Mark your calendars! NU provides highlights of some upcoming specialty market insurance events, including the Target Market Program Administrators Midyear Meeting in Boston and NAPSLO’s upcoming webinar on NRRA implications.

PartnerRe says it expects approximately $500 million in losses, pre-tax and net of retrocession and reinstatement premiums, from the March 11 Japan earthquake and tsunami.

O.L. Anderson is new regional business development executive at North American Risk Services.

Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Joseph G. Murphy says his office has reached an agreement with the state’s Workers’ Compensation Rating and Inspecting Bureau and the Attorney General’s Office to hold workers’ comp. rates steady until at least September 2012.

Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Joseph G. Murphy says his office has reached an agreement with the state’s Workers’ Compensation Rating and Inspecting Bureau and the Attorney General’s Office to hold workers’ comp. rates steady until at least September 2012.

A.M. Best Co. has revised The Hartford Financial Services Group’s outlook to stable from negative, reflecting the “financial strength and creditworthiness” of the company’s property and casualty and life operating companies.

Aon Benfield launched what it says is the first storm-surge model for Germany to help reinsurers and insurers quantify risk in an “underdeveloped line of coverage.”

Aon Benfield launched what it says is the first storm-surge model for Germany to help reinsurers and insurers quantify risk in an “underdeveloped line of coverage.”