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June 18, 2007
West Edition
Strength in Numbers: How networks and clusters brighten agents' access to markets
Strength in Numbers: How networks and clusters brighten agents' access to markets
Today's demands on independent agents are plentiful: competition, risk management, compensation disclosure, quality markets and carrier's demands for premium quotas, to name a few. Such demands could be one reason some agencies today have increased their use of market access providers. There is a growing use of market access providers, ...Features
Editor's Note: Repeat performance
Maximizing your value by asking the right questions
More agents turn to outside organizations to access markets, study finds
Terrorism Risk Insurance Act Déjà Vu
Top 25 workers' comp insurers represent nearly half of market
Workers' comp writers report best underwriting results in decades
Selling workers' comp like it's not a commodity
Franchisor helps Kansas agent change course
Idea Exchange: Managing D&O claims expense
Idea Exchange: Private Sector Summit to focus on Florida property insurance market
Idea Exchange: Brokers' stock prices up 8%; 23 M&As posted in April and May
Idea Exchange: How to avoid common producer sales management mistakes
Closing Quote: Key employer advantages to Health Savings Accounts
It Figures: It Figures
Declarations: Declarations
Departments
Currents
- Property market in cat-prone areas not soft -- yet
- Arizona aims to raise workers' compensation benefits limits
- Calif. State Fund files 11% premium decrease
- Bank of Albuquerque awarded New Mexico insurance contract
- Group challenges Fireman's Fund's earthquake rates
- Study: Calif. workers' comp reforms are working
- Consumers not informed about homeowners insurance, study says
- Mulryan: Working to improve Calif. State Fund's value, transparency
- Violent crime up, property crime down in 2006, FBI reports
- Calif. commissioner seeks additional workers' comp reforms
- Court: Injuries even to prosthetic parts deserve workers' comp benefits
- Risk managers take strong stand against contingent commissions
- Fast-growing, state-run property insurers pose risk for taxpayers
- Court sides with insurers on credit reporting case
Fraud Roundup
New Markets
Newsbriefs
- WASH. ISSUES EMERGENCY RULE ON HEAT ILLNESS
- MONTANA SEES 92% INCREASE IN CAPTIVE LICENSES
- RISING MEDICAL COSTS, SLOW INVESTMENT RETURNS CHALLENGE WORKERS' COMP