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Agency takes insurance relationships a step further to become business partners with clients, promoting behavior that improves loss outcomes

For an insurance agency servicing the global trade and transportation industry to be successful, it needs to be as fast and efficient as its logistics-obsessed clients.

Given the recent deadline for second-quarter 2012 estimated tax payments on June 15, your accounting-firm clients have been busier than usual. With another rush of deadlines, they have probably not been thinking about the need to have adequate insurance in place to cover a major setback. But given current economic...

For many businesses, the start of the 2012 U.S. East Coast hurricane season coincides with a particularly precarious time: Although the economy in some areas of the world appears to be edging toward recovery, budgets remain tight and insurance rates for Property Catastrophe coverage are up as much as 25...

From a single-owner-operated company to one with a payroll as high as $10 million, carriers (and plenty of them) in the small-business segment are fluid, adjusting constantly to emerging risks for businesses with navetand without risk managers.

In just a few short weeks the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit will be descending upon the city of Chicago. Whether your business has customers, employees, suppliers or property in the Windy City, the summit could impact your operations.

Hundreds of exhibitors representing myriad insurance interests and specialties assembled at the Risk and Insurance Management Societys 50th annual meeting in Philadelphia. National Underwriter met with them to discuss some of the new offerings they presented to the thousands of risk-management attendees on hand for the four-day event.

After the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, major companies are beginning to examine risk-management strategies for their supply chains in China, as that country is exposed to many of the same natural-catastrophe risks as Japan and is a larger supply-chain hub for many companies, according to a new...