E&S/Specialty

Three subjects appeared to be most prominent in discussions between executives and risk managers in Philadelphia at this years Risk and Insurance Management Society meeting: price, business interruption and cyber risk.

I.I.I. President Robert Hartwig on industry surplus, Brown & Brown Chairman and acting President and CEO J. Hyatt Brown on the state of the market, and more.

PC360 visits the insurance-research labs at a trio of major carriers: Chubb, FM Global and Liberty Mutual. While on site, we witnessed explosions, earthquakes, flammable-liquid fires, treacherous test tracks and the awesome force of hurricane winds.

Chubb Corp. says the first quarter saw renewal rate increases across the board in U.S. commercial and specialty lines while first quarter net income for 2012 fell slightly to $506 million.

The allegations joining Penn State and its officials with the Jerry Sandusky sexual-abuse cases provide a regrettable study of how we turn to insurance to help us through the worst of situationsat least financially.

On April 15, 1912 the RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on its maiden voyage to New York. National Underwriter was there to write about the insurance implications.