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New Markets

Retail Shopping Centers Nuts & Bolts: Argonaut Group Inc.’s Select Markets segment is expanding its line of products and services to include the retail shopping center marketplace. Highlights include specialized benefits such as coordinated policies for comprehensive landlord-tenant liability coverage, …

New Markets

Retail Carts Nuts & Bolts: General liability, including contractual liability, personal injury and advertising injury liability for retail cart vendors operating concessions and exhibits is available from K&K Insurance Group Inc. This program is specifically tailored for concessionaires, exhibitors and …

When insuring international trade, expect the world

Think how few things you and your clients wear, use or drive that are wholly made in the USA, and you get a sense of the magnitude of international trade. International trade also is no longer the domain of global …

New Markets

Retail Shopping Centers Nuts & Bolts: Argonaut Group Inc.’s Select Markets segment is expanding its line of products and services to include the retail shopping center marketplace. Highlights include specialized benefits such as coordinated policies for comprehensive landlord-tenant liability coverage, …

When insuring international trade, expect the world

Shipments are delayed, damaged, lost or stolen around the globe with a frequency that is probably not surprising. What is surprising is how significantly the effects of those losses could be mitigated. Think how few things you and your clients …

New Markets

Retail Carts Nuts & Bolts: General liability, including contractual liability, personal injury and advertising injury liability for retail cart vendors operating concessions and exhibits is available from K&K Insurance Group Inc. This program is specifically tailored for concessionaires, exhibitors and …

New breed of pampered pet services creates market for insurers

With pet-friendly hotels, doggie happy hours and pet massages available today, this world might truly have gone to the dogs—and cats. According to the American Pet Products Manufacturers Association Inc., 63 percent of households, or 69.1 million homes own a …

‘Mom & Pop’ dry cleaning market hangs on environmental issues

While franchises and large company mergers have changed the landscape of businesses across the United States, the “Mom and Pop” structure of most dry cleaning facilities continues to be successful. With approximately 30,000 drycleaners in the United States, dry cleaning …

Maryland Seeks Answers for Uninsured After Wal-Mart Law Nixed

With Maryland’s groundbreaking Wal-Mart health care bill declared invalid by a federal judge, state officials are re-examining their options for providing medical care to many of the almost 800,000 people who have no public or private health insurance. Key Democratic …

Study Shows Decline in Lead Poisoning Among Maryland Kids

Fewer Maryland children were found to have elevated blood lead levels, although six counties had small increases, according a recently released state study. Of the 99,148 children tested last year, 1.3 percent had elevated blood lead levels, compared to 1.7 …