Market Insights

Significant issues have arisen in Florida's surplus lines industry that have their genesis in two recent decisions by the Florida Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.

While sometimes similar, all carriers are not created equal in the ways in which they process claims, and neither are their claims systems. All good claims solutions offer a broad spectrum of function

Rates for D&O, property and general liability insurance premiums all decreased at a slower pace than in recent quarters, although insurance premiums for businesses continued a 5-year trend of falling rates during the fourth quarter of 2008, according

Stanford Law School's Securities Class Action Clearinghouse has counted 200 securities class-action lawsuits in 2008, up from 173 in 2007 and 115 in 2006, a rising trend that is blamed on the economy and weighed on insurers. During the first

The direct insured losses resulting from financier Bernard Madoff's alleged Ponzi scheme are predicted to be between $760 million and $3.8 billion, with the best estimate of $1.8 billion. The maximum potential exposed insurance limits are

Labor and employment lawyers warn of a wave of wrongful-termination suits in the coming months as the jobless burn through their savings, run up debt and find few work prospects. Labor lawyers advising firms in defensible downsizing say that