Agency Management

As the use of social media and the realization of its possibilities expand, a major independent insurance agent's group released a report to give producers ideas on how to develop policies to manage the new business channel.

What will be the most important stories of the coming year for the property and casualty insurance industry? NU Editor Sam Friedman peers into his crystal ball at www.NUSamSoapBox.com.

We made it! This exceedingly volatile, outrageously expensive and mercilessly cruel first decade of the new millennium careened to a chaotic close and somehow the property and casualty insurance industry crossed the finish line more or less intact.

Shaping health care and financial services regulatory reform legislation to the interests of their members will keep property and casualty insurance lobbyists busy throughout 2010.

The revelations surrounding Tiger Woods' infidelities have helped one broker promote a new coverage aimed at organizations that built their branding campaigns around a celebrity whose reputation becomes tainted.

While battles over health care reform got most of the headlines here this month, Congress tackled a host of other issues of keen interest to property and casualty insurers and producers.