Top 5 Things Affecting Excess & Surplus Market in 2011 December 30, 2010 By Amy O'Connor It has been a challenging few years for those in the excess and surplus (E&S) lines insurance market. An endless...
Houston International Insurance Sells Southwest Risk to GCP Capital December 29, 2010 Houston International Insurance Group (HIIG) has sold its wholesale insurance broker subsidiary, Southwest Risk LP (SWR), to New York-based, private...
BIS Launches Lenders Misrepresentation Insurance December 29, 2010 Bakerjian Insurance Services (BIS) has launched of a new insurance product designed to protect lenders against potential damage from repurchase...
Brown & Brown Acquires Florida’s Comcover Insurance December 28, 2010 Insurance broker Brown & Brown of Florida Inc. has agreed to buy to buy substantially all of the assets of...
Southeast’s Top Stories: Disasters That Happened and 1 That Didn’t December 23, 2010 By Andrew G. Simpson The top insurance stories in the Southeast in 2010 included several disasters that caused considerable death and destruction in the...
Insurers’ Recent Success a Milestone in a Year of Chinese Drywall Litigation December 23, 2010 A federal judge in Louisiana recently let 10 insurance companies being sued by Louisiana homeowners over property damage resulting from...
12 Days of Riskmas: An Insurance Broker’s Story December 23, 2010 In giving her Christmas gifts for 12 straight days, a true love inspires his girlfriend to build a whole new...
USI Acquires Mastors & Servant in Rhode Island December 23, 2010 New York-based USI Holdings has closed on its acquisition of Mastors & Servant Risk Services, a Rhode Island-based brokerage that...
Democratic Congress Productive But Unpopular December 23, 2010 Perhaps never before has a U.S. Congress done more and been liked less than the one controlled by President Barack...
2010’s Top Insurance Stories in the West December 23, 2010 By Patricia-Anne Tom In 2009, independent insurance agents and brokers faced a “perfect storm” with the economic downturn, premiums at a fraction of...