Personal Lines

Those who succeed in starting their own insurance agency come from many backgrounds, but share several common traits.

The attack on VTech highlights how increasingly online-savvy children are vulnerable to hackers.

Less than 1% of any piece of arts life is spent in transit, but transit-related losses account for 18% of all art insurance claims.

It's a peculiar fact that liability insurance is an industry built on standardization of policy forms. And at no time are those forms more important than in the context of a claim.

The last issue of the year provides a great opportunity to look back at some of the highlights (and lowlights) of the year. Among the major lowlights were the hacks at the Office of Personnel Management and Anthem Insurance; the flooding that decimated much of North and South Carolina; and...

As natural catastrophes proved once again to be few and the Property & Casualty industry continued to be viewed as an attractive investment for alternative-capital sources looking to place their bets, carriers looking to get rate in a market made increasingly competitiveand softhad different ideas about how to achieve growth.