Agency Management

Joseph Peloso, a veteran of the program business segment, remembers a time when unsolicited program proposals flooded the desks of property and casualty underwriters, offering more business than they could possibly handle.

The three biggest insurance brokerages reported mixed results for the first quarter, with Aon seeing a big drop in net income, Marsh & McLennan reporting a substantial gain, and Willis a more modest jump.

A soft market hasn't stopped excess and surplus lines industry veterans from building and launching businesses--and wholesale brokerages have been as active as carriers in the early part of 2010.

One grim reality faces Americans today in a way not felt for generations--there are simply not enough jobs to go around.

Thomas J. Slattery, for many years the editorial leader of National Underwriter, passed away on May 14 of respiratory failure at the age of 68.

Non-U.S. firms vaulted up a premium ranking of E&S writers in the United States in 2009, although industry-wide U.S. E&S premiums shrank for the third straight year, an exclusive NU report found.