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La. Treasurer Suggesting State-Run Flood Insurance
Seeking a way to ease skyrocketing federal flood insurance rates, Treasurer John Kennedy suggested Wednesday that Louisiana should consider getting in the business of offering flood insurance ...
On the Regulation and the Facts
There was much coverage last month on the fifth anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, but it was also the fifth anniversary of the U.S. government's intervention in AIG. While the issues at ...
A market conduct examination is a formal review by a state insurance department of how an insurer operates in the...
Looming Accounting Standard Will Add Complexity to Reserve Setting
Urging property/casualty insurance company investors to respond to a request for comment about a proposed accounting standard before the looming deadline, a carrier CFO said the proposal is destined ...
Forecasters Humbled, Insurers Relieved by Quiet Atlantic Hurricane Season
The 2013 Atlantic hurricane season is humbling forecasters by shaping up as the first in almost two decades without a major storm, confounding predictions that it would be more active than normal. ...
UN Report: Global Warming Has Slowed; Sea Levels to Rise More Quickly
Global warming has slowed since 1998 even though humans spewing ever more greenhouse gases are almost certainly to blame for damaging the atmosphere. That's according to a 36-page summary of a report ...XL Says Hailstorms to Cost $60M
XL Group plc said its preliminary net loss estimate related to the series of hailstorms in Germany and France in late July 2013 is $60 million, pretax and net of reinsurance and reinstatement ...
Endurance Building ‘Relevance’ Through Leadership Changes, CFO Says
Armed with the overstuffed Rolodex of its new CEO, John Charman, Endurance Specialty Holdings is moving into new markets like a startup, the company's chief financial officer suggested at an investor ...
Auto Insurance Buyers Driven by Price: J.D. Power
Rate increases are driving more customers to obtain competitive price quotes, while satisfaction with the buying experience is trending downward among new-buyer customers due to lower price ...