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Articles in U.S. REViews September 2000

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U.S. RE Places Reinsurance for Lawyers' Mutual

Senior Vice President Larry Shatoff reports that U.S. Re has placed reinsurance for the Legal Mutual Liability Society of Maryland, the endorsed carrier for the Maryland State...

CIAB Welcomes U.S. RE as New Member

Robert A. Gleason, Jr., Chairman, and Ken A. Crerar, President, welcomed Tal Piccione and the U.S. RE Group recently to membership in the Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers...

AIR-U.S. RE Joint Venture Brings CAT Modeling to Scandinavia

AIR (Applied Insurance Research), the Boston-based catastrophe modeling firm, has teamed up with U.S. RE-Europe in a joint venture to bring AIR's sophisticated cat modeling se...

East Coast Hurricanes Threaten Ten-Fold Increase In Property Damage

With coastal construction accelerating and continuing high hurricane activity predicted, storm damage to property could rise from an average of $5 billion a year in the 90's t...

First Ever Earthquake Tests Show Damage to Wood Frame Construction in California

Conventional construction was tested recently by engineers from the University of California who built a wood frame structure and shook it to simulate the impact of an earthqu...

Qualsure Names Management Team

QualSure Insurance Corporation, Florida's newly formed personal lines insurer, has named its senior management team, Robert Thomas (Tom) Savage, Jr., President and Chief Execu...

Dick Davies, Senior Vice President and Director of U.S. RE Corporation

Editor's Note: Here's another in our series of occasional profiles of the executives and staff who make up the U.S. RE team.

With his Br...

U.S. RE Offers Greater Capacity in Tightening Reinsurance Market and New Programs

U.S. RE is responding to the tightening reinsurance market by offering increased limits and greater capacity along with the Company's specialized catastrophe products, reports...

New Insurance Programs for Caterers and Marina Operators Offered by Quadrant

Comprehensive Insurance programs designed to meet the unique requirements of off-premise caterers and marina operators were announced recently by AMG/Quadrant Insurance Manage...

SecondQuarter CAT Losses Down from Last Year

The Insurance Services Office reports that catastrophe losses in the second quarter will cost property/casualty insurers $1.4 billion, down from $3.5 billion in the same perio...

U.S. RE Launches Underwriting Management Group Names Shuttleworth President

U.S. RE Companies, Inc has launches an underwriting management subsidiary and named J. Sterling Shuttleworth President and Chief Executive Officer.

U.S. RE Companies Continue to Grow

We took another big step forward into the underwriting management field this summer with the launch of Uni-Ter Underwriting Management Corporation (UUMC) under the leadership ...

New Study Points to Threat of Tidal Waves Along U.S. East Coast

The Journal Science reported in the July issue that a geological study found a layer of porous rock 2,000 feet under the seabed off the coast of New Jersey that poses the thre...

CAT Bond Sales Up but Explosive Growth Not Expected

Trading in catastrophe bonds is expected to increase in this year's hurricane season, according to a recent Wall Street Journal report. As of June, some $657 million in cat bo...

New Book Offers Fresh Approach to Risk

A new book, "20% Chance of Rain" offers a comprehensive approach to the subject of risk that goes well beyond traditional insurance concepts. The author is Richard B. Jones, P...

Florida's Lee County Faces Evacuation Crisis

In a story on the building boom along Florida's Gulf Coast, USA TODAY reports that Lee County has grown to the point where a full evacuation in advance of a hurricane would ta...

Grand Opening Reception for Qualsure Insurance

QualSure Insurance Corporation, Florida's newest personal lines insurance company, hosted a grand opening reception recently at its headquarters in Sarasota. U.S. RE Companies...