Plaintiffs Law Firms Positioned In Latin America, Japan
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Plaintiffs Law Firms Positioned In Latin America, Japan Several of the worlds largest law firms have established new branches in major Latin American cities, ...
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Plaintiffs Law Firms Positioned In Latin America, Japan Several of the worlds largest law firms have established new branches in major Latin American cities, ...
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Underwriting Cycle Heads South Again Following a three-year gentle recovery from the 1990s soft market for insurance, analysts observed that prices began to decline again ...
Steven Brostoff
Ergonomics Rules Being RevampedWashington Any new regulation on ergonomic injuries will have to address the concerns expressed by Congress, and avoid repeating the mistakes that ...
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Internet Personal Insurance SalesDominate Youthful Market In 2006, the Internet now accounts for nearly 40 percent of new and renewal transactions and nearly 80 ...
Caroline McDonald
Captives Question Cayman 'Blacklist' PoliciesThe Cayman government, in its successful effort to get the country off a blacklist of money-laundering nations, might have gone too ...
Lisa S. Howard
Equitas Boosts AsbestosReserves By 27 Percent London Editor During the past year, Equitas strengthened undiscounted asbestos reserves, gross of reinsurance, by 1.7 billion ($2.4 ...
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Banks Put P-C Products Into Offerings Many banks have effectively incorporated the distribution of personal lines insurance products of partnering insurance companies into their suites ...
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Mini-catastrophes Cost Insurers $100 Billion Although 2005 was marked by no major catastrophes, there were an unusually large number of both tropical storm and ...
Lisa S. Howard
Tech Concerns Fade Among Global InsurersLondon EditorVienna, Austria The challenge of technology and e-commerce is no longer the most pressing concern facing insurance industry executives ...
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Commercial Rate RegulationFor Middle Market Accounts Moves To Washington Following several years of federal solvency regulation being superimposed on state rate regulation, the threshold ...
Sean F. Mooney
Would Insurers Be Better OffGiving Homeowners Coverage Away?The subject of this column is discounting and how insurers can use it to make a profit. Discounting ...
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Stat Data To Be Abbreviated Several of the larger U.S. p-c companies rallied around a proposal that the National Council on Compensation Insurance and Insurance ...
Peter Porrino
Looking for Reasonable CommercialP-C Returns? Dream OnIn decades past, commercial property-casualty insurers greeted the hardening of the market with relief, confident that the return of ...
Caroline McDonald
Claims Data Standards SoughtA joint claims standard initiative involving the Risk and Insurance Management Society and ACORD will be announced this week designed to improve ...
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Jury Awards Skyrocket in 2005 Class action cases have continued to account for huge dollar settlements and judgments this year, with class actions totaling $100 ...
Steven Brostoff
Reaction Mixed To AIA Federal Charter PlanWashington Editor The property-casualty insurance industry remains sharply divided over state versus federal regulation in the wake of the ...
Robert W. Mitchell
New Distribution Methods Costly: StudyA dramatic shift is afoot in the delivery of insurance products and servicesand higher acquisition costs are fueling a growing movement ...
Caroline McDonald
Insurer Corporate Bond Holdings RisingIn the last five years, the general property-casualty insurer investment trends have moved toward non-treasury issues, said Thomas McDonald, managing director ...
Robert W. Mitchell
Agents Expected To Develop Web PlansInsurance agents may step up Web initiatives as more carriers select alternative distribution channels to move their product, according to ...
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Money Laundering 'Blacklist' The Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development recently identified "serious deficiencies" in Egypt, ...
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Info-gathering Devices Produce Data Flood The smart chips and the satellites to upload the collected data routinely installed in cars, appliances, radios, CD players, phones ...
Caroline McDonald
Holistic Strategies Seen In P-C Investing Traditional investment styles are being replaced with more "holistic" strategies and an overcapitalized market has added to insurers pressures ...
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Acquisitions Hit Record Pace;Outstripped By De-Acquisitions After last years record high number of insurance company acquisitions, the industry is on track to set a ...
Robert F. Conger, Stephen P. Darcy
Future Shock: Top Ten Stories of 2005Organizations and individuals routinely modify their views of the world, their perceptions, and their actions based on the news ...
Robert P. Hartwig, Ph.D.
How Much Longer To P-C Nirvana?Like kids on a long car trip headed for summer vacation, many insurance company employees and the agents that represent ...
Susanne Sclafane
Top 20 Groups Intact, But Positions Shift If you had taken a picture of the National Underwriter ranking of the top 20 property-casualty insurance groups ...
Mark E. Ruquet
When The Agent-Insurer Marriage FailsLike a marriage, the relationship between an agent and company may seem like a good match at the start, but as ...