Features

Editor's Note: Soft talk

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 tale of two states

It Figures: It Figures

Declarations: Declarations

Departments

Currents

• Federal court to hear Nationawide's Miss. storm surge appeal
• W. Va.'s privatized Brickstreet makes first payment to state
• Florida's workers' comp trust fund coffers overflowing with cash
• Despite firefighting prowess, the Russians aren't coming
• Tenn. court: marijuana not a factor in worker's injury
• U.S. Senate panel weighs funding for weather satellites
• Fla. CFO Sink halts department's disposal
• Insurers refute Fla. Gov. Crist's 'broken promises'
• S.C. sponsors free mitigation workshop
• Tenn. tightens liability leash on dog owners
• After review of mine tragedies, U.S. promises stricter inspections
• N.C. braces for flood insurance rate surge under new building code
• 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

• 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