Latest Excess Surplus Headlines
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SLSOT 2005 Seminars Planned for October
Sep 5 2005 // Speakers from the Texas Department of Insurance, the state comptroller’s office and the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas will discuss topics of importance to surplus lines professionals during a series of...
Clarendon Clarifies Hannover Re Decision on Programs
Sep 5 2005 // Many people questioned what Hannover Re’s Chief Executive Wilhelm Zeller, meant when he announced a “new strategy” for its U.S. subsidiary, Clarendon Insurance Group. Presiding over the German...
Midwest Surplus Lines: A Market Unto Itself
Sep 5 2005 // Gone are the days when the Midwest’s surplus lines market saw all sorts of business, from high-liability risks to garden variety commercial property coverage. For the region’s surplus lines business, the...
Do It Right the First Time: Surplus Lines Compliance
Sep 5 2005 // As a producer, keeping abreast of the surplus lines laws and regulations in your own state is often a difficult task. When one wanders across state borders, the challenge becomes even more daunting, sometimes requiring an...
Celebrating 75 Years, Quirk & Company Looks to 100 and Beyond
Sep 5 2005 // As we celebrate our 75th anniversary year, reflections on the past seem to be in order. We have a long and rich history in the insurance industry, a particularly in Texas. I believe that Quirk & Company is one oldest...
Do It Right the First Time: Surplus Lines Compliance
Sep 5 2005 // As a producer, keeping abreast of the surplus lines laws and regulations in your own state is often a difficult task. When one wanders across state borders, the challenge becomes even more daunting, sometimes requiring an...
Midwest Surplus Lines: A Market Unto Itself
Sep 5 2005 // Gone are the days when the Midwest’s surplus lines market saw all sorts of business, from high-liability risks to garden variety commercial property coverage. For the region’s surplus lines business, the...
Do It Right the First Time: Surplus Lines Compliance
Sep 5 2005 // As a producer, keeping abreast of the surplus lines laws and regulations in your own state is often a difficult task. When one wanders across state borders, the challenge becomes even more daunting, sometimes requiring an...
SLSOT 2005 Seminars Planned for October
Sep 5 2005 // Speakers from the Texas Department of Insurance, the state comptroller’s office and the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas will discuss topics of importance to surplus lines professionals during a series of...
After the Internet, Comes The Invasion of the Insurance Exchanges
Sep 5 2005 // Independent insurance agents have outplayed and outscored the Web-based insurance distribution systems that tried to eliminate them and are on the verge of even greater victories, one of the industry’s technology...
Clarendon Clarifies Hannover Re Decision on Programs
Sep 5 2005 // Many people questioned what Hannover Re’s Chief Executive Wilhelm Zeller, meant when he announced a “new strategy” for its U.S. subsidiary, Clarendon Insurance Group. Presiding over the German...
2010: A
Sep 5 2005 // The Road Ahead for Surplus Lines Wholesalers The model surplus lines insurance whole of 2010 should be faster, bigger, better, leaner, able to cross state lines and come in colors other than white. Industry leaders predict...
NAPSLO Prepares for Record Attendance at Annual Conference
Sep 5 2005 // As the National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices gathers in San Francisco this month (Sept. 14-18) for its annual national conference, Insurance Journal recently caught up with the outgoing President...
Lloyd’s of London Finds its 21st Century Form
Sep 5 2005 // Lloyd’s is 317 years old and doing just fine thank you. London’s venerable insurance market traces its roots to the establishment of Edward Lloyd’s coffeehouse in 1688. It’s an icon of both...
‘Sham Declinations’ Leave N.Y. Excess Broker Liable for Insurer’s Losses
Sep 5 2005 // A New York excess lines insurance broker’s use of “sham declinations” to skirt the law on placing coverage with a non-admitted carrier could cost the broker a lot more than just regulatory fines, if a...
Lloyd’s of London Finds its 21st Century Form
Sep 5 2005 // Lloyd’s is 317 years old and doing just fine thank you. London’s venerable insurance market traces its roots to the establishment of Edward Lloyd’s coffeehouse in 1688. It’s an icon of both...
NAPSLO Prepares for Record Attendance at Annual Conference
Sep 5 2005 // Leadership Says Surplus Lines Industry in Good Shape; Ready for Softer Market As the National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices gathers in San Francisco this month (Sept. 14-18) for its annual national...
After the Internet, Comes The Invasion of the Insurance Exchanges
Sep 5 2005 // Independent Agents May Soon Have a New Opportunity, Says MarketScout’s Kerr Independent insurance agents have outplayed and outscored the Web-based insurance distribution systems that tried to eliminate them and are...
SPECIAL REPORT: Back to Earth with Surplus Lines
Sep 5 2005 // NARRATOR: The year is 2010 and Dr. Lois Kwoat, Dr. Heywood Jawrithis and their know-it-all computer companion, Pal 2010, have returned to planet Earth from Recover Space Station a million miles away. They are on a new...
By Andrew G. Simpson
Sep 5 2005 // A New York excess lines insurance broker’s use of “sham declinations” to skirt the law on placing coverage with a non-admitted carrier could cost the broker a lot more than just regulatory fines, if a...
