Popular Program Market: New Programs Might Get a Chance June 6, 2016 By Andrea Wells The program insurance segment has been an attractive area for property/casualty carriers in recent years and interest doesn’t appear to...
Review of Q1 M&A Deal Activity June 6, 2016 By Christopher Darst Deal count for the first quarter of 2016 was down slightly relative to the record-breaking first quarter of 2015, but...
P/C Insurers Continue to See Slow Premium Growth and Rising Loss Ratios June 6, 2016 For U.S. property/casualty insurers, net written premium still grew in 2015, but the rate of expansion is slowing, and the...
P/C Commercial Insurance Business Expected to Deteriorate June 6, 2016 Underwriting performance for the commercial lines sector of the U.S. property/casualty (P/C) insurance industry is likely to deteriorate in 2016,...
Program Development: Time to Create Movement in the Industry June 6, 2016 Recently, differing opinion articles have been published about trends in the insurance industry. They range from the “have to have”...
Declarations June 6, 2016 Two Choices “At this point, we have two choices – work together toward an amicable solution or spend years in...
Why Insurance Agencies Can’t Ignore Bad Accounting June 6, 2016 By Chris Burand Take an industry, say independent insurance agencies, that is supposed to be sales-focused and where principals think accounting is boring....
Business Moves June 6, 2016 Risk Strategies, John Buttine Risk Strategies Co. has acquired John Buttine Inc., an insurance brokerage in New York City with...
10 Things to Know About Flood Insurance May 23, 2016 A large percentage of agents’ errors and omissions claims arise from failure to offer flood coverage. By offering flood coverage...
New Chief Donnell: Independence, Objectivity in Workers’ Comp Remain NCCI’s Core Values May 23, 2016 For more than 90 years the National Council of Compensation Insurance (NCCI) has served the workers’ compensation industry as a...