There's been a lot of talk on the acquisition front by excess and surplus lines insurance companies, but little action to date--even in a year that followed back-to-back declines in organic growth for the segment overall.

Commercial insurers wondering what they need to do to attract and hang on to their customers got an earful from the 411 buyers responding to open-ended questions about what they want from their carriers.

Analytics ensure that adjusters are devoting their time to claims where they have an opportunity to impact the settlement. This means that the leadership team can redirect their attention to monitoring trends and impacting results.

A U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board proposal, intended to improve existing financial statements' fair value accounting measurements, will actually make them difficult to compare and interpret, an insurance industry group said.