Most transportation insurance rates in the third quarter were decreasing as marketplace competition has increased, according to a brokerage firm survey.
In the past few years, the business press has been full of articles about private equity investors buying big companies and then making them even bigger. Below the media's radar, however, the nation's small
TRUCKING is a growing niche. That should be obvious to anyone who has driven on an interstate highway lately, and it also is backed up by statistics from the Federal Highway Administration. According to the most recent information posted on its Web
FROM 2001 through 2003, the excess and surplus lines marketplace enjoyed a remarkable run. As standard insurers curbed their underwriting in the hard market, direct written premiums in the E&S segment increased by 35.66% in 2001, by 61.67% in 2002
FROM 2001 through 2003, the excess and surplus lines marketplace enjoyed a remarkable run. As standard insurers curbed their underwriting in the hard market, direct written premiums in the E&S segment increased by 35.66% in 2001, by 61.67% in 2002
HANDBALL is a great sport for keeping one in condition, and it occasionally has a significant effect on one's career--or at least it did on mine. During a handball tournament with a friend some 23 years ago, he learned that I was an
THE MOST recent hard market, from which we're perhaps just beginning to emerge, has been harsher than usual, and the trucking insurance niche has been affected like all others. Many of the factors leading to the hard market are fairly easy to