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By George Rothert
Jul 18 2005 // Working With E&S Wholesalers: Be Nice You’ll Need Them Again! The surplus lines industry pendulum is now on its backswing into a soft market. A couple years of market restriction and firm pricing brought a...
By George Rothert
Jul 18 2005 // Working With Your E&S Wholesaler: Be Nice You’ll Need Them Again! The surplus lines industry pendulum is now on its backswing into a soft market. A couple years of market restriction and firm pricing brought a...
Working With E&S Wholesalers: Be Nice … You’ll Need Them Again!
Jul 18 2005 // The surplus lines industry pendulum is now on its backswing into a soft market. A couple years of market restriction and firm pricing brought a temporary prosperity to the industry. The so-called “standard”...
Working With Your E&S Wholesaler: Be Nice … You’ll Need Them Again!
Jul 18 2005 // The surplus lines industry pendulum is now on its backswing into a soft market. A couple years of market restriction and firm pricing brought a temporary prosperity to the industry. The so-called “standard”...
For Retail Risk Managers, Workplace Violence and Staff Turnover Proving Top Challenges
Apr 18 2005 // Workplace violence and staff turnover are cited by risk managers in the retail industry as among their biggest challenges to effectively managing their workers’ compensation exposures. According to a recent study...
Doing the Right Thing Brings Rewards for SRA’s John Wood
Apr 18 2005 // Specialty Risk Associates, a managing general agency headquartered in Shreveport, La., has been on the move in the past several years–expanding beyond its Louisiana base into neighboring states–and has plans to...
Agents Beware: Due Diligence is Now Required
Apr 4 2005 // Transactions between retail agents and brokers they place business through just became more labor intensive. I recently testified as an expert in a federal case involving a reputable agency’s failure to conduct...
Agents Beware: Due Diligence is Now Required
Mar 21 2005 // Transactions between retail agents and brokers they place business through just became more labor intensive. I recently testified as an expert in a federal case involving a reputable agency’s failure to conduct...
Retailers Reel in the Perfect Catch
Feb 21 2005 // Response Time, Service Crucial When Selecting E&S Brokers, IJ Survey Reports Retail agents and brokers consider service and response time delivered by excess and surplus lines brokers to be critical factors when...
Kings & Pawns: Excess Brokers’ Moves and Mergers
Feb 21 2005 // The emergence of large national and regional firms and the creation of networks of brokers as industry kings are transforming the nation’s wholesale insurance marketplace but experts maintain that independent...
E&S Markets Medium, Softening Across the Board
Feb 21 2005 // Rising property prices and a healthy economy after the election year have encouraged competition for casualty business. Although account size is sometimes a factor in the directions prices move, E&S specialists say...
Fla. Suing Jewelry Retailer
Feb 7 2005 // Florida is suing Savannah-based Friedman’s Inc. retail jewelry chain, alleging it sold millions of dollars worth of insurance on jewelry items but didn’t disclose the costs to consumers. Friedman’s, which...
Affirmative Acquires Assets of Agencies in Florida, Texas
Dec 23 2004 // Addison, Texas-based Affirmative Insurance Holdings Inc. reported it has signed definitive agreements to acquire the assets of two non-standard automobile insurance agency operations. In two separate transactions,...
U.K.’s Highway Insurance Acquires Direct Motorline
Nov 3 2004 // The U.K.’s Highway Insurance Holdings has confirmed the acquisition of telebroker Direct Motorline Limited for £3.4 million ($6.2 million) plus £0.6 million ($1.1 million) in respect of tangible net assets. Direct...
Wausau Introduces GL/Property Package ‘Wausau Express’ for Retail Businesses
Oct 12 2004 // Wisconsin-based Wausau Insurance has introduced Wausau Express, a new package policy for property and general liability that will streamline coverage and save money for retail businesses. The Wausau Express package policy...
Building Relationships Key to Success Says NAPSLO’s Incoming President
Sep 20 2004 // Polizzi Prepares to Take the Reins at Orlando Convention Thirty years ago a small group of surplus lines professionals met in Miami Beach, Fla., to form what would be known today as the National Association of Surplus...
Growth Determines Retail, Wholesale Broker’s Value
Sep 20 2004 // Sustaining Progress in a Changing Rate Environment The wind has been at the back of insurance agents and brokers for the past several years and has resulted in smooth sailing. Organic growth rates have been in double...
Convenience Stores
Aug 23 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Cascade/Amstar is offering a new market for convenience stores including gas and propane sales. Package coverage is available, maximum fire legal limit: $100,000; gas sales must be less than 50 percent...
Swett & Crawford Forms Professional Services Division
Jul 19 2004 // The Power of Many Specialists Rolled into One With the softening market at the front door of the insurance industry, brokers in the wholesale industry have been scurrying about to prepare for the inevitable dawn of hard...
Business Made Easy Integrated Technology Solutions Key to Success
May 17 2004 // Just what are independent agents looking for when it comes to technology? That was the question posed to a number of industry experts who all seemed in agreement—in order to compete in today’s workplace...
