Viewpoint: Challenging P/C Market Generates Opportunities for Surplus Lines’ Writers May 8, 2025 By David Blades The U.S. surplus lines market notched double-digit year-over-year (YoY) premium growth from 2018-2023, as wholesale brokers tapped this market with...
Increased Writings in Homeowners Adds to US Surplus Lines Growth April 29, 2025 By Chad Hemenway Increasing movement of homeowners insurance risk to the U.S. surplus lines market has continued to contribute to growth for nonadmitted...
As E&S Market Growth Hits New Heights, Some Risk May Be There to Stay: AM Best September 24, 2024 By Chad Hemenway In 2023 the U.S. surplus lines market for the first time surpassed the $100 billion mark in direct premiums written,...
U.S. Surplus Lines Premium Up 22% in 2021 January 26, 2022 Surplus lines premium increased 22% and transactions rebounded almost 6.6% over their 2020 totals in the 15 states with designated...
New CEO Levinson on Rebuilding Lexington Insurance October 2, 2019 By Andrea Wells Success for a specialty lines carrier is about discipline. It’s about walking away from classes of business or lines of...
How New Business Is Creating a New Wholesaler-Retailer Relationship October 2, 2018 By Andrea Wells An influx of new business is presenting surplus lines wholesalers and their retail partners with new opportunities to work together...
Surplus Lines Market Had a Record Breaking Year in 2017 January 31, 2018 Across the United States, all 15 surplus lines service offices experienced increases in excess and surplus (E&S) lines insurance premium,...
SLSOT Using Data to Better Communicate with Surplus Line Market Stakeholders August 4, 2016 By Stephanie K. Jones Surplus lines may not be the most widely understood segment of the property/casualty insurance industry but for risk managers of...
Wildfires, and Now El NiƱo May Boost Californian’s Appetites for Surplus Lines November 3, 2015 By Don Jergler There’s little question that the drought and the recent wildfire season that it unleashed pushed more California homeowners into the...
New Delaware Law to Help Lift Producers’ Surplus Lines Administrative Burden May 6, 2015 Delaware insurance producers’ administrative burden when placing business in the surplus lines market will be lighter thanks to passage of...