While merger and acquisition deals between managing general agencies and wholesale brokers are becoming commonplace, a key component, the specialty carrier, is sometimes left out of the equation
With a major boost from Scottsdale Insurance Company, an excess and surplus lines insurance association expects to fully fund a $1 million endowment to Georgia State University, the group's executive
o More coverage of the recent NAPSLO midyear conference and AAMGA University Weekend, with insights from E&S/specialty insurance company CEOs and leaders of wholesale brokerage and MGAs on key trends
Bernie Heinze, executive director of the King of Prussia, Pa.-based American Association of Managing General Agents, said Scottsdale's unspecified "leadership gift"--the biggest gift pledged to date--me
The King of Prussia, Pa.-based AAMGA called Mr. Garcia "an inspiration and a leader to the AAMGA and the wholesale insurance market" as well as "a mentor to young insurance professionals and other ind
The E&S marketplace has had a heady run in the last decade, growing to nearly $38.7 billion in premium in 2006 from $9.2 billion in 1996, according to A.M. Best. Over the same period, its share of the commercial-lines market rose to 14.37% from
(The following article is based on part of a presentation that Mr. Heft made at the AAMGA University Weekend, which was held last August in Scottsdale, Ariz.) The demand for environmental insurance is definitely growing. In 1999 the market
WASHINGTON--Lobbying for passage of federal legislation aimed at modernizing the regulation of the surplus lines market along with companion state compacts will be the major focus of excess and surplus
The American Association of Managing General Agents said it has named Jeff Henry its director of education.Mr. Henry will remain an executive with American Modern ...
Michael Snead, the former chairman and president of Cherry Hill, N.J.-based surplus lines carrier Admiral Insurance Company, died last week in Horseheads, N.Y., after a long illness. He was 80 years o