Commercial Lines

With chatter about the next market turn heating up, experienced niche-market participants don’t anticipate a replay of the gut-wrenching turmoil that left some program administrators out in the cold during the last turn. But that doesn’t mean program books won’t need to be mended or that some carrier retrenchment from...

Mark your calendars! NU provides highlights of some upcoming specialty market insurance events, including the Target Market Program Administrators Midyear Meeting in Boston and NAPSLO’s upcoming webinar on NRRA implications.

What is NU's Next Question of Ethics? Dr. Peter R. Kensicki invites readers to weigh in.

In spite of competitive conditions in the specialty program business segment, an insurance industry analyst doesn’t see any flashing red alerts signaling major troubles ahead for program carriers so far in 2011.

Aon Benfield launched what it says is the first storm-surge model for Germany to help reinsurers and insurers quantify risk in an “underdeveloped line of coverage.”

Aon Benfield launched what it says is the first storm-surge model for Germany to help reinsurers and insurers quantify risk in an “underdeveloped line of coverage.”

As agencies focus on survival, they often overlook critical aspects of their own businesses, potentially placing themselves in a vulnerable spot. Agencies need to evaluate their own professional liability insurance coverage to be sure they are properly protected, according to Burns & Wilcox’s Rochelle Elliott.

For the agents and brokers writing commercial-lines insurance for Main Street clients, business remains tough—but some tepid signs of improvement have begun, tentatively, to appear.