The fourth largest auto insurer in California said it plans to reduce rates as much as 7 percent, becoming the first carrier to implement new regulations that reduce a driver's location as a rating fa
Do you have a good story to tell about placing a difficult risk? We'd like to report it in National Underwriter. The best of such reader tales from the excess and surplus lines market place will be in
Tom Gallagher, Florida's chief financial officer, announced that the pilot phase of the My Safe Florida Home program ended today and his goal of completing 12,000 inspections by the Nov. 30 end of the
London-based Willis said Mr. Millwater, who continues as chairman of Willis Re, has been with the firm for 21 years. Willis said he has been instrumental in developing strategies to improve revenue gr
In today's blog entry, NU Editor In Chief Sam Friedman warns insurers not to bet the farm that a federal appeals court will overturn this week's devastating district court ruling that many insurer pol
Was State Farm--its longtime advertising claims to the contrary--not a good neighbor when it came to dealing with Hurricane Katrina claims in Mississippi? In today's blog entry, NU Editor In Chief Sam
Cybersettle, Inc., the developer of the automated, online, double-blind bid system, has won a patent infringement case it filed against National Arbitration Forum (NAF), a Minnesota-based company
In the fall of 2006, Celent, a research and advisory firm, said it surveyed 29 senior IT executives with insurers to provide a deep information resource about priorities, behaviors, initiatives, and i