Flint Insurance Private Clients Panel member, Zurich Private Clients, has announced its newest “green” environmentally friendly initiative as a new benefit for their customers. The eco-friendly effort will provide a benefit for enhanced fuel efficiency to customers with high net worth auto insurance. Included on the Flint Private Clients Panel are the leading insurance providers in the UK. They provide a range of different insurance products, from high net worth insurance to auto insurance. Zurich Private Clients is among the insurers on the panel that is considered to be an…
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United Nations conference hopes to catalyze the global insurance industry
Canada is set to host the third of seven United Nations conferences that aim to establish sustainability principles for the world’s insurance industry. The United Nation Environment Program Finance Initiative’s Principles for Sustainable Insurance, is a new initiative enacted by the U.N. to help insurance companies manage environmental risks as well as their associated social implications. Insurance officials from all over the world will be attending the conference, hoping to glean some information on how to cope with what appears to be a volatile environmental flux. The increase in natural…
Read MoreNew energy property insurance program announced by Lexington
Lexington Insurance Company announced yesterday that it would be offering two new service products. The new set of products was designed to protect owners, developers and investors from financial losses resulting from damage or loss of energy property. Lexington presented its Energy Investment Tax Credit Insurance program, which consists of two plans. Investment Tax Credit (ITC) Energy-48 Mobile Property, and ITC Energy-48 Professional Liability. Besides protecting developers, owners and investors from property damage and loss, it was also a comeback to the recapture of ITC granted for those properties; as…
Read MoreCalifornia Car Insurance: Sequoia offering new “Pay As You Go” insurance plan
Following the latest insurance trend sweeping the nation, Sequoia Insurance Co., one of the largest insurers in California, will begin offering a pay-as-you-drive auto insurance policy. Sequoia joins State Farm and Progressive in offering this particular policy, increasing the options available to California drivers. Progressive was the first to incorporate this concept into their coverage options after finding that fewer people were taking to the road in light of rising gas prices and other costs. Drivers interested in the coverage must first have a small device installed in their vehicles.…
Read MoreWonder why insurance premiums are going up instead of down during recession?
The rising price of oil and gas, the unemployment rates and the uncertainty of the economy; what do these things have in common? They can all affect the insurance industry and the rates you pay for your auto and homeowners coverage. Actuarial science is a field that uses math and statistics to assess risk in the financial and insurance industries. There is a professional group of people called actuaries that use actuarial science and apply it to property and casualty insurance risks. This group of experts has noticed a connection…
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