Workers' Comp

The lackluster economy, loss of contingent commissions and business issues at certain offices conspired to reduce insurance broker Brown & Brown Inc.’s net income by 10 percent for the 2011 second quarter of this year.

The Fort Lauderdale workers' compensation provider names a new president.

Procedures to unwind troubled insurance companies can be complicated by unforeseen tax issues, blindsiding stakeholders—regulators, creditors, owners of troubled companies, and even healthy ones included in consolidated returns—at a time when none of these parties is focusing on the Internal Revenue Service.

With the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act the insurance industry is being moved, sometimes reluctantly, into making provider and payer interactions more efficient.

Consider for a moment where we would be without workers’ compensation.

Patriot National Insurance Group of Fort Lauderdale has received $30 million in equity funding.