E&S/Specialty

We haven't reached the height of hurricane season and the travel insurance industry has already experienced more claims from natural disasters and major events than normal.

Cloud computing has become a vitally important part of the information technology landscape.

Premiums for commercial transportation insurance business continued falling for almost all types of accounts in the second quarter of 2010, but the number of insurers writing transportation business rose.

Recommendations to the states for the collection of surplus lines taxes from insurance regulators should be in place by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners' (NAIC) November meeting, said the chairman of the NAIC Surplus Lines Task Force.

Despite research reports showing escalating numbers of securities lawsuits filed by government enforcers--such as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission--a buyer's market continues for directors and officers liability insurance.

The use of social media by surplus lines insurers and agents to promote business is advertising, a legal expert explains in a National Underwriter special feature this week.