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By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com |
May 25, 2012
Two prognosticators of the 2012 Atlantic-hurricane season are standing pat on their previously-released outlooks but the U.S. is “overdue” for a landfall.
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By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com |
May 25, 2012
The Non-Admitted Insurance Multi-State Agreement has adopted the revenue-sharing agreement of a rival compact in an apparent effort to jumpstart creation of a uniform system to implement a premium-tax-sharing component of the federal surplus-lines reform law.
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By Reuters |
May 24, 2012
The 2012 Atlantic hurricane season will be "near normal" with nine to 15 tropical storms and four to eight of those will strengthen into hurricanes, the U.S. government weather agency predicted on Thursday.
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By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com |
May 21, 2012
Tropical Storm Alberto made an early-season appearance in the Atlantic basin over the weekend forming off the Carolina coast on Saturday, but forecasters say the storm poses no threat to land.
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By Bonnie Cavanaugh |
May 21, 2012
Creating best practices in Workers’ Comp for many insurers now means going beyond the basics, digging deep into their claims history, and “making manufacturing better at manufacturing Workers’ Comp.”
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By Anya Khalamayzer, PropertyCasualty360.com |
May 14, 2012
As the health-care industry anticipates a shortage of professionals and prepares for the uncertainties of government reform, risk managers in this sector discuss some of the challenges that lie ahead.
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By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com |
May 11, 2012
The Heartland Institute has agreed to split off its insurance-research unit effective May 31.
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By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com |
May 11, 2012
The Risk Management Solutions Version 11 catastrophe model is shifting rates higher, and causing some risks to move from the admitted market back to excess and surplus lines carriers, but a leader of a managing general agent group cited concerns with the model’s impact on how insurers underwrite risks.
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By Phil Gusman, PropertyCasualty360.com |
May 11, 2012
Leading U.S. homeowners insurers recorded combined ratios well over 100 in 2011 due mainly to storms throughout the year, according to an SNL Insurance analysis.
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By Ben Berkowitz, Reuters |
May 11, 2012
As anyone in the United States with a TV or Internet connection probably knows, lawyers want you if you've been exposed to asbestos, and they're paying to get you.