Responding to industry demands, Aon announced its new fee disclosure policy in 1999, and the company reorganized to focus on buying personal line insurance firms and to integrate its acquisitions.

In 2003, the company saw revenues increase primarily because of rate hikes in the insurance industry ( meaning higher commissions for Aon ).

Though at first well received in political circles, it was eventually doomed by well-organized opposition from conservatives, the American Medical Association, and the health insurance industry.

While at one time the BVI was well regarded as a good domicile for captive insurance services, this changed beginning in recent years with the change of insurance regulators in 2007 and the government's increasing pressure to hire only locals (" belongers ") in the insurance industry.

In the tertiary sector ; 12, 880 or 13. 2 % were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 11, 959 or 12. 2 % were in the movement and storage of goods, 6, 120 or 6. 3 % were in a hotel or restaurant, 4, 186 or 4. 3 % were in the information industry, 10, 752 or 11. 0 % were the insurance or financial industry, 13, 695 or 14. 0 % were technical professionals or scientists, 6, 983 or 7. 1 % were in education and 16, 060 or 16. 4 % were in health care.

Connecticut's other traditional industry is financial services ; for example, insurance companies in Hartford and hedge funds in Fairfield County.

Never a strong center of industry and manufacturing, the city's economic base relies on the education, medical, technology and insurance industries.

In 1906, he was appointed to the " Armstrong Insurance Commission " to investigate the insurance industry in New York as a special assistant to U. S. attorney general.

Some insurance industry insiders, most notably Hank Greenberg, do not believe that it is forever possible to sustain a profit from float without an underwriting profit as well, but this opinion is not universally held.

In the United States, regulation of the insurance industry primary resides with individual state insurance departments.

Congress adopted the McCarran-Ferguson Act in 1945, which declared that states should regulate the business of insurance and to affirm that the continued regulation of the insurance industry by the states is in the public's best interest.

In recent years, some have called for a dual state and federal regulatory system ( commonly referred to as the Optional federal charter ( OFC )) for insurance similar to the banking industry.

FIO is part of the U. S. Department of the Treasury and it monitors all aspects of the insurance industry, including identifying issues or gaps in the regulation of insurers that may contribute to a systemic crisis in the insurance industry or in the U. S. financial system.

* Home insurance, also commonly called hazard insurance or homeowners insurance ( often abbreviated in the real estate industry as HOI ), provides coverage for damage or destruction of the policyholder's home.

The global insurance industry was sufficiently capitalised to withstand the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 and most insurance companies restored their capital to pre-crisis levels by the end of 2010.

In 1978, market reforms led to an increase in the market and by 1995 a comprehensive Insurance Law of the People's Republic of China was passed, followed in 1998 by the formation of China Insurance Regulatory Commission ( CIRC ), which has broad regulatory authority over the insurance market of China.

Rapid expansion and development in emerging markets, particularly People's Republic of China, is also spurring major mainframe investments to solve exceptionally difficult computing problems, e. g. providing unified, extremely high volume online transaction processing databases for 1 billion consumers across multiple industries ( banking, insurance, credit reporting, government services, etc.

The trading concerns of Jardine's included smuggling opium into China from India, trading spices and sugar from the Philippines, importing Chinese tea and silk into England, handling cargo papers and cargo insurance, renting of dockyard facilities and warehouse space, trade financing and other numerous lines of business and trade.

Instead of the year 2006 being referred to as the " 95th year of the ROC " -- with the 1912 founding of the Republic of China being referred to as " the first year of the ROC " -- the year 2006 would be identified as 2006 in official usage such as on banknotes, IDs, national health insurance cards, driver's licenses, diplomas and wedding certificates.

Front-page headlines continue to present society with public health issues on a daily basis: emerging infectious diseases such as SARS, rapidly making its way from China ( see Public health in China ) to Canada, the United States and other geographically distant countries ; reducing inequities in health care access through publicly funded health insurance programs ; the HIV / AIDS pandemic and its spread from certain high-risk groups to the general population in many countries, such as in South Africa ; the increase of childhood obesity and the concomitant increase in type II diabetes among children ; the social, economic and health impacts of adolescent pregnancy ; and the ongoing public health challenges related to natural disasters such as the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, 2005's Hurricane Katrina in the United States and the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

Title insurance is available in many other countries, such as Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, Mexico, New Zealand, Japan, China, Korea and throughout Europe.

* Joint venture life insurance businesses in Indonesia ( Astra CMG ); China ( China Life CMG ) and Vietnam ( Bao Minh CMG )

* China Taiping Insurance Holdings, insurance conglomerate incorporated and headquartered in Hong Kong, formerly known as " China Insurance International "

In the DC One Million series, Ambush Bug, or at least a version of him still sporting the same costume and mannerisms, appears of all places in Hong Kong, China, in the year 11021, working as a bartender, mentioning an attack by Lobo substantially increased his insurance fees.

It is legally separate from its parent, Bank of China ( BOC ), although they maintain close relations in management and administration and cooperate in several areas including reselling BOC's insurance and securities services.

Based in Toronto, Canada, Sun Life and its partners provide insurance, retirement and investment solutions for individuals and businesses around the world including Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Japan, Indonesia, India, China and Bermuda.

Ping An (), full name Ping An Insurance ( Group ) Company of China, Ltd. is a holding company whose subsidiaries mainly deal with insurance and financial services.

PICC P & C is the designated agent within the People's Republic of China for most international insurance companies, including Lloyd's of London.

Shipping, insurance, and docks persisted to 1940 but were overshadowed by industrial shares after the Treaty of Shimonoseki of 1895, which permitted Japan, and by extension other nations which had treaties with China, to establish factories in Shanghai and other treaty ports.

Specifically, China has copied the separation between investment banking, commercial banking, and insurance, even after those walls were abolished in the United States, and large sections of the Securities Law of the People ’ s Republic of China have incorporated in legislation concepts copied from American securities law.

Bank of Communications is one of the major financial service suppliers in China with its business scope covering commercial banking, securities, trust, financial leasing, fund management, insurance, offshore financial services, etc.

In addition, the company provide comprehensive general insurance services in partnership with China Taiping Insurance ( HK ) Company Limited and the Asia Insurance Company Limited.

The insurance man informed them that he had talked to Crumley who was all right and that he would watch the men's personal effects until they towed the rig back to town.

In 1959, the Yacht Safety Bureau was reorganized by the National Association of Engine and Boat Manufacturers and a group of insurance underwriters to provide a testing laboratory and labeling service for boats and their equipment.

In 2011, Aon was ranked as the largest insurance broker in the world based on revenue.

At issue was the practice of insurance companies ' payments to brokers ( known as contingent commissions ).

* About 50 people in Vernon, Florida collected insurance claims for loss-of-limb accidents in the late 1950s and early 1960s ; this was more than two-thirds of all such claims in the United States during that time.

In 2011 it was reported that only one captive insurance company was formed in the jurisdiction with many dozens choosing to leave on account of the hostile regulatory environment.

When the UK Channel 4 television program " The Bermuda Triangle " ( c. 1992 ) was being produced by John Simmons of Geofilms for the Equinox series, the marine insurance market Lloyd's of London was asked if an unusually large number of ships had sunk in the Bermuda Triangle area.

Among the most important pieces of legislation was the National Insurance Act 1946, in which people in work paid a flat rate of national insurance.

With most of his money tied up in the Indians, Veeck was forced to sell the team to a syndicate headed by insurance magnate Ellis Ryan.

Vernon was nicknamed " Nub City " because its residents participated in a particularly gruesome form of insurance fraud in which they deliberately amputated a limb in order to collect the insurance money.

He was born in Mount Abu, British India, educated in Plymouth, Devon, and worked as an insurance officer for 10 years before studying for the stage and eventually becoming a writer.

Hubble was born to an insurance executive, John Powell Hubble, and Virginia Lee James in Marshfield, Missouri, and moved to Wheaton, Illinois, in 1900.

However, because he was married, he decided to take a full-time job in insurance instead.

In the United States, the underwriting loss of property and casualty insurance companies was $ 142. 3 billion in the five years ending 2003.

The insurance tradition was performed each year in Norouz ( beginning of the Iranian New Year ); the heads of different ethnic groups as well as others willing to take part, presented gifts to the monarch.

Before insurance was established in the late 17th century, " friendly societies " existed in England, in which people donated amounts of money to a general sum that could be used for emergencies.

The first insurance company in the United States underwrote fire insurance and was formed in Charles Town ( modern-day Charleston ), South Carolina, in 1732.