Las Vegas--With the industry in the throes of another softening market, a pattern has emerged showing some insurers and reinsurers entering and exiting the public risk arena in an effort to gain new ma
SOME AGENTS develop a specialty carefully and deliberately. Others--like me--fall into them by happenstance. Acordia's marketing department hired me right out of college to work at its service desk, where I found myself dealing with
This philosophy, posted on the web site of Public Risk Insurance Agency (PRIA), the public-entity division for Brown & Brown Insurance, provides marching orders for serving Florida's myriad
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
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,
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services today upgraded its ratings for Argonaut Group Inc., citing the San Antonio, Texas-based property-casualty insurer's improved profits and capitalization.The ...
Public Entity RMs Advised On Terror In this time of war, as the threat of foreign retaliatory terrorism continues to mount, many United States public ...
B&B Expands Public Entity PracticeNU Online News Service, March 24, 11:51 a.m. EST?Daytona Beach, Fla.-based insurance broker Brown & Brown Inc. has acquired two managing ...