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By Michael P. Voelker |
December 13, 2011
With the economy impacting the operating budgets of agencies and carriers alike, CSRs are being asked to do more and do it faster—a task that requires an effective agency-carrier technology partnership.
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By Douglas A. Mang, Gary R. Sumner |
September 29, 2011
This year, one of the Florida Surplus Lines Association’s main objectives was to eliminate the due diligence requirement for those commercial lines coverages that have been deregulated as to a rate approval.
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By Joan E. Collier, PropertyCasualty360.com |
September 29, 2011
Roy V. Fabry, CPCU, is the new president of the Florida Surplus Lines Association. We spoke with President Fabry about the association, its goals and challenges, and the current status of Florida’s market.
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By Robert Regis Hyle, PropertyCasualty360.com |
September 6, 2011
The outlook for commercial lines carriers often is cloudier than for their personal lines brethren. A commitment to change—and the mantra ease of business—is clearing things greatly for carriers and agents alike.
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By Robert Regis Hyle, PropertyCasualty360.com |
August 10, 2011
The number one request agents have made when the issue of small commercial policies comes up is to find a way to conduct the transaction in a way that’s less expensive for the agents, according to Ralph Blust, executive vice president for Willis Commercial Network.
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By Laura Mazzuca Toops, PropertyCasualty360.com |
July 1, 2011
The real-time interface between producers and carriers continues to be fine-tuned, even for the sometimes contentious areas of larger commercial business and E&S.
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By Paul Fowkes, Ryan Hasanbasic |
June 28, 2011
As a wholesale broker, you had absolutely no direct engagement with the retail agent’s customer. No calls, no letters, no emails. So why is he suing you?
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By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com |
June 3, 2011
Managing general agents (MGA) face the daunting technology challenge of having to act as a data go-between with all the many groups with which they have relationships—so their focus remains on the basics, not next-generation technology.
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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 Susan R. A. Honeyman |
December 10, 2010
Insuring a single vacant property can have its challenges, but suppose a vacant parcel is part of a complex holding that includes occupied and foreclosed properties?
