Commercial Lines

The agency distribution channel remains the dominant interface between consumers and insurance carriers. Carriers hoping to increase profitable growth should create preferred relationships with agency partners through these 8 steps.

As cyber-security concerns rise, interest in insurance is up and legislators are trying to pass laws. But some groups are making sure privacy issues are adequately addressed before lawmakers go too far.

The hunt for Malaysian Air Flight 370 shifted focus for the third time in as many weeks after new analysis indicated the plane could have gone down hundreds of miles from the previous search area.

London-based Cobalt Underwriting said it was signing the European unit of QBE to its sharia-compliant insurance platform, helping address capacity constraints in the takaful (Islamic insurance) industry.

How could one of the safest airplanes in the sky vanish without a trace, and what does that mean for the rest of the commercial aviation industry, and those who insure it?

Hiscox USA has been selling commercial-insurance products direct to small businesses since 2010, and while the company has bet on a bright future for this distribution method, CEO Ben Walter still believes in the value of agents and brokers as well.