Agency Management

If the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement opened a costly investigation of your business and employment practices, would the legal costs be covered under your existing employment practices liability insurance policy?

Proposed legislation denying tax deductions for reinsurance premiums paid to offshore affiliates will likely pass through Congress, a Bermuda executive predicted recently, but he criticized the measure as a restriction of free trade.

Fear of wage-and-hour claims is escalating among buyers and sellers of employment practices liability insurance, with sellers' fears limiting EPLI solutions for small employers--and resulting in none at all for the largest ones, market participants report.

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. said it has acquired the operations of Bowen, Miclette, Britt & Merry of Arkansas Inc. in Fort Smith, Ark., from Bowen, Miclette & Britt Insurance Agency, LLC in Houston.

Federally mandated insurance is preventing many contractors from taking part in the oil cleanup in the Gulf of Mexico from the BP oil spill.

Insurance agents and brokers seeking to break into the Hispanic marketplace in the Northeast can find some help with the launch of a new association aimed at helping producers grow their business.