Private equity firms are paying high prices for well-managed wholesale brokerages and managing general agencies, but that doesn't mean they are a quick or easy way out of the business for retiring
When German reinsurance behemoth Munich Re announced its intention to buy The Midland Company for $1.3 billion in October, it marked the biggest, but not the last deal involving a U.S. specialty
An insurance analyst from Bear Stearns has tripled his prior estimate of potential losses to liability insurers stemming from the credit crisis--raising a $3 billion guess he published in September to
Techies with an affinity for creating Web-based networking communities could soon replace insurance companies, especially those that are secretive about their pricing models for hard-to-place
Three specialty insurance organizations--Philadelphia Insurance, RLI Corp. and Penn America Group--ranked among a dozen property-casualty insurers that National Underwriter magazine identified as
With multibillion-dollar estimates of professional liability losses related to the credit crisis proliferating, insurers heard more bad news, as experts said recent pro-defendant Supreme Court
The next challenge for this business could come from just about anywhere, but property-casualty insurers will respond to it and adapt just as the industry always has, NAPSLO's newest board member
An insurance analyst from Bear Stearns has tripled his prior estimate of potential losses to liability insurers stemming from the credit crisis--raising a $3 billion guess he published in September to
When German reinsurance behemoth Munich Re announced its intention to buy The Midland Company for $1.3 billion in October, it marked the biggest, but not the last deal involving a U.S. specialty
The December report--"What's the State of Your State? E&O Risk Uneven Across The Country," published by Guy Carpenter, a New York-based reinsurance broker--provides a state-by-state overview of the