The Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire occurred 100 years ago today, and is credited with launching workers’ compensation insurance in New York as well as spurring worker safety laws. Inside are photos documenting the scene during and after the disaster.
Large insurance brokers do not rate as highly as their smaller, middle-market counterparts when it comes to customer satisfaction, according to a survey of large corporate insurance buyers.
The Obama administration’s 2012 budget proposal has reopened the debate over taxing certain reinsurance premiums ceded to foreign insurers by their U.S. affiliates.
An executive with Reagan Consulting believes the current rate of merger and acquisition activity over the past five weeks will not be sustained throughout 2011.
The following is a list of advertisers appearing in AA&B during 2010. Numbers in parentheses after the name of an advertiser means its product is only available in certain parts of the country.
Major insurance brokers are stepping up their game, delivering better service to their customers in a bad economy and surpassing the satisfaction rating of others who in the past would have been considered service leaders.
Participants in the excess and surplus lines industry generally expect a replay of 2010 market conditions in 2011, but that does not mean they believe the soft market is a "new normal" for the property and casualty industry.