Commercial Lines

Bill Pritchard, president of Beacon Hill Associates Inc., a wholesale insurance broker and program administrator specializing in the placement of environmental insurance and other specialty products, provides his perspective on a number of crucial areas in the environmental-insurance market.

EnvISIon, a new rating system to assess the sustainability of infrastructure projects, is one initiative helping government and corporate risk managers benchmark sustainability performance and provide a framework for measuring risk—as environmental risk challenges threaten to surpass insurance capacity.

In a five-part educational series, Meadowbrook's Phillip Gajewski gives independent agents a step-by-step guide to elevate a distinct class of insureds into a formal carrier-underwritten program. Part 1 explains how to develop the submission.

When your clients' top executives demand to know, "What the frack is going on," do you have an answer? Do you even know what they're talking about? Gina Jones and Ivy Riggs provide the info you need to arm yourself to address your clients' concerns.

Zurich, Switzerland-based insurer ACE Ltd. says second quarter net income decreased 10 percent primarily on catastrophe losses.

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. pointed to positive signs of growth, saying organic growth was up more than 2 percent and earnings increased in both its brokerage and risk management segments.