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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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Marsh Hires Team for Dutch Property Business
Also joining the team as brokers will be Paul Heesen and Richard Makkus. Each had been a senior property underwriter at Gerling. Marsh Ltd. is part of Marsh & McLennan Cos. ...
Source: BestWire   Date: August 24, 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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Capacity And Rates for Terrorism, Political Risk Coverage Remain Stable
Venezuela and Nigeria to name a few," he said. Also in the global terrorism insurance market, rates for both stand-alone terrorism coverage and that offered under the Terrorism ...
Source: BestWire   Date: March 31, 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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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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Brokers Seek to Soothe Suspicious Risk Managers Over Transparency
Forum of the Federation of European Risk Management Associations. "I hope the storm does not pass," said Bruce Carnegie-Brown, president and chief executive officer of the Europe ...
Source: BestWire   Date: October 6, 2005
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Reputation Called Key to Success of U.K. Insurance Sector
Insurance & Financial Services Conference. Julian James, director of worldwide markets at Lloyd's, said getting the fundamentals right is important to reputation. James recalled ...
Source: BestWire   Date: September 23, 2005
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Former Marsh and Zurich Employees Plead Guilty in Spitzer Probe
Two former employees of Marsh & McLennan Cos. and a former underwriter at Zurich Financial Services Group pleaded guilty to charges brought about by New York state Attorney General ...
Source: BestWire   Date: August 4, 2005
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Zurich: Giving Up Contingent Commissions Isn't the Answer
Risk and Insurance Management Society Inc.'s annual conference in Philadelphia. He said any broker/producer compensation must reward value they create without impacting their ...
Source: BestWire   Date: April 19, 2005
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Zurich to Sell Stake in South African Insurer
...Black Economic Empowerment" initiative. Under the agreement, Zurich will sell 10% of the share capital of South African Eagle Insurance Co. Ltd. to Royal Bafokeng Finance, a ...
Source: BestWire   Date: April 14, 2005
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Aon Agrees to $190 Million Settlement in Brokerage Probe
... Greenberg as chairman and CEO. Spitzer's investigation into insurance brokerage practices, which he said is ongoing in cooperation with the state insurance department, so far ...
Source: BestWire   Date: March 4, 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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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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Spitzer Nets Guilty Pleas From Two Zurich Underwriters in Brokerage Probe
Edward Coughlin -- are senior underwriters with Zurich American. Each pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of violating New York's Donnelly Act, which prohibits agreements in ...
Source: BestWire   Date: November 17, 2004
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Zurich, Hartford Take Employee Actions as Probes Expand Further
American commercial excess casualty unit. The company offered no further comment on the action and wouldn't identify the employees. Meanwhile, Hartford Financial Services Group ...
Source: BestWire   Date: November 12, 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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