Market Insights

Whether considering the acquisition of a Florida insurance agency or the merger of two Florida insurance agencies, fundamental principles of risk management must be incorporated.

Befitting its financial impact on a company's bottom line, large corporations have long had options as to how they secure their required workers' compensation coverage.

There's an old joke that applies to our business: "If you fall off a 40-story building, 35 stories down everything's fine!"

Last year was one of the costliest years for insurers in history, with record-setting Atlantic hurricane losses amounting to $43 billion, as well as man-made catastrophic disasters culminating at $7 billion -- nearly double the annual averages from 2007.

Most research efforts that test the effects of moisture exposure on wood building products evaluate the effects of water vapor -- in other words, the relative humidity (RH) -- rather than exposure to free water.

Thieves broke into a truck parked in a hotel lot and made off with a large shipping crate.