The CHANGING FACE of Surplus Lines Brokers

The surplus lines industry is never boring, never plain and certainly never black and white. Often dubbed as the innovator of new insurance products, the industry could even be considered colorful when it comes to the breadth and scope of business risks surplus lines professionals insure. However, when it comes to the industry's surplus lines ...

Features

Editor's Note: The natural disaster dilemma

Thriving in today's challenging insurance environment

Insurance industry bullish on coming year's consolidation

U.S. report: Private insurers overpaid by national flood program

Lloyd's America's Baker: Time for action on climate change is now

Predictive Analytics 2.0

Making the case for Internet liability coverage

Chinese imports and product liability coverage

Cutting doctors' hours may not reduce medical errors, studies find

U.S. excess and surplus lines market attracts international attention

Growing Your Property Casualty Agency: Establish an authentic small business department

Idea Exchange: Lawyers should not dismiss lawyers' professional liability coverage

Idea Exchange: Making sense of the subprime mortgage mess

Idea Exchange: Eight major mistakes employers make when workers' comp rates go down

Idea Exchange: Exporters' insurance: A world of opportunity

Idea Exchange: Prospects and pitfalls in a changing global insurance world

Closing Quote: Catastrophes: There is no free lunch

Closing Quote: Catastrophes: The time to act is now

Declarations: Declarations

Departments

Currents

• Calif. high court rules discovery does not apply to reinsurance documents
• Oregon passes motor vehicle, P/C insurance-related bills
• Former N.M. insurance regulator pleads not guilty
• CEA funding structure to be revamped under legislation sent to governor
• Calif. governor signs law to ban teen cell phone use while driving
• Calif. urges governor to sign workers' comp bill
• Countrywide announces more job cuts to come
• Farmers Insurance fined $2 million; company refunds $1.4 million
• Montana's wildfire suppression funding process convoluted, analysts say
• Chubb lowering homeowners rates in Calif. 18.4 percent
• Allstate opening service center in Las Cruces
• Wash. wants comp rate increase
• Santa Rosa diocese to pay $5 million in priest sex abuse settlement
• Colo. hail damage estimated at $60 million
• Judge throws out all federal antitrust charges against insurers, brokers
• Industry skeptical, while Treasury opposes natural disaster pool
• Health premiums rise 6.1%; average family coverage costs $12,000
• Progressive combines personal lines management
• U.S. reinsurers report premiums dropped in 2Q
• Insurers have manageable exposure to subprime turmoil, report says
• U.S. fire report: More fires; fewer deaths and injuries; rise in property losses
• Guy Carpenter finds Lloyd's market at its 'healthiest in 300 years'

Fraud Roundup

• Fraud Roundup

New Markets

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Newsbriefs

• HAWAII INSURERS FILE 16.8 PERCENT WORKERS' COMP COST DECREASE
• NEW ORE. LAW AFFECTS GROUP CONTRACTOR LIABILITY INSURANCE

People & Places

• People and Places