Survival Tips For Insurance Players
Kenneth A. Brown
Survival Tips For Insurance Players Based on the results of the Robert E. Nolan Company survey, it is clear that industry senior management should immediately ...
Kenneth A. Brown
Survival Tips For Insurance Players Based on the results of the Robert E. Nolan Company survey, it is clear that industry senior management should immediately ...
Steven Brostoff
States Warned About Fed's InterventionWashington House Financial Services Committee Chairman Mike Oxley, R-Ohio, warned at a recent hearing that if insurance regulation is not reformed, ...
Kenneth A. Brown
Insurers Must Adapt FastTo Survive Changing MarketA new in-depth study reveals how senior insurance executives view the property-casualty industry's future and what factors they believe ...
Steven Brostoff
Insurers At Odds Over Fed RegulationWashington The leaders of the four major associations representing primary insurance companies are at odds over whether the current exclusive ...
Jim Connolly
Loose Ends Remain In Privacy BattleAlthough insurers are pleased with the progress that states have made to put privacy standards into place to meet the ...
Ara C. Trembly
New Technology: Not As GoodAs We Hoped, Or As Bad As We FearedAs I gaze from my lofty "technology guru" perch out over the sprawling ...
Susanne Sclafane
Rising Rates No Profit PanaceaIn spite of double-digit increases in property-casualty net written premiums for all but a handful of publicly-traded insurers in the first ...
Mark E. Ruquet
Tech Will Rule In Agent Future Technology will help make or break independent agents in the years ahead, one leading agent official contends.Real time processing ...
Caroline McDonald
Captives Cope With Rising Fronting FeesFronting costs are on the rise, while some fronting carriers have become more restrictive in their oversight of captive insurance ...
staff Writer
There Is No Finish LineIn The Race To The FutureIt was with some trepidation that we at National Underwriter agreed to feature a story about ...
E.E. Mazier
Consumer Groups Blast Insurer 'Bullies'The insurance industry is engaged in an "ideological jihad" against regulation, consumer advocate Birny Birnbaum told state insurance regulators at their ...
Caroline McDonald
Captives Cheer Tax Ruling A reversal of a 1999 ruling that said the United Parcel Service illegally used offshore insurers as tax shelters came ...
Steven Brostoff
Convergence Puts Squeeze On InsurersWashington Consolidation, globalization and partnerships with other financial service providers will continue to have an impact on the property-casualty insurance industry, ...
Steven Brostoff
Fraud Database Bill Clears Hurdle Washington Legislation aimed at enhancing the fight against financial services fraud passed the U.S. House Financial Services Committee by ...
Mark E. Ruquet
Insurers To Agents: Live Long And Prosper It may be surprising to some independent agents who scoff at the way companies treat them at ...
Steven Brostoff
House Bill Would Limit Class-ActionsWashington Bipartisan legislation that would allow large class-action lawsuits to be heard in federal, rather than state courts was introduced last ...
Mark E. Ruquet
Small Agencies Face Struggle;Women, Minorities See OpportunitiesWith 30 years of experience in the business as an independent agent in Rochester, Ind., Ron Smith, president of ...
Mark E. Ruquet
Independent Agents Get New Lease On Life, But Challenges RemainBy Mark E. RuquetTo paraphrase Mark Twain: the death of the independent agent has been greatly ...