Agent & Broker

Progressive Insurance announced it is offering mobile quoting and selling capabilities to its more than 35,000 independent agents through the carriers agency-dedicated Web site, ForAgentsOnly.com. The site is now accessible from tablets, so agents can quote and sell personal passenger auto insurance anywhere, anytime.

Although property and casualty insurers will benefit from rising prices in 2012, economic, regulatory and other challenges mean carriers will have to find other ways to generate growth during the year, according to a Deloitte report.

Each year the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud dishonors the years most brazen, vicious or hapless convicted insurance criminals. Here are the top 9 of 2011.

Each year the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud dishonors the years most brazen, vicious or hapless convicted insurance criminals. Here are the top 9 of 2011.

Plans by United Services Automobile Association to raise homeowners-insurance rates in Texas for the third time in the past 12 months, combined with similar rate increases by other insurers, boost the prospects of carriers in the state keeping pace with projected elevated claim costs, according to Moodys Investors Service.

Plans by United Services Automobile Association to raise homeowners-insurance rates in Texas for the third time in the past 12 months, combined with similar rate increases by other insurers, boost the prospects of carriers in the state keeping pace with projected elevated claim costs, according to Moodys Investors Service.

A look at how the Costa Concordia wreck and the resultant liability claims may impact the global marine insurance industry.

A look at how the Costa Concordia wreck and the resultant liability claims may impact the global marine insurance industry.