Market Insights

This year has been another extraordinary one for the Florida Workers' Compensation Institute. The preliminary registration numbers for this year's annual conference substantially exceeded past years'

The workers' compensation system continues to provide a significant challenge to its various stakeholders, including employers and insurance carriers. Despite the positive news of declines in claim

In 2005, the workers' compensation line of insurance enjoyed success in each measure of financial performance. Even the workers' compensation calendar year combined ratio, which has stubbornly

With workers' compensation medical costs continuing to consume a huge portion of the benefit dollar -- a recent high of 57 percent -- buyers are more motivated than ever to put the right cost controls

In recent years, most discussions on technologies used to fight claims fraud in the property/casualty industry have tended to focus on the detection end: using data mining, predictive modeling, patter

The world of insurance constantly changes, and it will continue its dynamic course of developing and responding to risk. The conventional wisdom and practices that affect behaviors and cultures in agencies, brokerage firms, and insurance and

PROFESSIONAL education and competence are essential to the career of anyone in the insurance industry, but perhaps even more so to general agents, wholesalers and surplus-lines brokers. To provide the specialized training needed to navigate the E&S

AS HURRICANE season gets into full swing, all segments of the insurance business are speculating about what may lie ahead and how the industry will respond. At the American Association of Managing General Agents' annual convention, which was held in