Agency Management

Sometimes there is a perfect-storm scenario for a new paradigm to emerge. It’s happening now in the insurance industry—the creation of a new work force of vintage employees.

Magazine editors are notorious for filling January opinion pages with predictions, and NU's editors are up to the task as well.

In all my years of underwriting contingency and event cancellation business I have never experienced such a diverse range of potential loss circumstances as we faced during 2010.

When Louis Levinson of Argo Group described a recent restructuring of the company's U.S. E&S units to NU late last year, he began with a simple comparison of two organizational charts.

While market conditions, the weak economy and catastrophic events were among the most frequent topics NU reporters wrote about last year, the article that clearly stood out for our readers in 2010 dealt with insurance agency service issues.

The Department of Health and Human Services is being criticized for allegedly interfering with National Association of Insurance Commissioners' deliberations on