Latest Carriers Headlines
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BOP evolution warrants a second look
Jul 2 2007 // Do you think of business owners policies (BOPs) as low-premium accounts that won’t make any money, are too labor intensive, or are more trouble than they’re worth? Don’t be so quick to judge. This line of...
Industry Challenges
Jul 2 2007 // It’s great to have peripheral ways of generating business and revenue, but stay focused on your core. Focus key to surviving insurance industry challenges The “big problems” facing insurance agents and...
BOP evolution warrants a second look
Jul 2 2007 // Do you think of business owners policies (BOPs) as low-premium accounts that won’t make any money, are too labor intensive, or are more trouble than they’re worth? Don’t be so quick to judge. This line of...
Maximize your value by asking the right questions
Jul 2 2007 // Price, all too often, is the single factor in an agent’s choice of workers’ compensation insurance coverage for his or her clients. An effective way to differentiate your agency from your competitors is to shop...
P/C insurers invest $320 billion in public projects
Jul 2 2007 // The insurance industry holds investments in municipal bonds worth more than $320 billion, investments that help fund construction of schools, roads, and hospitals, and support a variety of other public sector activities,...
Coverage interpretation and claims litigation at odds
Jul 2 2007 // But overall, construction market looks ‘optimistic,’ Willis exec says Today’s construction underwriters and their claim departments may not be following the same blueprint on issues of coverage...
Contracts count when dealing with subcontractors
Jul 2 2007 // Language, legislative knowledge, and right insurance partner keys to wrapping up volatile market One of the many challenges general contractors — both commercial and residential — have faced over the past five...
News Currents
Jul 2 2007 // Gov. Riley halts hike in Alabama auto liability limits Alabama Gov. Bob Riley decided to veto legislation that would have raised the minimum liability insurance limits that motorists must buy because he was concerned the...
Fla. regulators again irk insurers over credit rule
Jul 2 2007 // Property/casualty insurers are complaining that the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation is “off the mark” in developing rules implementing a law passed in 2003 addressing insurers’ use of credit...
News Currents
Jul 2 2007 // Mississippi poses PR challenge for State Farm and industry It’s the latest version of the Hatfields versus the McCoys but with billions of dollars and an insurer’s, if not an industry’s, reputation at...
Business Owners Policies
Jul 2 2007 // submission by carriers. BOP evolution warrants a second look Do you think of business owners policies (BOPs) as low-premium accounts that won’t make any money, are too labor intensive, or are more trouble than...
Maximize your value by asking the right questions
Jul 2 2007 // Price, all too often, is the single factor in an agent’s choice of workers’ compensation insurance coverage for his or her clients. An effective way to differentiate your agency from your competitors is to shop...
News Currents
Jul 2 2007 // Lawsuit claims insurer denied firefighter’s benefits, caused death The family of a Puyallup, Wash., firefighter has filed a lawsuit claiming the city of Puyallup and its insurer illegally denied health benefits after...
Focus key to surviving insurance industry challenges
Jul 2 2007 // The “big problems” facing insurance agents and brokers today are human resources; government intervention; sustaining agency revenue growth/profit; maintaining a consistent company strategy and tactics; and...
P/C insurers invest $320 billion in public projects
Jul 2 2007 // The insurance industry holds investments in municipal bonds worth more than $320 billion, investments that help fund construction of schools, roads, and hospitals, and support a variety of other public sector activities,...
Getting to ‘yes’ with underwriters on design liability accounts
Jul 2 2007 // The most important thing a broker can do to advance an underwriting deal for an architects and engineers professional liability account is to understand how insurers vary in their rating. Insurers do not all approach...
More small businesses think big
Jul 2 2007 // The federal Small Business Act defines a small business as one that is “independently owned and operated, not dominant in its field, and whose size falls within the size standards established by the Small Business...
Contracts count when dealing with subcontractors
Jul 2 2007 // One of the many challenges general contractors — both commercial and residential — have faced over the past five years involves subcontractor insurance. The subcontractor marketplace has always been volatile....
Coverage interpretation and claims litigation at odds
Jul 2 2007 // Today’s construction underwriters and their claim departments may not be following the same blueprint on issues of coverage interpretation for losses involving general liability and property damage claims, says Paul...
Insurers: Fla.Consumers Will Benefit at Demise of No-Fault Insurance
Jun 29 2007 // Consumers in Florida will soon see significant cost savings and a more consumer-friendly automobile insurance system when the state’s fraud ridden no-fault personal injury protection (PIP) law sunsets October 1,...
