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By Bryant Rousseau, PropertyCasualty360.com |
May 21, 2012
Bill Pritchard, president of Beacon Hill Associates—a wholesale broker specializing exclusively in environmental-insurance solutions for commercial insureds—discusses emerging risks in this space, pricing and the new business opportunities presented by standard contractors.
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May 7, 2012
PC360 speaks with Bill Pritchard, president of Beacon Hill Associates, a wholesale broker specializing exclusively in environmental-insurance solutions for commercial insureds. He addresses capacity, pricing, emerging risks, and top-of-mind concerns among both buyers and carriers.
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By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com |
March 8, 2012
Alan Kaufman, president and CEO of wholesale brokerage Burns & Wilcox, says the “economy is still very rough.”
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By Mark E. Ruquet |
March 1, 2012
Itasca, Ill.-based insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher says it is expanding its excess and surplus-lines business into Louisiana with the acquisition of First Premium Insurance Group Inc.
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By Mark E. Ruquet |
February 9, 2012
Winston-Salem, N.C.-based bank BB&T Corp. has acquired Roseland, N.J.-based wholesale-insurance broker Crump Group Inc.
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By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com |
February 3, 2012
Winston-Salem, N.C.-based bank BB&T Corp. has acquired Roseland, N.J.-based wholesale-insurance broker Crump Group Inc.
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By Dave Lenckus |
February 1, 2012
Although insurance capacity for catastrophic perils is still available and affordable, some experts say last year’s huge losses already are driving up insurance costs and could shrink capacity, federal financial assistance or both.
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By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com |
December 1, 2011
An attempt by federal lawmakers to broaden the definition of “disability” has created a difficult situation for employers, and insurers are already seeing the result with an increase of employment-practices liability claims related to recent amendments of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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By Louie Castoria |
December 1, 2011
In litigation, the best defense is the one someone else pays for
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By Joan E. Collier, PropertyCasualty360.com |
November 28, 2011
As in previous years, our December issue offers a retrospective of the topics we covered over these past 12 months. We provided extensive coverage on property insurance, legislative and regulatory actions, workers' compensation, excess and surplus lines, agency management topics, health care, and many of the ancillary lines of coverage...