Agency Management

If it weren't for my former editor, Thomas J. Slattery, I would not be writing this blog today.

Joseph Peloso, a veteran of the program business segment, remembers a time when unsolicited program proposals flooded the desks of property and casualty underwriters, offering more business than they could possibly handle.

The three biggest insurance brokerages reported mixed results for the first quarter, with Aon seeing a big drop in net income, Marsh & McLennan reporting a substantial gain, and Willis a more modest jump.

A soft market hasn't stopped excess and surplus lines industry veterans from building and launching businesses--and wholesale brokerages have been as active as carriers in the early part of 2010.

Signs of life may be returning to the residential construction industry, but the recession has left banks and developers suffering an unpleasant hangover.

Non-U.S. organizations vaulted up a premium ranking of writers of excess and surplus lines insurance in the United States in 2009, although industrywide U.S. E&S premiums shrank for the third straight year.