An understanding of the criteria that helped put Deerfield, Fla.-based Courtesy Insurance Company alongside insurers that write most of their premiums in more standard property-casualty lines is

A dozen property-casualty insurers are in the highest echelons of the industry when it comes to underwriting profitability, with the consistency of their combined ratios over a 12-year period making

Web-based underwriting communities might unite to jointly underwrite

Insurance buyer groups have successfully struck down past efforts by U.S. commercial insurers to get Congress to remove tax advantages enjoyed by Bermuda competitors, and they'll probably do so

Excess capital being returned to shareholders via stock buybacks, players

"Bermuda's future is boundless," he said. "Our economic future is strong; it's the envy of much of the world." However, during the same message, he also addressed growing political tensions and

A recent decline in stockholder class-action suits is more likely due to a 1995 litigation reform measure than financial and accounting requirements of the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the drafter of the

With a second straight year of benign loss activity contributing to a second year of record earnings, Bermuda insurers and reinsurers ranging from established old-timers to relative toddlers face an