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P/C Industry’s Total Assets Increased by 2% in First Half of 2006
The U.S. property/casualty industry reported a 2.0% increase in total assets during the first six months of 2006. This compares with increases of about 3.1% during the comparable ...
Source: BestWire   Date: October 23, 2006
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Four Nabbed in $39 Million Workers' Comp Fraud
Zurich American Insurance Co. and Redland Insurance Co. The suspects were either owners or employees of temporary employment agencies that were neither licensed insurers nor bonded ...
Source: BestWire   Date: October 19, 2006
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Broker Trade Group Wants Court to Delay Zurich's Settlement In Bid-Rigging Case
Zurich Financial Services Group's subsidiaries. Ten state attorneys general, however, have filed papers formally opposing efforts by trade associations representing the agents to ...
Source: BestWire   Date: October 13, 2006
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Court Picks New Jersey Law to Govern Major Asbestos Case
New York law, according to court records. The insurers, which include Lexington Insurance Co. and Zurich American Insurance Co., argued that New York law should apply, and had won ...
Source: BestWire   Date: October 4, 2006
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Willis North America CEO Leaves to Head Zurich's Global Corporate North America Unit
Zurich has named Mario P. Vitale as chief executive officer of its global corporate North America operations. Vitale starts Oct. 2 in this newly created position, reporting to ...
Source: BestWire   Date: September 22, 2006
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Subcontractor Default Insurance Makes Inroads In Surety Industry
...Guard versus bonding subcontractors, he said. Some general contractors like the fact that under a SubGuard policy, they don't need to seek approval from the insurance carrier over ...
Source: BestWire   Date: September 11, 2006
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Supreme Court Deals Blow to Workers' Comp Insurers
Howard Delivery Service, Inc. v. Zurich American Insurance Co., the court found that overdue workers' comp premiums are not wages or part of an employee-benefit plan under the ...
Source: BestWire   Date: June 21, 2006
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Judge Denies Silverstein Legal Claims Against World Trade Center Liability Insurers
Southern District of New York, Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein found that, with the exception of one excess insurer, the evidence shows "clearly and indisputably" that the insurers ...
Source: BestWire   Date: June 9, 2006
Perspectives: Getting Regulators to Buy In on Contingent Commissions Is No Easy Task
Have you heard this one? A customer walks into an electronics store to buy a new television and asks to know the prices, features and service records of different models. After a ...
Source: BestWire   Date: May 22, 2006
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Ace Settles for $80 Million With Three States in Finite Reinsurance, Brokerage Probes
New York, Connecticut and Illinois. Those settlements will cost Ace $80 million pretax, a charge to first-quarter earnings that cut into an otherwise impressive performance. Ace ...
Source: BestWire   Date: April 26, 2006
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Zurich's Total Settlement Costs Reach $325 Million After New, Three-State Deal
His investigators pointed to an e-mail from a Marsh & McLennan Cos. broker to a Zurich underwriter seeking a phony bid for an insurance contract that was being steered to American ...
Source: BestWire   Date: March 27, 2006
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U.S. Supreme Court Hears Arguments Over Workers' Comp Premiums in Bankruptcy Case
Zurich American Insurance Co., were delivered March 21. At issue is whether Zurich's claim for repayment of $410,000 in unpaid workers' comp premium owed by Howard -- a West ...
Source: BestWire   Date: March 21, 2006
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Insurer Zurich to Pay $171 Million to Settle Bid-Rigging Investigations
... York State Insurance Department. According to Marsh, about 70,000 eligible policyholders across the United States have elected to receive distributions from the fund. Three ...
Source: BestWire   Date: March 20, 2006
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Update: Zurich Agents Get Back to Basics in Battle to Adjust Katrina Claims
This time the strategy backfired. "In this situation, our advanced team found a couple of locations, but those locations got wiped out by the hurricane," Engel said. "We had to ...
Source: BestWire   Date: October 17, 2005
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Zurich Agents Get Back to Basics in Battle to Adjust Katrina Claims
This time the strategy backfired. "In this situation, our advanced team found a couple of locations, but those locations got wiped out by the hurricane," Engle said. "We had to ...
Source: BestWire   Date: October 17, 2005
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Fifth Circuit Rules Newspaper is Entitled to Full Recovery of Embezzled Funds From Zurich
Zurich American Insurance Co. was in effect, the Times-Picayune discovered a loss of approximately $2.2 million resulting from a six-year embezzlement by an employee. Of that ...
Source: BestWire   Date: August 18, 2005
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Broker Ethics Headline Lloyd's Association Meeting
Association of Lloyd's Brokers. More than 150 people -- most of them Lloyd's brokers -- were expected to gather at the Harris Bank auditorium in downtown Chicago to hear about the ...
Source: BestWire   Date: February 16, 2005
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Appeals Court Finds WTC Janitorial Firm Entitled to Business-Interruption Coverage
The decision by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals allows San Francisco-based ABM Industries (NYSE:ABM) to argue it has business-interruption coverage for more than $100 million ...
Source: BestWire   Date: February 14, 2005
A.M. Best Comments on Its Ratings Subsequent to the World Trade Center Verdict
Allianz Global Risks United States Insurance Co., a subsidiary of Allianz A.G.; Travelers Indemnity Co. and Gulf Insurance Co., both now part of St. Paul Travelers Cos.; General ...
Source: BestWire   Date: December 9, 2004
Tale of Two Trials: Contract Language Underlies Contradictory World Trade Center Verdicts
Silverstein contends the destruction was two events, not one. The federal jury in the Phase II trial agreed with Silverstein that the terrorism that brought down the structures ...
Source: BestWire   Date: December 9, 2004

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