Crying?? There’s no crying in baseball. — Tom Hanks in A League of Their Own Bill Cadenhead had decided to sell his 73 percent stake in Cadenhead Shreffler Insurance in Bedford, Tex. to insurance giant Brown & Brown when he …
E&S Industry Returns to Familiar Ground Neither wind, nor rain nor the dark cloud of standard carriers returning to the marketplace will keep excess and surplus insurance writers from maintaining profitability. From coast-to-coast the E&S industry is going back to …
Community banks have come a long way since Jimmy Stewart’s character struggled to keep the Bailey Building and Loan alive to support the residents in Bedford Falls in Frank Capra’s 1946 classic “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Insuring these institutions has …
Like a commercial airline scrambling to squeeze out a profit in the face of increased competition and skyrocketing fuel prices, many insurance agents find themselves caught in the downward spiral of another soft market cycle. An abundance of capacity coupled …
Like most insurance companies, the soft market took its toll on Safeco. While the property and casualty side of the business continued to suffer losses that resembled the gross national product of some Latin American countries, the board of directors …
Insurance policies to cover the multi-year, multi-million dollar salaries of professional baseball players may soon be as hard to locate as a split-fingered fastball from a southpaw relief pitcher. The hardening insurance market coupled with skyrocketing salaries of premier players …
Insurance policies to cover the multi-year, multi-million dollar salaries of professional baseball players may soon be as hard to locate as a split-fingered fastball from a southpaw relief pitcher. The hardening insurance market coupled with skyrocketing salaries of premier players …
The term “Big Brother” has been tossed around casually since George Orwell introduced the term to the world in his novel, 1984. The concept of big government looking over the shoulder and into the bedrooms of ordinary citizens has become …
The term “Big Brother” has been tossed around casually since George Orwell introduced the term to the world in his novel, 1984. The concept of big government looking over the shoulder and into the bedrooms of ordinary citizens has become …
Mailboxes throughout the West have been rapidly filling with literature outlining the “Privacy Policy” of virtually every organization that has ever taken a credit application. As the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) takes hold, predictions of massive corporate mergers, acquisitions and blending …
