With a Republican Senate win tipping the Congressional balance away from the Democrats (see "Legislative Roundup"), healthcare reform has officially been relegated to the back burner.

With high-profile cases such as ChoicePoint and TJX acting as a lure, plaintiffs' attorneys are increasingly interested in generating class-action lawsuits for data security breaches.

AA&B spoke with three wholesalers/program administrators specializing in boat, yacht and marina insurance about what they're seeing in the current market and how retail agents and brokers can "shore up" this specialty business until the seas are calm.

To paraphrase the late, great Rodney Dangerfield, independent insurance agents don't get no respect.It's bad enough that a recent career survey ranked your profession below ...

Although independent agents and their carriers command 80 percent of the commercial lines market, they only write 34 percent of personal lines. The newly launched Personal Lines Growth Alliance (PLGA) wants to change all that.

In George Orwell's allegorical novel Animal Farm, the collective's credo was"All animals are equal" -- untilthe leaders change thecredoto"All animals are equal, but some animals ...

In George Orwell's allegorical novel Animal Farm, the collective's credo was"All animals are equal" -- untilthe leaders change thecredoto"All animals are equal, but some animals ...

The new Chicago-based Burns & Wilcox Brokerage can service "everything from the large alphabet houses to small shops and all types in between," according to VP Daniel Rossen.