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CEO panel, from left to right: Vincent Dowling, managing director of Dowling & Partners Securities L.L.C. (moderator), Heidi Hutter of Swiss Re America, Thomas Crawford of Prudential Property & Casualty Insurance Co., James Matschulat of Middlesex Mutual Assurance Co., Ramani Ayer of The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. and Maurice Greenberg of American International Group.
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Batten down the hatches FOR 99

March 1, 1999 Lowell Conn and Sean Van Zyl

Reduced profitability, rising underwriting losses, increased competition and higher technology costs are likely to form the stage for the North American property and casualty insurance industry in 1999, according to the vast majority of respondents in an Insurance Information Institute (III) survey conducted at the annually held Joint Industry Forum which recently took place in New York City.

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Ice Storm Lessons learnt

February 1, 1999 Paul Kovacs, Executive Director, Institute for Catastrophic Loss

At the time, it captivated Canadians across the country and even today is at the top of book best seller lists. The raw power of nature displayed by the ice storm which paralyzed south eastern Ontario, Quebec and parts of

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AutoRate Warning

February 1, 1999 Linda Matthews, COO of Royal & SunAlliance

Ontario’s auto insurance regulations under Bill 59, and the latest revisions under Bill 90, have created a unique legislative environment in the provincial governing of consumer insurance. So much so that several provincial insurance regulators have eyed the legislation as

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Third quarter data shows cat costs

February 1, 1999 by Canadian Underwriter

The U.S. property and casualty insurance industry posted US$23.2 billion in net taxed income for the first nine months of 1998, showing a 15% drop from the $27.4 billion made over the same period in 1997. The decline is attributed

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CSIO SHAKEUP

January 1, 1999 by Canadian Underwriter

Last month Howard Moran, in his capacity as board chairman of the Centre for Study of Insurance Operations (CSIO), announced the resignation of Len Ashby as the organization’s president. Although an outspoken critic of the political dabbling of both companies

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U.S. cat losses continue

January 1, 1999 by Canadian Underwriter

Catastrophe losses continued to dampen U.S. property and casualty underwriters’ results for the third quarter of 1998, according to A.M. Best Company. The industry’s net income for the period fell 15% from the previous year’s level, due to higher underwriting

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Claims management and the Environment

January 1, 1999 Cecil Jaipaul,

In the early days of environmental underwriting companies were often unaware of the full risk involved. For many companies the risks they took on and subsequent claims were not foreseen. For others, while the possibility of large claims may have

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ALERT Fraud 2000

January 1, 1999 by Canadian Underwriter

By Stephen Markson, a director of Forensic Systems Group and Craig Malcolm, managing partner of Forensic Accounting & Investigative Services Regardless of whether the new millennium starts on January 1, 2000 or 2001, its advent will provide abundant opportunities for

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Insurer concerns taxi for take off

January 1, 1999 Sean van Zyl, Editor

Consolidation and cost cutting became the corporate buzzwords of the 1980s and 1990s, with operators from insurance to retail-chains through to the aviation industry embracing downsizing and cheaper marketing and delivery systems. The aviation business emerged from this process, particularly

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Canadian Perspective

January 1, 1999 by Canadian Underwriter

The Canadian aviation insurance market is relatively small in the global picture, notes Mike Wills, manager of marine and aviation at Royal & SunAlliance. The Canadian industry’s total aviation net premiums amounted to Cdn$83.8 million for 1997 compared with the