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Despite the current soft market and economic challenges, the best-run larger insurance agencies are hiring new personnel and increasing their staff size, a trade group report said.
A new section of a health care reform legislation proposal would let agents sell insurance to individuals and businesses purchasing health insurance through the health exchanges being proposed.
An agent's association said it believes certain insurance companies are demanding confidential information about independent agents' books of business so it can bypass them on sales.
The world's two major insurance brokers earned a 100 percent positive rating on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) issues from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.
Willis Group Holdings Ltd. said it has completed its acquisition of Herzfeld Willis S.A. (retail operation) and Willis S.A. (reinsurance operation) in Argentina. Terms of the deal were not released.
Many European firms are unaware that under the European Union Environmental Liability Directive they face giant cleanup costs for environmental pollution incidents, Aon brokerage is cautioning businesses.
While recent comments by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke suggest the nearly two-year-long recession may be nearing an end, the economic downturn is likely to remain a force behind additional and potentially uninsured risks for a long time.
Low pricing conditions are expected to continue into next year as more capital begins flowing back into the insurance market and the economy improves, Guy Carpenter's chief economist said.
Airline insurance placements saw their third straight month of premium increase pointing to an increasingly hardening market in that sector, Aon insurance brokerage said.
It was quite an honor sitting next to Charlotte Spencer--widow of Robert Spencer, the pioneer in risk management for whom the Spencer Educational Foundation is named.