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By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com, Phil Gusman, PropertyCasualty360.com, Anya Khalamayzer, PropertyCasualty360.com |
May 14, 2012
The P&C commercial market has officially achieved hard-market status, according to the Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers (CIAB)—although some executives at major carriers remain skeptical.
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By Staff Writer |
September 26, 2011
The horrific events of September 11, 2001 fundamentally altered the insurance industry in a multitude of ways. To examine those changes, we asked carrier executives, catastrophe modelers and five top risk managers to explain in their own words how the coverage landscape has been transformed in the wake of the...
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By National Underwriter Edit Staff |
September 9, 2011
Carrier executives, brokers, catastrophe modelers and risk managers talk to NU about how the industry has changed in the 10 years since 9/11.
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By National Underwriter Edit Staff |
September 9, 2011
The horrific events of September 11, 2001 fundamentally altered the insurance industry in a multitude of ways. To examine those changes, we asked carrier executives, catastrophe modelers and five top risk managers to explain in their own words how the coverage landscape has been transformed in the wake of the...
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By Susanne Sclafane, PropertyCasualty360.com |
August 12, 2011
There’s a silver lining in every cloud, and for specialty insurers there’s opportunity present in every emerging risk, two carrier executives say. Navigators’ Stanley Galanski and Aspen’s Mario Vitale see product opportunities in responding to emerging life sciences, environmental and supply-chain risks.
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By Phil Gusman, PropertyCasualty360.com |
March 11, 2011
After a panel of excess-and-surplus lines industry leaders recently expressed concerns about insurers abandoning the wholesale-distribution channel, two E&S carrier executives reiterated their commitment to both wholesaler brokers and surplus-lines business.
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By Susanne Sclafane, PropertyCasualty360.com |
February 21, 2011
The combination of corporate bankruptcies, high-dollar shareholder derivative lawsuit settlements and declines in Side-A pricing may soon turn a profitable niche of the directors and officers liability insurance market into a money loser, carrier executives say.
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By Susanne Sclafane, PropertyCasualty360.com |
November 24, 2010
Participants in the excess and surplus lines industry generally expect a replay of 2010 market conditions in 2011, but that does not mean they believe the soft market is a "new normal" for the property and casualty industry.
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By Susanne Sclafane, PropertyCasualty360.com |
May 24, 2010
Joseph Peloso, a veteran of the program business segment, remembers a time when unsolicited program proposals flooded the desks of property and casualty underwriters, offering more business than they could possibly handle.
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By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com |
May 11, 2010
Insurance company executives and independent agents disagree over just how easy insurers are making it to do business with them--an area of opportunity for carriers to expand their business, a survey suggests.
