Agent & Broker

As seen daily in the news, lenders are foreclosing on homes at a record pace. This has created a need for lending institutions--and their agents and brokers--to pay closer attention to the insurance on

"Put him to bed and let him cry himself to sleep." Those were the ominous words my mother heard from the doctor after realizing she had created an expectation monster with yours truly. It started innocently enough. When she brought me home from the

Fall is here and winter is approaching. Soon Thanksgiving will arrive, and you know what that means: Schoolchildren will be having turkey-coloring contests, local organizations will be fundraising with turkey shoots and houses will burn to the ground

Failure to spot clerical error no bar to equitable reformation of policyIn 1998, a company bought a comprehensive commercial property insurance policy. Among other things, it provided $5 million in earthquake coverage for various buildings the

As a robin or crocus is often regarded as a sign of spring, so is the appearance of a reinsurance broker promoting "reverse flow" business a sure indication of a wicked soft market. Actually, a more apt comparison might be to a groundhog's retreat

(The following article was derived from Ms. Nettles' presentation at the AMS Users' Group 32nd National Conference, held last March at the Gaylord Palms Resort in Orlando, Fla.) I would like to approach this article

Say the words "financial institution," and a money-center bank or a big regional bank with a correspondingly big ad budget often comes to mind. But in many small towns, a financial institution often takes the form of

As the market continues to soften, program business is drawing increasing attention from insurers, who value program administrators' ability to use niche-specific knowledge to underwrite coverage profitably. If a