Market Insights

The Florida Surplus Lines Service Office (FSLSO) has upgraded its filing platforms and issued enhanced versions of the Surplus Lines Information Portal (SLIP), as well as the agent and insurer

On Jan. 11, 2006, three employees of the city of Daytona Beach were burned in a methanol tank fire. Two of them died; one was critically injured. The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation

With little fanfare and no debate, Florida lawmakers who met during the January special session put on hold a program that had been launched three years ago as one of the steps intended to help fix

Unless a family member is in the business, kids don't typically grow up wanting to sell insurance. Partly to blame is the unexciting circa 1950 stereotype of someone knocking on doors selling life

House Bill 601, passed by the 2008 Florida Legislature, brought a number of notable changes to Chapter 718 of the Florida Statutes -- and not a little controversy. One of the most contentious of the

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