The co-founder and deputy chairman of Beazley Group, Andrew Beazley, died yesterday at the age of 57 after a long bout with cancer.

I hate to cherry-pick another guy's blog (OK, that's not exactly true, low-hanging fruit is often delicious), but I was intrigued by Celent's Mike Fitzgerald's blog post on a new service called Social Intelligence, which monitors social networking sites.

Experts in the energy field believe insurance market pricing will remain flat for the next 12 months despite early concerns that the Deepwater Horizon spill would drive prices higher.

Squires brings more than 20 years of experience to NSM Insurance Group.