A traditional soft market is in the cards as alternative capital-driven pricing pressure in the reinsurance market flows to the primary market, a recent Nomura report contends.

Insurance agents and brokers are in the business of transacting insurance with insurers on behalf of their clients. Unless they take on a fiduciary responsibility, they're only expected to obtain the insurance requested by the prospect. But after a loss, insureds who incur a loss greater than the limits purchased...

Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign to unseat then-current president George H. W. Bush used the rallying cry of, It's the economy, stupid. Although meant as a focus for the campaign staff, the public became aware of the phrase and has paraphrased it hundreds of times for all sorts of causes.

No longer bound to a 24/7 workweek, my wife and I managed to avoid the horrible winter of 2014 by being in sunny Florida. But it was not a time for beach and sun we kept busy with classes, reading, studying, concerts (both in the audience and as participants)...