E&S/Specialty

The Florida Surplus Lines Service Office has completed its 2011 education schedule and registration is now open.

Kentucky, New Mexico and Ohio have become the first states to enact comprehensive legislation implementing the surplus lines and reinsurance reform and modernization law.

While the Obama administration and several conservative organizations oppose climate litigation, feeling that the elected branches are better positioned to provide a sustainable national energy strategy, the U.S. Supreme Court will have its chance to make a mark on the discussion beginning in April.

An overview of how catastrophe models are used in the industry.

No matter where one stands on the issue of global warming, there are practical reasons for producers to embrace the environmental revolution—not least of which is the chance to grow their books.

In the wake of a magnitude 9.0 earthquake that struck Japan on March 11, with insured-loss estimates reaching as high as $35 billion, analysts and rating agencies fell on either side of the debate about whether the event will cause a turn in the long-running soft-market cycle.

Catastrophe models have become so ingrained in the insurance industry that a model revision can have profound effects on all aspects of the business, especially when loss results for some books of business can double.

Power companies and their insurers face an emerging threat, according to William F. Stewart, a coverage attorney. A climate nuisance liability case to be heard by the Supreme Court in April may be the environmental case of the decade, he says in an article that details the implications of Conn....