrorist acts and war risk. Legislation would also determine whether or not...; Tags: Homeland security, terrorism, property insurance, Canada, compensation, worker; White papers
Forty Years of Involuntary Property Insurance Markets in the U.S: The article traces the history and development of the FAIR and beach plans. It reports on operating philosophy as well as procedures and practices in place in the involuntary property markets today. It reports mixed success in effort to depopulate the plans. In addition, it provides some indication of the...; Tags: Insurance, property insurance; White papers
Releases Of Interest In Property Insurance Policy: Use this template to inform and declare the release of interests in property insurance policy.; Tags: Insurance, property insurance; Tools & templates 2008-01-01
Property Insurance's Uneven Price Blip: After two years of cut-rate prices, in 2005 hurricanes inflicted an estimated $58 billion in losses on the insurance industry and began prompting carriers to charge a good deal more for property insurance. According to a survey, in the fourth quarter of 2005, commercial property-insurance buyers faced a median price...; Tags: Insurance, CFO Publishing Corp., corporate insurance, property insurance, Risk Manager, survey; White papers 2006-02-09
Recent Developments in Property Insurance Law: Courts continue to analyze interesting first-party property issues arising out of the September 11, 2001, tragedy. In particular, over the last year courts have reached important decisions relating to the period of restoration and to business interruption issues. This article reviews the recent changes made to the property insurance laws...; Tags: Insurance, property insurance; White papers 2005-04-11

A Modern Architecture for Residential Property Insurance Ratemaking: This paper argues that obsolete rating architecture is a cause of decades of documented poor financial performance of residential property insurance products. Improving rating efficiency and equity through modernization of rating and statistical plans is critical to the continued viability of the products. The transition from indivisible to divisible base...; Tags: Insurance, Casualty Actuarial Society, property insurance, equity, financial; White papers 2005-02-21
Property Insurance Underwriting in the Internet Age ?: The paper looks at some of the factors that generally affect the property insurance underwriting profitability of an insurance company. In the Internet Age, one can get specific and look at property insurance, and then again get more specific and look at property insurance for a warehouse, and then get...; Tags: property insurance, insurance, Internet, tool; White papers 2004-11-29
J.D. Power and Associates Reports: Nearly Twice as Many Long-Term Homeowners Are Shopping for Property Insurance, Despite the Fact That Premiums Have Started to Stabilize: This J.D. Power and Associates 2004 National Homeowners Insurance Study reports that despite the fact that homeowners insurance premiums have largely stabilized around the country and in some markets may even be falling, a record number of long-term homeowners indicate they shopped for a new insurer in the past year.; Tags: Insurance, J.D. Power Associates, homeowner, property insurance; White papers 2004-09-30
The Property Insurance Market: 2004 Mid-Year Review: Change remains the most constant aspect of the property insurance market as this report examines the mid-year market's status. From the continuously softening industry standards of the closing years of the 20th century, morphing into the stricter standards at the opening of the 21st, followed by 9/11, which created one...; Tags: Insurance, property insurance, 9/11 commission, industry standard, industry; White papers 2004-07-01
Terms and Conditions in a Harder Property Insurance Market: Coinsurance, Blanket Insurance and More: This paper identifies specifics as to how terms and conditions had become soft; further the paper identifies changes in terms and conditions in the post 9/11 harder market environment. The methodology employed is interview of brokers and underwriters in the Chicago insurance market place, and much of what is reported...; Tags: Financial Planning, insurance, property insurance, environment; White papers 2004-01-01
California Appellate Court Rules That Property Insurance Policy Does Not Cover Loss Of Computer Data: A California intermediate appellate court has ruled that a first party property insurance policy does not cover the loss of computer data resulting from a computer system “crash.” The appellate court affirmed a trial court’s judgment that no coverage exists where a computer data loss is unaccompanied by the destruction...; Tags: Insurance, PRODUCTIVITY, policyholder, property insurance, appellate court, insurance company, California, computer, software; White papers 2003-12-01
Some Popular Misconceptions About Property Insurance: Property insurance carried by shopping center landlords is designed to provide, the amount of money required by the landlord to restore the common area and building improvements in compliance with all codes and regulations, and to replace up to one year of abated effective rent pending the resumption of tenant...; Tags: Insurance, Reed Elsevier Inc., property insurance, tenant, misconception, compensation, compliance; White papers 2003-11-06
Nuclear Risk in Property Insurance and Limitations of Insurability: The international insurance industry has been screening its existing terms and conditions for potentially ruinous risks and has identified certain weak points. The report believes that one of the most perilous shortcomings in traditional property insurance and reinsurance concerns inadequate nuclear risk exclusions. Insurance portfolios have always been exposed to...; Tags: Financial Planning, Swiss Reinsurance Co., property insurance, insurance, reinsurance, financial; White papers 2003-10-29
Gauging The Weather: For millennia, people have understood that seasons for tropical storms, blizzards, and other weather events come and go with predictable regularity. What people have not known, until recently, was whether a coming season was likely to be more or less stormy than previous ones. Drawing on correlations between various natural...; Tags: Pricing, Financial Planning, property insurance, reinsurance, insurance, scientist, pricing strategy, carrier, income; White papers 2003-07-01
Property Insurance And The Attack On The U.S.: Although one of the immediate issues raised after the attacks on Manhattan and the Pentagon was whether the attacks could be considered “war” for the purposes of insurance coverage, another significant question will be the number of occurrences arising from those events, and how that will affect coverage. Disputes over...; Tags: property insurance, attack, insurance; White papers 2003-01-01
First Party Property Insurance Coverage For Mold Damage: Does It Exist When The Policy Excludes Loss Caused by Mold?: Most property insurance policies expressly exclude coverage for loss caused by mold and fungus. While this exclusion may appear to express a clear intent that mold and fungus losses will not be insured, the coverage determination is often not nearly that simple. Instead, an analysis of what caused the mold,...; Tags: Insurance, property insurance, exclusion, analysis; White papers 2003-01-01
The Evolution Of Collapse Coverage: Collapse coverage, as provided in standard property insurance forms, underwent significant revision in the 1980s and again in the late 1990s. Two events precipitated the reexamination and ultimately the rewording of policy language. They were the application of the doctrine of concurrent causation to property insurance, and a series of...; Tags: Insurance, property insurance; White papers 2003-01-01
State of the (Healthcare) Property Insurance Market: The article is about property insurance market. It describes the situation of market place before 2001, which make effect on rates and premium, introduces reinsurance policies. It describes the points included for the terrorism insurance, blanket limit. At the end it defines the insurers result like continuing poor underwriting results,...; Tags: Insurance, Aon Corp., property insurance, reinsurance, terrorism insurance, insurance company, terrorism, health care; White papers 2003-01-01
Property Insurance Claims: Negotiating Unfamiliar Terrain: Just having insurance coverage in place does not guarantee that one’s loss will be fully reimbursed. A final settlement can be affected by the policyholder’s actions from the moment the loss occurs. From securing the loss site and notifying the insurer to agreeing on the final settlement, the policyholder needs...; Tags: Litigation, property insurance, policyholder, settlement, settlement negotiation, insurance; White papers 2003-01-01
Examination Under Oath: "Not Just Another Deposition": While property insurance policies differ somewhat amongst insurers, most policy forms provide the insurer with a right to demand the "Examination Under Oath" ("EUO") of its insured, and a right to demand records and documents in support of the presented claim. This article states that an examination under oath, effectively...; Tags: Insurance, insurance company, property insurance; White papers 2003-01-01