Insurance News
(9/20/2017)
Two weeks after escaping the worst of the damage from Hurricane Irma, Puerto Rico suffered a direct hit from Hurricane Maria on Wednesday, an extremely dangerou...
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(9/20/2017)
Hurricane Harvey is officially the most expensive storm to batter the state in terms of insured losses, the Insurance Council of Texas reported. The insurance t...
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(9/11/2017)
Now that Irma has been downgraded to a tropical storm, what remains is recovery—and finding out just how expensive that recovery will be. Irma drove a path of...
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(9/11/2017)
Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis and Insurance Commissioner David Altmaier hosted a conference call with insurance company executives to confirm that comp...
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(9/11/2017)
Nineteen states and the District of Columbia have hurricane deductibles, according to the Insurance Information Institute...
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(9/11/2017)
The U.S. House approved, by a vote of 407 to 1, legislation to ensure the Financial Stability Oversight Council insurance expert can remain for an additional 18...
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(9/06/2017)
Just after residents of Texas endured massive destruction from Hurricane Harvey, another big hurricane may threaten the United States. The ultimate path of Hurr...
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(9/06/2017)
There are reports that residents in Texas have been receiving robo-calls telling them their flood premiums are past due, and in order to have coverage for Hurri...
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(9/06/2017)
A new data analysis just came out saying Hurricane Harvey was a 1-in-1,000-year flood event...
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(9/06/2017)
Preliminary results from A.M. Best indicate that the U.S. property/casualty insurance industry posted a net underwriting loss of $5.1 billion for the first half...
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(8/29/2017)
A major catastrophe is underway in Texas. It started with the arrival of Hurricane Harvey, now a tropical storm that has stalled over the eastern part of Texas....
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(8/29/2017)
Independent agents have specific stakes in several high-profile issues being debated in Congress, such as renewal and reform of the National Flood Insurance Pro...
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(8/29/2017)
A survey from the Reinsurance Association of America indicates that U.S. property and casualty reinsurers saw an increase in gross written premium over the firs...
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(8/29/2017)
Aetna Inc. inadvertently revealed the HIV status of some clients in a mailing about medication for the disease sent to about 12,000 people last month...
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(8/23/2017)
In 2016, independent agents held 49 percent of the new individual life insurance sales market...
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(8/23/2017)
Preliminary NOAA reports show that there were about 529 tornadoes January to April 2017 compared with the January to April average of 239 for the three years fr...
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(8/23/2017)
According to Marsh’s Global Insurance Index, global insurance rates decreased for the 17th consecutive quarter in the second quarter of 2017 due to substantia...
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(8/23/2017)
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf has chosen Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller to head the state’s Department of Human Services, with Insurance Department Chief o...
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(8/23/2017)
The National Underwriter/PC360 has announced its first annual Agency of the Year Awards...
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(8/15/2017)
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners has released the second volume of the 30th edition of the Insurance Department Resources Report. The report ...
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