In its “International Liability Market Review”, broker Willis says predictions that the liability market would see flat to declining pricing in the second half of 2004 were borne out. But the 10-15% declines in liability pricing paled in comparison to…
Alberta’s Agricultural Financial Services Corp. is giving out $2 million in premium rebates to about 7,400 farmers who purchased straight hail insurance in 2004. While 2004 was actually a high loss year for crops due to hail, past experience has…
Two researchers who work with the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR) will be heading this week to the World Conference on Disaster Reduction in Kobe, Japan.Dr. Gordon Bean and Dr. Slobodan Simonovic are set to present research to the…
Manitoba Public Insurance (MPI) says for the first nine months ending November 30, 2004, it pulled in net income of $81.5 million, more than double the $38.7 million reported in the first nine months a year prior.Premiums written were up…
Ontario-based Loyalist Insurance Group says it is working to meet requirements of the Toronto Stock Exchange as the company is to be reinstated on the TXS Venture Exchange later this week.The company had been delisted in November for failing to…
Toronto-based conglomerate Onex says it has sold its U.S. insurance brokerage operation, InsLogic. While the buyer was not disclosed, Onex says it received $22 million for the Tennessee-based provider of private-label brokerage services. InsLogic provides insurance services for auto manufacturers…
The Vermont Banking, Insurance, Securities and Health Care Administration (BISHCA) says 43 new captives were formed in the domicile in 2004. The forms were varied, with 29 pure captives, 8 risk retention groups (RRGs), and also industrial insureds, sponsored, association…
On the heels of publishing its claims study, Newfoundland’s Public Utilities Board (PUB) is asking for public input to a series of insurance hearings.The first hearings will deal with auto insurance, with the completion of the PUB’s study of closed…
Insurance industry leaders expect the investigation into market practices will only expand in 2005, according to results of a survey conducted by the U.S. Insurance Information Institute (III).The III asked attendees at last week’s P/C Industry Joint Industry Forum in…
In its annual “Marketplace Realities” report, broker Willis finds despite price softening in “virtually all market segments”, underwriting discipline remains intact.Despite the past year being marked by catastrophes, including the Atlantic hurricane season and December 26 Asian tsunami, market capacity…
The U.S. Insurance Research Council (IRC) says auto injury fraud is adding about US$5 billion to claims costs per year, based on 2002 data. The study also found indications of fraud in 10% of all paid bodily injury claims, and…
2004 was marked by a series of “disasters” for the insurance industry not just natural catastrophes like the Atlantic hurricanes, but also corporate catastrophe in the form the investigations into broker compensation and non-traditional insurance products. In light of this,…