Features

Editor's Note: Close to home: 1906 revisited

Jobs and more on the line in R.I. as Beacon Mutual-Carcieri political saga enters critical period

Agencies move beyond strategy toward practical real-time rating

Not all agents oppose an optional federal charter

Acquiring minds want to know how even smaller firms can buy agencies

Brokerage Watch

Raising the profile of managing general agents in the U.S. and abroad

Use agency generated coupons to cash-in on new sales

Writing public entities: how they compare to profit businesses

Woodruff-Sawyer discusses the secret to success

The London market looks beyond Lloyd's

Getting to the bottom of underinsured homes

Taking a piece of the pie

Departments

Currents

• Contingent fees become focus in R.I. lead paint case
• Safeco weighs Internet sales of auto insurance
• Critics allege wind modelers following politics over science
• States balk at growing trend of federal preemption
• Northeast states fair well in legal system fairness rankings by Chamber of Commerce
• Mass. makes health insurance history by making it compulsory
• Senators introduce Optional Federal Charter legislation
• Younger adults and those earning above $75K most likely to suffer ID theft
• U.S. tort costs reach a record $260 billion, Tillinghast study reports
• Private companies at increased risk of liability lawsuits, Chubb & Son survey reports

New Markets

• New Markets

Newsbriefs

• N.Y. KILLS 'DRACONIAN' AGENT PENALTIES
• LEXINGTON EYES 2004 REPEAT
• HARTFORD TO CHARGE INSURERS FOR EMERGENCY SERVICES
• LLOYD'S HOLDS 2005 LOSS TO $180.6 MILLION
• S&P UPS REINSURERS' OUTLOOK TO STABLE
• PUERTO RICO'S COUNTER-SIGNATURE LAW UPHELD

People & Places

• People and Places