American Wholesale Insurance Group (AmWINS) announced today that Parthenon Capital, LLC, a Boston-based private equity firm, has acquired a 70 percent majority of its ...
Preliminary estimates for insured losses in Floridafrom Hurricane Wilma could range from $2 billion to $6 billion, according to Eqecat, Inc., the Oakland, Calif.-based ...
Hurricane Rita could mean more than property damage losses for insurers in the energy and chemical manufacturing sector, insurance brokers said."The big issue facing ...
Florida Reforms Keep The Heat On WC RatesFlorida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty's move to reduce workers' compensation rates by a statewide average of 5.1 percent ...
?Six Sigma was developed as a tool to help businesses cure the ills plaguing some unsuccessful processes in their operations. But for those companies that ...
Many agencies' small-business departments consist of one or two account managers handling overflow accounts that commercial-lines producers don't want. Our agency, however, built a small-business unit with four producers and two account managers who
ONE OF the key roles of the excess and surplus-lines marketplace is to function as a "relief valve" during hard markets. When standard insurers start restricting their underwriting or pull out of certain states or classes of business altogether,
Asbestos illness is a disease and not a bodily accident injury covered by workers' compensation policies, the United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, ...
Risk Managers Fear Workplace Training TrapsThe vice president of human resources of a large manufacturing company with operations in seven states called the EPL hotline ...