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By Bryant Rousseau, PropertyCasualty360.com |
April 20, 2012
When people think of the work done at insurance companies, they probably picture actuaries and underwriters sitting at desks and crunching numbers.
But at some insurers, research labs, staffed by highly trained scientists and engineers, play a vital if rarely seen role in discovering ways to reduce losses caused by...
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By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com |
March 7, 2012
The mutual insurance company paid a record $1.2 billion in catastrophe claims during 2011, mostly from Midwestern wind and hail storms in April and May.
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By Phil Gusman, PropertyCasualty360.com |
December 14, 2011
The Federal Deposit Insurance Company has proposed a rule clarifying that a mutual insurance holding company qualifies as an “insurance company” under the Dodd-Frank act, and thus is not subject to the FDIC’s orderly liquidation authority.
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By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com |
December 1, 2011
Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., defended the Dodd-Frank Act, saying Repubicans critical of the bill acknowledged it was necessary.
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By Laura Mazzuca Toops, PropertyCasualty360.com |
December 1, 2011
Agents continue to weigh in on whether they are best served by one or two national trade associations. What do you think?
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By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com |
November 16, 2011
Dodd-Frank Act provisions should be “clarified” to ensure that federal regulators do not impose conflicting or duplicative regulatory requirements, an executive of a property and casualty insurer tells Congress today.
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By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com |
November 11, 2011
A House subcommittee will hold a hearing Wednesday and the main subject will be three pieces of legislation sought by state regulators seeking to severely roll back federal authority to oversee insurance companies gained in the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial services reform law.
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By Laura Mazzuca Toops, PropertyCasualty360.com |
November 3, 2011
Two state agent associations are quitting the PIA in 2012. Do agents really need representation in both PIA and IIABA?
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By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com |
September 22, 2011
Effective leadership within the membership of the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies will promote increased success for the association and its members, says the association’s new chairman.
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By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com |
September 16, 2011
Ruud H. Bosman, vice chairman of business property insurer FM Global, will retire in November after 40 years with the company where he worked his entire career.
