UNDER Construction: The Green Property Insurance Market

Douglas G. Hotchkiss, owner of the Dallas, Texas-based Hotchkiss Insurance Agency, hadn't thought much about building "green" or environmentally-friendly structures. But he now says, "it's a bigger deal than I thought. ... I guess I've been asleep at the wheel not thinking about it, but (this) phone call has gotten my interest." Hotchkiss ...

Features

Editor's Note: Stern warning

Submitting, underwriting and placing lawyers professional liability

D&O market fueled by probes, record settlements, globalization

There are no 'mulligans' in commercial property

Social services agencies need extra care and an agent's helping hand

Everything old (or hot, modified, exotic, muscle, etc.) is valuable again

U.S. legal precedents assume larger role in corporate oversight

The untold story: state guaranty funds

Comparing apples to apples, not oranges

Minding Your Business: Developing a sales and marketing plan, part 1

Departments

Currents

• High-tech sensor halts ice on N.H.-Vt. bridge
• Insurer sues arson suspect over fire truck damage
• Long Island makes Top 10 Hurricane-Prone List
• Pa. renews med-mal premium subsidies
• Declarations
• It Figures
• Agency's growth strategy driven by giving away profits to charities
• Soft pricing in D&O to continue
• Mass. to move ahead with assigned risk plan
• Honesty is the best insurance policy
• Erie, agents facing charges of unfair bias
• Insurance not to blame for high cost of doing business in Mass.
• Maine court allows suit over employee's fatal crash
• Litigation trends continue to mount worldwide, report says
• Ease of doing business can make the strategic 'profit' differential

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