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Fitch Analyst

James Auden, Fitch: stable outlook for broker industry in 2006 New York-Chicago-based Fitch Ratings is predicting stability and growth for...

News Currents

Allstate releasing 700 employees The Chicago Tribune reported that Allstate Corp., the nation’s second-biggest auto and homeowner’s insurer after Bloomington-based...

People

Linda S. Downs, a Brown & Brown regional executive vice president, has been promoted to the newly formed position of...

Managing Your Agency

For smaller companies, such as small and medium sized insurance agencies, outsourcing can be a valuable, even critical tool to...

Editor’s note: This recurring feature examining insurance coverage decisions was compiled by the New York-based law firm of Goldberg Segalla...

E&S Market

The surplus lines market remains alive, healthy and stable. Few argue with the success of this niche-based market, which has...

California Insurance Industry

I nsurers are cultivating California’s economy. In fact, the insurance industry benefits “the economic security of California and its citizens...

News Currents

Risk models show industry burden under TRIA The extension of the federal Terrorism Risk Insurance Act represents solvency protection in...

Compensation overall

Last year was not a big year for raises in independent insurance agencies as salaries in many agencies across the...