Agency Management

If current trends continue, cyber insurance coverage just may take its place alongside workers' comp, general liability, fire and auto insurance in the core commercial property and casualty package.

Although the CEOs of four top insurers are seeing some green shoots of economic improvement in areas like new housing starts, higher discretionary spending and gross domestic product growth, they predict a long, slow recovery

Let's say for the sake of argument that Democrats in Congress are able to get health reform legislation to President Barack Obama's desk.

As the economy goes, so goes the insurance market, excess and surplus lines experts agreed at a meeting here.

Veteran surplus lines insurance industry executives say they'll know a market turn when they see one, but so far, all the barometers they check to predict the proximity of a turn are stuck in soft market territory.

Any legal challenge to block New York's compensation disclosure rule for insurance producers will likely fail, but a lawsuit might delay implementation, a former regulator told agents and brokers meeting here.