On the final day of the conference, agents met to hear a panel discussion with three insurance-industry CEOs and the president of the Insurance Information Institute on the state of the industry.

The group consensus was that the prolonged soft market is at an end and is being replaced by a gradual turn that agents and brokers will see over this year and into next.

“The era of mass-exposure destruction has ended,” said Bob Hartwig, president of the I.I.I.

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