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Defining Terrorism For Policies Not A Simple Task After Boston Tragedy
There are a number of issues involved in determining whether the Boston bombings tragedy would be considered a terrorist act for insurance purposes such as determining the applicability of terrorism ...
The Trademark Problem: Casualty Insurance’s Dirty Little Secret
It has always been surprising to me that trademark issues receive so little attention in the insurance community. It's almost as if trademark claims are the dirty little secret of casualty insurance, ...
Breaking Convention
Did the father sit in candlelight and silence? Or did Jean rant and sob? Did he blame himself or his son …after all he had done for him? We shall never know how Monsieur Poquelin greeted abject ...
O’Leary Set To Lead PHLY’s High Achievers & Loyal Soldiers
Although the name of the senior-most officer of Philadelphia Insurance is changing, just about everything else is going to stay the same at the 51-year old specialty insurance company, according to ...
Minding The Gap: Investment Risk Management In A Low-Yield Environment
A significant component of managing a property/casualty insurance company's investment portfolio is gap management—ensuring that asset cash flows and returns always exceed claims and expenses by a ...
Alternative Re Capital Wave Lowering Traditional Re Prices Too
If April 1 is an accurate barometer for U.S. property/casualty insurers with June and July 1 reinsurance renewal dates, then those primary carriers can look forward to lower prices for both ...
Should Tweeting CEOs Be Muzzled or Glorified?
If the CEO of a public company posts good news about the company's booming business on Facebook, does that same CEO have an obligation to post information about a subsequent business decline? The ...
The Underwriting-Claims ‘Disconnect’ in Casualty Insurance: An ERM Issue?
There are good business reasons why claims and underwriting professionals of casualty insurance carriers don't talk to each other about claim denials, underwriting executives said last week, with one ...