Growing Colony Group's business in 2006 is a matter of focusing on client relationships with wholesale agencies, according to Dale Pilkington, the president of Argonaut's largest excess and surplus

Carrier sheds West Coast workers' comp focus, expands into specialty

His father--Mark Watson Jr.--later started an MGA and subsequently bought an insurance company, where Mark III worked during the summer and learned about reinsurance. The exposure helped him land his

Carrier underwrites documentary to call attention to firefighters' lives,

Rates in general to keep dropping 5-10 percent, but bottom shouldn't drop

o April 2005: Acquired renewal rights of the binding authority business of Interstate Insurance Company, a subsidiary of Fireman's Fund, which later became Colony's Denver operation specializing in

Insurance companies' handling of Hurricane Katrina claims will be investigated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security thanks to Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., who has a personal beef with his own

Larger regional brokerages face fewer legal and regulatory challenges than their global competitors, and have added business after investigations hit top-echelon brokers, one investment bank analyst