David DeMott has been named president and partner at Gridiron Insurance Underwriters, Inc.

Explorer Insurance Co. is putting the brakes on the company's auto insurance business in the Sunshine State.

The AcelaRate division of All Risks, Ltd., has expanded its online quoting platform to include workers' compensation for Florida.

You may have noticed some changes in our magazine and web site over the past several months.

The ongoing recession has hit workers' comp carriers hard, causing nearly a quarter of the market's premiums to evaporate and cutting profitability by as much as half in the past two years, experts in the field reported here.

Unisource Program Administrators has been acquired by U.S. Risk.

"Profitability in workers' compensation is heading downhill rather rapidly," according to Robert P. Hartwig, Ph.D., CPCU, president and economist of the Insurance Information Institute.

The ongoing recession has hit workers' compensation carriers hard, causing nearly a quarter of the market's premiums to evaporate and cutting profitability by as much as half in the past two years, experts in the field reported here.