Cincinnati Insurance News

CINCINNATI, April 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Cincinnati Financial Corporation today reported: -- First-quarter 2011 net income of $62 million, or 38 cents per share, compared with $68 million, or 42 cents per share, in 2010. -- Operating income* of $55 million, or 33 cents per share, compared with $63 million, or 39 cents per share. -- $6 million decrease in first-quarter 2011 net income was driven by a $7 million after-tax decrease in the contribution from property casualty underwri...

CINCINNATI, Nov. 15, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cincinnati Financial Corporation (Nasdaq: CINF) today announced that its lead property casualty insurance subsidiary, The Cincinnati Insurance Company, appointed KPD Insurance Inc. in Springfield, Oregon, as the first independent agency in that state to market its business insurance policies and services. Cincinnati Insurance executives initiated the relationship at the company's headquarters, welcoming agency representative James R. Ginger, CI...

FINEOS Corporation, a market leading provider of core software solutions for Insurance and Government Insurance, today announced that Manitoba Public Insurance (MPI) of Canada has gone live with FINEOS Claims to manage its claims for personal injury. MPI is a crown corporation that provides basic compulsory automobile insurance coverage in the province of Manitoba, Canada. FINEOS Claims is a customer-centric, web-based universal claims software solution for P&C, Life, Disability and Government i...

Ultimate Software (Nasdaq: ULTI), the leading provider of unified, end-to-end human capital management (HCM) SaaS solutions in North America, announced today that it will host a free, interactive human resources workshop on Tuesday, October 26, 2010 at the Savannah Center in West Chester, Ohio, just 25 minutes north of Cincinnati. High-level HR executives from well-known companies and various industries, as well as a labor attorney from a prestigious law firm, will discuss innovative tools and...

8 out of 10 Collisions Caused by Distracted Driving TORONTO, Oct 4 /CNW/ - Nearly all Canadian drivers view distracted driving negatively, yet most Canadians (75 per cent) still engage in the behaviour, according to a new Allstate Canada poll conducted by Leger Marketing. Distracted driving consists of visual, manual or cognitive distractions. The most common are talking on a mobile phone or texting while driving, changing a CD, eating or drinking, using an electronic device like a GPS, appl...

THE Andrex puppy has beaten off meerkats, Martians and honey monsters to be named Britain's all-time favourite TV ad mascot. Advertising chiefs said the lovable labrador retriever, still getting tangled up in toilet roll after 38 years, proves the best adverts don't need people to sell products. In second place in the list compiled by trade experts is Aleksandr Orlov, the meerkat from car insurance website comparethemarket.com. He narrowly edged out the famous Martians for instant mash ad ...

THE Andrex puppy has beaten off meerkats, Martians and honey monsters to be named Britain's all-time favourite TV ad mascot. Advertising chiefs said the lovable labrador retriever, still getting tangled up in toilet roll after 38 years, proves the best adverts don't need people to sell products. In second place in the list compiled by trade experts is Aleksandr Orlov, the meerkat from car insurance website comparethemarket.com. He narrowly edged out the famous Martians for instant mash ad ...

A look at car insurance rates in Ontario, Quebec and Alberta. TORONTO, July 7 /CNW/ - Today, Kanetix(R) (www.kanetix.ca), Canada's online marketplace for insurance quotes and mortgage rates, released the results of its quarterly review of auto insurance rates in Ontario, Quebec and Alberta. The results varied considerably between provinces when comparing year over year quoted rates in the second quarter of 2010; rates increased by 15.2 per cent in Ontario, fell 8.2 per cent in Quebec and dr...

In the first quarter of 2010, the total U.S. life/health industry continued the progress made during fourth quarter 2009 in its recovery from the financial crisis of late 2008, according to an A.M. Best Co. statistical study in this week's BestWeek U.S./Canada. The report, which looks at first-quarter 2010 financial results for the top 25 life writers, noted an increase in admitted assets, solid improvement in absolute and risk adjusted capital levels, organic earnings growth and some moderati...

Progressive.com is the highest rated website for online car insurance according Keynote® Competitive Research, a leading authority on mobile and Internet sites. The results appear on Keynote's Q2 2010 Insurance Carrier Scorecard. To create the scorecard, Keynote analysts reviewed websites and interviewed company representatives from 12 well-known insurance companies. Sites were ranked based on how well they supported specific functions, such as quoting and buying car insurance. Progressive ha...