NAPSLO Daily caught up with more than a dozen members, asking them to predict the top stories likely to play out in 2009.
Glancing in a rearview mirror to look back on the events of 2008, and gazing into their crystal balls to forecast what's ahead, the consensus was that the top story that will impact the E&S/specialty segment might easily be summed up by a phrase popular during a past political campaign--"It's the economy, stupid."
Robert Owens, president of RPS of Lexington, a unit of Risk Placement Services in Kentucky, was the first member to tell NAPSLO Daily that the economy is "the number one issue affecting our industry for 2009."
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