January 22, 2018 Outlook for 2018 Directory: Excess, Surplus & Specialty Markets Volume I

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In this Issue

• Features
  Florida Appeals Court, Regulator Reject Policy Language Aimed at Curbing AOB Abuse
  A Florida appeals court has sided with the state's insurance...
• Features
  Proposed Security First policy language rejected by OIR
  For any assignment of benefits after a loss: 1.) You must disclose...
• Features
  North Carolina Rejects Proposed 18.7% Homeowners Rate Increase
  The Commissioner of Insurance for North Carolina says a recent rate...
• Features
  Kentucky Reports $10.5M Returned to Insurance Consumers in 2017
  The Kentucky Department of Insurance's (DOI) Consumer Protection...
• Features
  West Virginia’s Drug Overdose Rate Highest in Nation, Again
  West Virginia still leads the nation in the rate of drug overdose...
• Features
  Insurers Off The Hook for West Virginia Hole-in-One Tournament Payouts
  A federal appeals court says Gov. Jim Justice's charity is stuck with...
• People & Places
  People
  Anna Alexopoulos Farrar has joined the Florida Department of...

National Coverage

• Editor's Note
  2017 Disasters
  The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was busy in 2017 as it...
• Features
  Consolidation Continues: The Squeezing of Wholesale Brokers
  Wholesale insurance brokers have been selling off their businesses...
• Features
  Rates for Commercial Lines Up Slightly in Q4: IVANS
  The IVANS Index of premium rate renewals for the fourth quarter...
• Features
  For First Time in 7 Years, Outlook Improves for Commercial Lines: A.M. Best
  Analysts at A.M. Best have been sufficiently impressed by commercial...
• Features
  U.S. Reinsurance Outlook Remains Negative for 2018, Says A.M. Best
  Ratings firm A.M. Best said it is maintaining its 2018 outlook for...
• Features
  ‘Super Underwriter’ Hoopingarner Wins Insurance Journal’s ‘Coolest Part of Your Job’ Contest
  Insurance underwriter Aubrie Hoopingarner said she wound up working...
• Features
  The Road to Automated Vehicles Could Be Bumpy, Slow
  Driving automation promises to greatly improve the safety of human...
• Idea Exchange
  Tech Talk: The Real Threat to Agents from Amazon
  Amazon may be close to jumping back into insurance, at least in...
• Idea Exchange
  The Wedge: Two Pains in Life
  Have you ever laid in bed with the alarm going off and pushed the...
• Idea Exchange
  Minding Your Business: Making the Competition Irrelevant by Differentiation
  As competition intensifies, agency owners have found it increasingly...
• Idea Exchange
  5 Ways to Make 2018 the Best Year Yet
  Since New Year's resolutions have a 48-hour shelf life, many people...
• Declarations
  Declarations
  Campus Guns "College campuses as gun-free zones present an...
• Business Moves
  Business Moves
  Ryan Specialty Group LLC, Kerwick & Curran Inc. Ryan Specialty...
• New Markets
  New Markets
  Crane & Riggers - All-Lines Market Detail: As underwriting...

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