energy sector

• Energy Claims: Surviving a High-Severity Business

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  March 4, 2013

  When something bad happens in the energy sector, it tends to happen big: There are no small losses.

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  Energy Insurance: An Alternative Universe

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  March 4, 2013

  For producers and carriers looking for opportunities in the energy sector, one word sums up where a lot of the growth is occurring: alternative.

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  Energy Insurance: Meet the Experts Slideshow

  By PC360 Staff  |  March 1, 2013

  For producers and carriers looking for opportunities in the energy sector, one word sums up where a lot of the growth is occurring: alternative. Click to read the perspectives of several of the top minds on Energy insurance and the forward edge of alternative energy.

• New Hires and Promotions at Vertafore, The Hartford, Lockton, Hylant and More - Around the Industry

  By Staff Writer  |  February 28, 2013

  New programs from Allied World and The Mechanic Group, NAS Insurance Services, ISO and Victor O. Schinnerer & Co.

• New Hires and Promotions at Ames & Gough, Hylant, Iron-Starr and More - Around the Industry

  By Staff Writer  |  February 6, 2013

  New programs from Allied World, CompleteMarket, Amerlnst Professional, Adaptick Corp. and Dual Specialty. Philadelphia Insurance Cos. named one of America's Top Workplaces. The Griffith Insurance Education Foundation named new leadership council members.

• Climate Change & Insurance: Existential Threat—or Extraordinary Opportunity?

  By Bryant Rousseau, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  February 5, 2013

  Few—if any—industries would seem to face a greater existential threat from the effects of climate change than insurance. As flood waters rise, as hurricanes and tornadoes grow more intense and as droughts last longer, trillions of dollars of insured assets are at risk. In the ugliest scenario imaginable, even the...

• Protecting the Grid: Risk Management in Electric Utilities

  By Anya Khalamayzer, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  September 17, 2012

  Electric utilities are highly complex and technical businesses, and their risk managers face a daunting array of threats to employees, customers and physical assets.

• Despite Deepwater Horizon Disaster, Environmental Market Still Favors Buyers

  By Michael P. Voelker  |  March 15, 2012

  For weeks on end in 2010, live footage of a ruptured pipeline spewing oil underwater in the Gulf of Mexico served as a 24/7 reminder of the potential for environmental devastation. Underwriters and brokers dealing with Environmental insurance initially feared the worst in terms of the disaster’s impact on the...

• Hartwig Talks Up ‘New Trajectory of Growth’ for Economy, Industry

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  February 16, 2012

  For a while, Insurance Information Institute President Robert Hartwig has been telling anyone who’ll listen that we will not experience a double-dip recession and that global crises would not derail recovery in the economy.

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  Hartwig: U.S. Insurers Should Look at ‘New Trajectory of Growth’

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  February 13, 2012

  The insurance industry “needs to not just ride the rising tide" of rate increases but rather focus on new drivers of today's economic recovery in order to tap growth opportunities, says a leading industry observer.

• MarketScout: May P&C Market Declines 4 Percent

  By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  June 10, 2011

  Despite market conditions that should be edging pricing up, the U.S. property and casualty market still remains soft with composite rates in May running at minus-4 percent, according to online insurance-exchange MarketScout.

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  MarketScout: May P&C Market Decline At 4 Percent

  By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  June 6, 2011

  Despite market conditions that should be edging pricing up, the U.S. property and casualty market still remains soft with composite rates in May running at minus-4 percent, according to the online insurance exchange MarketScout.

• Ride the Green Train to...Where?

  By Nina Lill  |  June 1, 2011

  Not too many years ago, "green" looked like the new black for property-casualty insurance agents. Now, many see green in shades of gray due to the slow economy, lack of capital investment and no definitive compass to where green growth will occur and how it will be sustained.

• Sunny Days Ahead For Agents With Expertise On Solar Energy Coverage

  By Lauren Berry  |  May 16, 2011

  The insurance needs of homeowners and businesses will evolve as they upgrade their property with green technology, and agents who can position themselves as knowledgeable on the topic and who check in with clients to discuss renewable-energy investments and exposures will be providing a valuable service to customers—and giving themselves...

• E&S: Growth Opportunities Available, But Distribution Channel Under Pressure

  By Phil Gusman, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  March 7, 2011

  In a soft market, excess and surplus-lines executives have managed to identify some growth areas and have found the time ripe for technology investments and recruiting talent. But survival demands innovation.

• Advisen: Rumblings Of Turnaround In Insurance Market

  By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  December 15, 2010

  The soft market is expected to continue unabated into 2011, but there are signs that insurers are beginning to hedge risks and become more circumspect about those that they accept, according to a group of experts.