Building MGA-Retailer Relationships: It's A Matter Of TrustCommunication and accountability are also key relationship factorsThe relationships forged between MGAs and agents should transcend market ...
Know Thy Risk; Know Thy WholesalerRetailers who are clueless about accounts, markets lose MGA's respectA retailer that tells David Price, executive vice president of ...
Let's Dance!Just four years ago, as the property-casualty insurance market was entering its hardest phase, many of the articles I wrote about the excess ...
Choose Wholesale Partners WiselyFiling surplus lines taxes and being available for golf are not true measures of good wholesale broker's worthBy Peter R. TaffaeAs ...
RSS = Really Simple SolutionEffective communication often means putting your message into the simplest formpossiblea strategy that also may apply to the tools you use ...
WHEN most agents and brokers think about public-entity business, arranging insurance for cities, counties and school districts is what comes to mind. But there are many other governmental units that need protection too, and I've built my career
Alea Group Holdings (Bermuda) Ltd. and Paris-based SCOR announced that SCOR has agreed to buy the renewal rights of Alea Europe--making this the third ...
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. said it has acquired InterPacific Underwriting Agencies Pty Ltd. of Sydney, Australia.Terms of the deal were not released.The Itasca, ...
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,