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• ISO Offers Personal Auto Rating Solution

  By Staff Writer  |  April 10, 2013

  ISO has launched the ISO Advanced Rating Toolkit for personal auto, a bundled offering of ISO's pricing refinement tools.

• Insurity Expands Core System, ISO Presence with Purchase of AQS

  By Staff Writer  |  March 5, 2013

  Insurity, Inc., a provider of core insurance processing software and services, announces its acquisition of insurance software firm AQS, Inc. With Insurity absorbing the assets of AQS, including the vendor’s unique relationship with ISO, Insurity can now offer more value to existing Insurity and AQS clients as well as the...

• Northeast Winter Storm Could Dump Piles of Claims on Insurers

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  February 8, 2013

  The Northeast from Maine to Virginia, as far west as the Great Lakes, is prepping for a winter mix of snow, ice and rain with high winds, blizzard concerns and dangerous traveling conditions.

• Working in the Niche PAS Market

  By Robert Regis Hyle, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  February 1, 2013

  An insurance carrier that writes approximately $150 million in premium is by no means considered a large insurer, but companies of that size—including Pennsylvania Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Company (PLM)—often operate in niche markets.

• Steady As She Goes

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  January 14, 2013

  Over and over again, one word prevails in discussions about rate increases in 2013: modest.

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  PLM Carves Out a Niche

  By Robert Regis Hyle, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  January 3, 2013

  An insurance carrier that writes approximately $150 million in premium is by no means considered a large insurer, but companies of that size—including Pennsylvania Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Company (PLM)—often operate in niche markets.

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  P&C Net Income Surges in First Half, but Industry Shouldn't Celebrate Just Yet

  By Phil Gusman, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  October 4, 2012

  Property and casualty insurers saw their first-half net income climb collectively by over 245 percent in 2012 compared to the prior year, as the industry benefited from premium growth and a sharp drop in catastrophe losses, but experts offered mixed opinions on the larger meaning of the figures.

• ISO, Polk Integrate ISO Risk Analyzer Symbols within VIN Decoding Products

  By Staff Writer  |  July 30, 2012

  ISO and Polk announces that Polk now offers ISO Risk Analyzer personal auto symbols for use in its VIN decoding products on behalf of its insurer, MGA, and agent customers throughout the United States.

• Emerging Demand: Second-Tier Supply Chain Cover

  By Bonnie Cavanaugh  |  May 3, 2012

  An informal poll of Manufacturing insurance pros reveals the top risk concerns of insureds, and just how intertwined the exposures in this market can be.

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  The Week in Quotes

  By Staff Writers  |  April 20, 2012

  I.I.I. President Robert Hartwig on industry surplus, Brown & Brown Chairman and acting President and CEO J. Hyatt Brown on the state of the market, and more.

• After a Rough 2011 for P&C, KBW Reports a Positive Kickoff to 2012

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  April 20, 2012

  The U.S. P&C industry in 2011 posted its worst combined ratio since 2001—and net income dropped more than 45 percent, according to a joint analysis conducted by three industry groups. But a separate report points to more profitable results in Q1 2012.

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  Cats Drive Highest U.S. P&C Year-End Combined Ratio Since 2001

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  April 17, 2012

  The 108.2 combined ratio posted by the private property and casualty industry in the U.S. was the worst since 2001.

• U.S. P&C 2011 9 Mo. Net Income Drops Sharply; Combined Ratio Worst Since 2001

  By Phil Gusman, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  January 2, 2012

  The U.S. property and casualty insurance industry saw its net income after taxes fall to just under $8 billion for the first nine months of 2011, compared to net income just over $27 billion for the same period in 2010, according to a report by ISO, the Property Casualty Insurers...

• QuickFill Support from Edgewater Expands Alliance With ISO

  By Staff Writer  |  November 2, 2011

  Edgewater Technology, Inc., and ISO are building on their long-standing relationship to offer carriers products and integration services. The two companies formed a strategic alliance to provide implementation and integration services for QuickFill, ISO's data prefill product.

• ISO Introduces New Tools for Automating Rating Service

  By Staff Writer  |  October 12, 2011

  ISO announces the availability of newly formatted algorithm files to accompany ISO Rating Service and ISO Electronic Rating Content. The rating data and the rules for acting upon the rating data are now in formats that can be uploaded to a policy-administration system.

• Verisk Announces Personal Auto Module for ISO Risk Analyzer

  By Staff Writer  |  October 3, 2011

  Verisk Analytics announces a new addition to the ISO Risk Analyzer suite of predictive modeling tools for more accurate pricing of physical damage coverages for personal autos.