Agency Management

Will Congress pass a health care reform bill this year? Cast your vote on NU's online poll at www.property-casualty.com.

Leading executives, regulators and top analysts will address the major challenges ahead at the 21st annual Executive Conference for the Property and Casualty Insurance Industry, set for Nov. 12-13 in New York City.

The announcement from Willis insurance brokerage of a bond-raising effort to pay down debt has led two rating agencies to revise the firm's outlook upwards.

As global concern grows over an outbreak of the H1N1 flu, most U.S. companies remain unprepared to realistically deal with an outbreak, a Marsh insurance brokerage executive said.

Former N.Y. superintendent Eric Dinallo, in a Daily News op-ed, explains why individuals must be required to buy health insurance, but is a public option also required? NU Editor In Chief Sam Friedman weighs in on his blog at www.NUSamSoapBox.com.

Agents and underwriters have always worked together on risks, trying to find common understanding and common ground.

New York's newly proposed producer compensation disclosure regulations are unacceptable, and without changes legal action is a possibility, a leading agent association executive warned last week.

Producers' acceptance of contingent commissions from insurers is "a clear conflict," but the controversial practice is unlikely to be banned unless more clients object to it.