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North Carolina, Florida Among States With Most Reported Heavy Equipment Thefts
Oct 24, 2013 -- A report this month from the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) shows five of the top 10 states nationwide with the most reported heavy ...
Top 30 Homeowners Insurers Q2 2013: SNL Financial
Oct 24, 2013 -- Ranking of homeowners Insurers for Q2 2013
Survey: Many Sandy-Impacted Small Biz in N.Y. Unprepared for Another Storm
Oct 24, 2013 -- A year after Superstorm Sandy, a new survey of small business owners and managers in the metropolitan New York City area found that ...
Program Business Market Grows 10% to $27B, TMPAA Study Finds
Oct 23, 2013 -- The Target Markets Program Administrators Association (TMPAA) released the results of its annual research to document the size, ...
P/C Insurers' CFOs Point to Hardening Markets: Towers Watson Survey
Oct 22, 2013 -- Chief financial officers with leading North American property/casualty insurers believe both property and casualty insurance ...
GEICO Success Highlights Advertising Dollars vs. Agent Commissions Debate
Oct 22, 2013 -- Direct writer GEICO's success in auto insurance sales is due to spending dollars on effective advertising rather than on agents, according ...
Aon Benfield: U.S. Homeowners Insurance Offers Growth Opportunities
Oct 21, 2013 -- A new report from Aon Benfield, a reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor of Aon plc, says U.S. homeowners insurance is showing ...
Study: Due to Rising Sea Levels, Small Storms Could Produce Significant Flooding
Oct 21, 2013 -- Almost a year after Superstorm Sandy, parts of New York and New Jersey are still recovering from billions of dollars in flood damage ...
States Going After Employers Who Misclassify Workers as Independent Contractors
Oct 18, 2013 -- When construction slowed during the recession, some companies hired workers and wrongly designated them as independent ...
Health Cost Increases in 2013 Were Lowest in Decade: Aon Hewitt
Oct 17, 2013 -- There was some relatively good news in health care this year. U.S. employers and their employees saw the lowest health care premium ...
Congressional Study Finds Inconsistency in Nuclear Safety Enforcement
Oct 17, 2013 -- The number of safety violations at U.S. nuclear power plants varies dramatically from region to region, pointing to inconsistent ...
Study: Michigan Auto Costs Can Drop if Lifetime Care Stays
Oct 16, 2013 -- Michigan can lower auto insurance premiums without making major changes to the state's no-fault system proposed in legislation that has ...
Univ. of Louisiana-Lafayette Gets Grant for Disaster Database
Oct 16, 2013 -- A research center at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette has received a $1.3 million grant to build a tool to educate property owners ...
Top Excess & Surplus Insurers by Market Share: SNL
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D&O Liability Insurance Rates Fell in Q2: Marsh
Oct 10, 2013 -- U.S. publicly-traded clients paid 4.9 percent more on average for their primary directors and officers liability (D&O) coverage in the ...
P/C Stock Valuations Unlikely to Improve Much in Near Term: Conning
Oct 10, 2013 -- While property/casualty insurance stock valuation levels are finally exceeding book values after four years of below-book levels, a ...
Top 10 Market Conduct Complaints by Regulators Against P/C Insurers
Oct 9, 2013 -- Failure to handle claims within specified time frames and using unapproved forms and rates are the top two criticisms of property/casualty ...
Forecast for 2014 Commercial P/C Pricing: Willis
Oct 9, 2013 -- Commercial property insurance buyers could see prices fall from 10 to 20 percent on non-catastrophe risks in 2014 thanks to the influx of ...
Marketing, Not Medicine, Boosts Robotic Surgery, Misrepesents Safety
Oct 9, 2013 -- Porter Adventist Hospital in Denver announced last year that Warren Kortz, a general surgeon on the medical staff, was the first in the ...
Commercial Rates Up 5% in September: MarketScout
Oct 7, 2013 -- U.S. businesses buying property/casualty insurance in September saw a five percent rate increase on average, according to the latest index ...
Researchers Question Privacy of Usage-Based Auto Insurance
Oct 2, 2013 -- A study by a handful of university professors in Colorado claims user-based insurance tracking programs installed in millions of vehicles ...
Poll: 72% Oppose Government Shutdown Linked to Health Care
Oct 1, 2013 -- In a rejection of congressional Republicans' strategy, Americans overwhelmingly oppose undermining President Barack Obama's health-care ...
'Rear View Mirror' Political Risk Management No Longer Works: Marsh
Sep 30, 2013 -- In an age of social media, simply looking at what has happened in the past no longer works to forecast what political events lie ahead in ...
Federal Trade Commission Moves Closer to 'Patent Troll' Study
Sep 30, 2013 -- The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Friday took another step toward a comprehensive study of "patent trolls" - companies in the business ...
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