Commercial Lines

Special relationships or circumstances may broaden an agent or brokers’ duty to advise. In this second article in a two-part package about agent/broker professional liability, Attorney Peter Biging examines recent relevant court rulings examining such circumstances.

With chatter about the next market turn heating up, experienced niche-market participants don’t anticipate a replay of the gut-wrenching turmoil that left some program administrators out in the cold during the last turn. But that doesn’t mean program books won’t need to be mended or that some carrier retrenchment from...

Mark your calendars! NU provides highlights of some upcoming specialty market insurance events, including the Target Market Program Administrators Midyear Meeting in Boston and NAPSLO’s upcoming webinar on NRRA implications.

What is NU's Next Question of Ethics? Dr. Peter R. Kensicki invites readers to weigh in.

In spite of competitive conditions in the specialty program business segment, an insurance industry analyst doesn’t see any flashing red alerts signaling major troubles ahead for program carriers so far in 2011.

Aon Benfield launched what it says is the first storm-surge model for Germany to help reinsurers and insurers quantify risk in an “underdeveloped line of coverage.”