National Underwriter P&C September 3, 2012
Cover Story
In-School Retention
Schools struggle to overcome budget shortfalls by slicing and dicing their insurance needs.
Cover Story
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Chartering Success
Growth opportunity in the school-insurance arena does exist, and the experts say it’s in charter schools.
Special Report
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XL: Rates Up, But Competition Is Fierce as Challenges Both Wet & Dry Await
Reinsurers’ earnings rebounded during the first half of 2012, a function of relatively low catastrophe losses so far this year and higher rates in the aftermath of the colossal natural-catastrophe losses that pounded the insurance industry in 2011, according to John Welch, president of XL Re America Inc.
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Allianz Re Asia Pacific: Monitoring Maximum Exposure in Cat-Prone Regions
The spate of natural catastrophes last year—which caused more than $100 billion of insured damage—“has fundamentally impacted the reinsurance industry’s perception of risk,” says Karl-Heinz Jung, CEO of Allianz Re Asia Pacific.
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Mitigating Hurricane Losses: 7 Steps to Aid in Catastrophe Recovery
With forecasters predicting slightly below-average activity for the remainder of the Atlantic hurricane season, relief is tempered by two truths: Some 90 percent of all major hurricane activity typically occurs after August 1. And just one significant land-falling hurricane, which is likely even in a “light” season, can be devastating....
News
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Industry Groups, Observers to FIO: Leave Private Reinsurers Alone
The Federal Insurance Office (FIO) is being told the government should support the private reinsurance market and think long and hard before creating any government backstop that would alter the current system.
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Former Florida Insurance Commissioner Recalls Hurricane Andrew’s Game-Changing Impact
It was the storm no one thought—or no one remembered—could happen.
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Key Ingredients of Four Successful Agency Websites
What makes a successful website? Jeff Yates, executive director of the Agents Council for Technology, says a site should possess several key traits.
Opinion
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Ash Gupta: American Express’ Chief Risk Officer on Fraud, Innovation in Retail-Payment Services
Although his concerns are not largely related to insurance issues, NU thought it would be interesting to take a look at the issues Ash Gupta wrestles with as the top risk-management executive at one of the world’s best-known financial-services firms.
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To Avoid Competing on Price, Insurance Marketers Should Focus on Value
Marketers of insurance face two challenging problems.
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