National Association of Professional Surplus Lines offices

• NIMA Offering States Limited 'Associate Membership' at No Cost

  By Elizabeth D. Festa  |  April 10, 2013

  The Nonadmitted Insurance Multistate Agreement is now offering states an associate membership at no cost for one year, banking on the prospect that states will see that they are leaving money on the table, and join up.

• NAPSLO Founding Member, Mitchell M. Gwinn Jr., Dies at 85

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  March 13, 2013

  Mitchell M. Gwinn, Jr., one of the founding members of the National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices (NAPSLO), has died.

• Reporter’s Notebook: NAPSLO Mid-Year Leadership Forum

  March 8, 2013

  The National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices (NAPSLO) came full circle on Feb 25-27 by returning to where the organization got its start—the Eden Roc Resort in Miami Beach—for its Mid-Year Leadership Forum. Nearly 600 attendees gathered in the city where the association was birthed in 1974, when an...

• 2013 Calendar of Events Highlights

  December 13, 2012

  Mark your calendars now for the major industry meetings and conventions of the coming year.

• NAPSLO Notebook: Scene & Heard

  By Bryant Rousseau and Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  October 22, 2012

  NATIONAL UNDERWRITER had two reporters on site in Atlanta Oct. 8-10 at the National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices’ (NAPSLO) annual convention: Editor-in-Chief Bryant Rousseau and Chad Hemenway, senior editor, markets. Here are their reports from the show floor, along with comments from several NAPSLO board members on what...

• NRRA Update: NIMA Clearinghouse Now Up and Operational in 6 Jurisdictions

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  October 15, 2012

  The Nonadmitted Insurance Multistate Agreement (NIMA), the surplus-lines revenue-sharing agreement supported by five states and Puerto Rico, began Phase 2 of its implementation schedule on Oct. 1.

• Income Statements, Not Balance Sheets, Driving E&S Rate Increases

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  October 1, 2012

  The E&S market may be seeing some positive rate movement, but a lack of supply or capacity isn’t the reason, says Lexington Insurance Co. President David Bresnahan.

• Income Statements, Not Balance Sheets, Driving E&S Rate Increases

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  September 25, 2012

  The excess and surplus lines market may be seeing some positive rate movement, but a lack of supply or capacity isn’t the reason.

• Nevada Withdraws from NIMA, Leaving 5 States Plus Puerto Rico

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  July 3, 2012

  Nevada has become the latest state to withdraw from the Nonadmitted Insurance Multistate Agreement, leaving only five states and Puerto Rico as members.

• #10 Dick Bouhan: Today’s Specialty

  By Arthur D. Postal and Phil Gusman, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  June 25, 2012

  If pure performance is the primary criteria by which a business executive’s stature should be judged, then Dick Bouhan is truly a legend.

• Hawaii Withdraws from NIMA; Clearinghouse to Be Launched July 1

  By Arthur D. Postal PropertyCasualty360.com  |  June 14, 2012

  Hawaii has withdrawn from the Nonadmitted Insurance Multistate Agreement, leaving that coalition with only seven members.

• NIMA Accepts Compromise to Implement NRRA Tax-Sharing Provision

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  May 25, 2012

  The Non-Admitted Insurance Multi-State Agreement has adopted the revenue-sharing agreement of a rival compact in an apparent effort to jumpstart creation of a uniform system to implement a premium-tax-sharing component of the federal surplus-lines reform law.

• Danielle S. Wade Continues Young Agent Discussion - nGI

  By nGI  |  May 21, 2012

  Danielle S. Wade talks about her father, future goals and taking out the trash.

• New Surplus Lines Course Ideal for New Hires

  By Staff Writer  |  May 1, 2012

  NAPSLO and The Institutes join forces to create an online primer about surplus lines fundamentals.

• Wisconsin Passes NRRA-Related Surplus-Lines Legislation

  By Staff Writer  |  April 16, 2012

  Wisconsin, which did not take action on implementing the federal Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act last year, has now passed such legislation, a National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices bulletin states.

• NAPSLO Exec: NRRA Benefits Evident; Tax-Sharing Agreement Not Likely

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  March 23, 2012

  The benefits of the surplus-lines-modernization law enacted in 2010 are already being felt through greater efficiency in the marketplace and likely lower premiums for customers, according to an official of the National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices.