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Zurich Director of Workplace DEI: New Standards Add to Companies’ Litigation Exposures
Standardization in 2021 has released a new DEI standard. Oltmanns spoke with AM Best at RIMS Riskworld in San Francisco. View the video version of this interview at: https://...
Source: BestWire Date: April 29, 2022
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Zurich NA Head of International: Uptick in Claims Fuels Growing Interest in Offshore D&O Exposures
Zoller spoke with AM Best TV at RIMS Riskworld in San Francisco. View the video version of this interview at: http://www.ambest.com/v.asp?v=zoller422 Following is an edited ...
Source: BestWire Date: April 25, 2022
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Zurich Settles With California Regulators to Keep Workers' Comp Arbitrations in State
Zurich American Insurance Co. is the first workers' compensation insurer to reach a settlement with California since a new law that requires insurers to keep arbitration disputes ...
Source: BestWire Date: July 12, 2013
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Zurich American to Refund Policyholders $4.56 Million in New York
Department of Financial Services. The refunds involve policies issued in 2009, 2010 and 2011. "Ensuring that insurers dedicate the required amount of money to paying policyholder ...
Source: BestWire Date: April 22, 2013
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Zurich Enters Deal With Patriot National Insurance Agency to Distribute Workers' Comp in Florida
Zurich American Insurance Co. plans to expand its share of Florida's captive insurance market by way of Patriot's team of insurance agents. For Zurich, the agreement will serve as ...
Source: BestWire Date: December 15, 2011
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Zurich Global Corporate CEO: Terror Insurance Probably Unaffected by Bin Laden's Death
Osama bin Laden, shot by U.S. special forces in a raid of his compound in Pakistan, executives attending the Risk and Management Society Inc. annual convention said. "In the short ...
Source: BestWire Date: May 4, 2011
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PCI Taps AIG Assistant General Counsel for State Government S.V.P.
American International Group Inc.'s Paul C. Blume Jr. is to join the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America as its senior vice president of state government relations. ...
Source: BestWire Date: February 11, 2009
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Broker Marsh, AIG and Two Other Insurers in Ohio Bid-Rigging Suit
Ohio suit are American International Group Inc., Ace Ltd., Chubb Corp., and Hartford Financial Services Group. Most recently, Hartford reached an agreement with regulators in New ...
Source: BestWire Date: August 28, 2007
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Judge Fines Zurich, Law Firms in WTC-Related Litigation $1.25 Million
Zurich American Insurance Co. and two law firms that represented the insurer in the court battle over liability claims stemming from the World Trade Center attack have been fined ...
Source: BestWire Date: June 25, 2007
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Chubb Agrees To $17 Million Settlement, Ban on Contingent Commissions
United States beginning in 2007. Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, who teamed with counterparts in New York and Illinois in the investigations, said in a statement ...
Source: BestWire Date: December 21, 2006
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Four Major P/C Insurers Told to Halt Contingent Commissions in 2007
York notified ACE Ltd., American International Group Inc., St. Paul Travelers Cos., and Zurich Holding Company of America that they must stop paying the contingent commissions ...
Source: BestWire Date: December 1, 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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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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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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Florida Issues Subpoenas to 11 Insurers on Fee Arrangements
General Charlie Crist's Office said. The subpoenas are the result of a legal task force Florida Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher established last month to look into whether ...
Source: BestWire Date: November 18, 2004
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Florida Attorney General Joins Regulator in Launching Insurance Broker Probe
New York state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. Noting that the rigging of insurance bids alleged in Spitzer's suit would be in violation of Chapter 542 of Florida statutory law on ...
Source: BestWire Date: November 9, 2004
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Florida Audit of Workers' Comp Carriers Results in Almost $1 Million in Fines
Justin Glover, a spokesman for the department. Companies also are required to file notices of injury reports with the department in a timely manner. Companies receiving the largest ...
Source: BestWire Date: July 20, 2004
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N.J. Regulators Demand Rollback on Medical Liability Rates From Zurich
New Jersey, according to A.M. Best Co. information--raised rates for 48% of its health-care providers by more than 30%, including 60% of its obstetricians, the department said. ...
Source: BestWire Date: February 10, 2003
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