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Which states seem to be investing in their roads and highways while safeguarding those who navigate them?

As the economy begins to turn, competition in Transportation and Construction coverage are heating up the Inland Marine Specialty Insurance segment.

Inland-marine insurers are faced with a thinning and aging talent pool in a line of insurance that requires highly specialized industry and insurance knowledge, according to a recent Conning Research & Consulting report.

Inland-marine insurers are faced with a thinning and aging talent pool in a line of insurance that requires highly specialized industry and insurance knowledge, according to a recent Conning Research & Consulting report.

Inland-marine insurers are faced with a thinning and aging talent pool in a line of insurance that requires highly specialized industry and insurance knowledge, according to a recent Conning Research & Consulting report.

An overriding theme of the latest wave of mergers and acquisitions in the insurance industry: strategic buys of specialty-flavored books is specialization.

Although inland marine doesn’t lend itself to formulaic underwriting, newcomers see the line’s traditionally low 87 combined loss ratio—and want in on the action, says Kevin O’Brien, president of the Inland Marine Underwriters Association (IMUA).

Inland Marine carriers are dealing with a soft market, increased competition in this historically profitable niche, and new federal regulations that complicate the assessment of risk.