Claims Data Standards SoughtA joint claims standard initiative involving the Risk and Insurance Management Society and ACORD will be announced this week designed to improve ...
Underwriting Cycle Heads South Again Following a three-year gentle recovery from the 1990s soft market for insurance, analysts observed that prices began to decline again ...
Ergonomics Rules Being RevampedWashington Any new regulation on ergonomic injuries will have to address the concerns expressed by Congress, and avoid repeating the mistakes that ...
When The Agent-Insurer Marriage FailsLike a marriage, the relationship between an agent and company may seem like a good match at the start, but as ...
Banks Put P-C Products Into Offerings Many banks have effectively incorporated the distribution of personal lines insurance products of partnering insurance companies into their suites ...
How Much Longer To P-C Nirvana?Like kids on a long car trip headed for summer vacation, many insurance company employees and the agents that represent ...
Mini-catastrophes Cost Insurers $100 Billion Although 2005 was marked by no major catastrophes, there were an unusually large number of both tropical storm and ...
Top 20 Groups Intact, But Positions Shift If you had taken a picture of the National Underwriter ranking of the top 20 property-casualty insurance groups ...
Added Value Key To Agent/Broker SurvivalAt a recent Reagan Consulting Mergers & Acquisitions Conference attended by over 85 insurance agency principals and bank executives, we ...
Back to Story Reproduced from National Underwriter Property & Casualty/Risk & Benefits Management Edition, July 20, 2001. Copyright 2001 by The National Underwriter Company ...