Features

Editor's Note: Driver's seat

How to make insuring tough product liability accounts easier

Congress gets serious about surplus lines insurance reform

Reeling in the new recruits

Control experience modification factor, before it controls you

Premium Growth: Top 25 P/C premium gainers for first quarter 2007

Building the case with customers for excess casualty coverage

Growing Your Property Casualty Agency: Creatively communicate with your carriers

Idea Exchange: Commercial lines insurers' stocks up; M&A activity steady in 2nd quarter

Closing Quote: The Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act

It Figures: It Figures

Declarations: Declarations

Departments

Currents

• N.Y. to slash workers' comp rates 20.5%
• Smaller Mass. agencies could be hurt by surprise move to competitive rating for auto
• Drinking buddies not liable as social hosts, Mass. court rules
• In Vermont, insurer seeks reimbursement for hostage benefits
• Virginians question bad driving penalties
• Workers' comp may not cover employee horseplay
• Pa. bad faith claim costs $20 million
• Passengers have duty to aid crash victims in N.J.
• Pa. therapist not liable for patient's car crash
• Va. police turn on the cameras
• R.I. drivers denied day to prove insurance
• Industry supports terror bill but not all agree with NBCR mandate
• FBI data mining targets include insurance fraud suspects
• GAO: Identity theft cases limited compared to number of security breaches
• P/C industry net income, overall profitability slips
• Bermuda shorted as more U.S. captives form onshore, Aon reports
• Supreme Court raises bar for investors bringing securities fraud suits
• Treasury chief Paulson vows review of U.S. financial services regulation

New Markets

• My New Markets

Newsbriefs

• INHALANTS NOT INCLUDED UNDER DRUNK DRIVING LAW, N.Y. HIGH COURT RULES
• PA. BILL LIMITS FARM OWNERS' LIABILITY FOR HUNTING ACCIDENTS
• N.Y. names med malpractice task force after approving 14% hike
• EPOXY CITED IN FATAL BIG DIG CEILING FAILURE
• N.J. agents hope to end auto insurance quote requirement
• THE NONADMITTED INSURANCE AND REINSURANCE REFORM ACT OF 2007 (HR 1065)
• U.S. P/C INSURERS PAY $2.1 BILLION IN CAT LOSSES

People & Places

• People and Places