Market Insights

Like other niche markets, the public entity marketplace is not immune to the challenges facing the insurance industry today. Although our industry is hopeful that conditions gradually improve, the hard fact remains that it's still a soft market.

Discussing general insurance matters with your clients is difficult enough. However, when the topic is the complicated, emotionally charged issue of long-term care insurance (LTCI), you are now involved in one very difficult presentation.

For those of us in the cyber insurance industry, the close of 2009 and beginning of 2010 has been an exciting--and disquieting--time.

Florida's top insurance regulator told his bosses at the March 23 cabinet meeting that the state's property insurance market remains fragile despite no hurricanes hitting the state of Florida for the last four years.

What a difference a year makes. A year ago the industry was celebrating the record year of 2008, which concluded with 307 total transactions.

A specialist in the life and health markets offers her opinion on the federal health-care reform package.