At insurance industry meetings across the country, one issue keeps working its way to the top of the agenda as perhaps our biggest collective challenge: How are we going to interest more young people in insurance and attract them into the profession?

National Underwriter is seeking entries for its fifth annual “Award For Excellence In Workers’ Compensation Risk Management,” sponsored by the National Council on Compensation Insurance.

With plenty of capital still in the pipelines, no industrywide price increase is expected from Japan’s Tohoku earthquake—and any talk about a hard market is being greeted with skepticism, at least by one financial analyst.

Circumstances surrounding David Sokol’s recent resignation from Berkshire Hathaway are credit negative for the company, Moody’s Investors Service says, due to an appearance of conflict of interest and, more broadly, management-succession risk at the company.