The owner has 25 years+ in the field and all employees are 10+ years working for other companies doing the same type of work. The replies from UW have been vague, but mostly along the lines of the GL exposure being to great due to the high value and replacement cost of clean room equipment. Basicall...

I'm looking for CGL for a startup with 25+ yrs working as a service provider to the clean room facilities of the semi-conductor industry. Insured goes into sterile/cleanroom operations and services manufacturing tools and equipment. Very little if any real end use product defect exposure due to his ...

I am a CIC and am hoping to start up with CRM designations this summer. The first available CRM in my area is Control of Risk. Principles of Risk Mgmt won't be offered here until 2010 and I don't want to travel for CRMs if I don't have to. Is it a bad idea to start off with Control of Risk, or any o...

Check out Germania, a wonderful company to write for. Allstate was our biggest book and now Germania has overtaken that. Good commissions, good bonus program, good underwriters and company feedback. Germaniainsurance.com And be careful about Travelers, just found out today they are going direct.......

jimmyr1978 wrote:Zurich is the best around. I'd go there first b/f entering the E/S market.

We just placed a Zurich Pollution policy and it is a surplus lines policy. We had to file a signed due diligence form stating the three admitted markets that declined it before going E&S.

Try Beacon Hill, all they do is pollution, and they do it well. http://www.b-h-a.com

Never heard of IronShore, and we write a lot of construction business mostly standard market admitted stuff, and some surplus as well. You never know - We get quotes from carrier I've never heard of, like the one on this risk that I got beat on was Gotham?? Hadn't heard of them but it looks to be so...

I'm with you on that one, I was not too sad to see him go, however I sure don't like to get beat and wouldn't want this to happen again on one that is worth keeping so I'm checking into it. The guy had some slow pay due to these large home builders slow-paying their subs, but still it was his fault....

I lost a $50,000 account today to some competition that I am unaware of. My client is a middle market residential landscaping contractor who does all new residential construction for national home builders such as Pulte, DR Horton, etc. My renewal CGL quote was around $19,000 and we lost the account...