June 18, 2010 Walmart may be the most frequent defendant named in wage-and-hour lawsuits, but insurers and pharmaceutical companies are also caught up in a maze of rules they didn’t know applied to certain subsets of their workforce, experts say....
June 18, 2010 Recap of the types of coverage for wage-and-hour exposures that are currently available:...
April 30, 2010 Even in a soft market, price is not the only differentiator among insurance companies. In a wide-ranging interview, Paul Romano touches upon the many elements of quality his company seeks to offer......
April 30, 2010 The explosion of social media networks has created enormous opportunity as well as emerging risk for the business professionals who create, manage and use them. ...
April 30, 2010 Law firms are well aware when increasing litigation impacts their clients, but they may not recognize the increased risk their own business faces....
April 30, 2010 In his role as Vice President for OneBeacon Professional Insurance, David Molitano manages four distinct lines of business: technology, media, network security, and miscellaneous professional liability. ...
April 30, 2010 Insurance companies know definitively that unethical business practices are ultimately unprofitable....
March 05, 2010 The market will harden—eventually—but a cycle turn is not in the cards for 2010, according to the consensus view of NAPSLO members attending the Mid-Year Leadership Forum who shared their views with NAPSLO Daily....
March 05, 2010 Veteran surplus lines insurance industry executives say they’ll know a market turn when they see one, but so far, all the barometers they check to predict the proximity of a turn are stuck in soft market territory. ...
March 05, 2010 “Recession 101: It’s A Test. Not The Final.” That is the message posted on billboards across the nation by a person who has been identified only as an “unknown optimist” in media reports.
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March 05, 2010 Last summer, NAPSLO and the Minneapolis-based Professional Liability Underwriting Society announced they were setting up an education partnership between the two associations, but exactly what does that mean for NAPSLO members?...
March 05, 2010 “Where do you add value? How does your firm define its value proposition?”
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March 05, 2010 Surplus lines insurer executives are tackling the challenges of 2010 with a broad range of strategies, but whatever individual approaches they may adopt, all say their main focus is on strengthening wholesaler relationships....
March 05, 2010 NAPSLO members have to step up within their own firms and talk to people about contributing to the association’s political action committee (PAC), a member of the board of directors said yesterday morning....
March 05, 2010 The Mid-Year Conference of the National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices, Ltd. was held March 4-5, 2010 in Scottsdale. Click here for highlights from the NAPSLO Forum....
March 04, 2010 Surplus lines brokers know that a fourth year of flat or declining revenues lies before them—unless the market hardens, the economy recovers, or they change their operations in ways that let them capture business despite external trends....
March 04, 2010 One of tomorrow’s featured speakers at the NAPSLO Mid-Year Leadership Forum will be familiar to many members attending the 8:45 a.m. session, but according to Tony Markel, the company he led for decades looks entirely different in 2010....
March 04, 2010 If you’re the kind of leader that reacts immediately to put out the fire of every crisis, then you may not be doing your company any favors, according to the consultant who is moderating tomorrow’s panel discussion....
March 04, 2010 Attendees to the mid-year conference of the National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices, Ltd. in Scottsdale this week will see a change in the meeting’s format....
March 04, 2010 The latest publicly available statistics for the excess and surplus lines industry indicate that overall E&S premiums probably fell for the third straight year in 2009—and few experts see much change for 2010....
March 04, 2010 Rules for disclosure of compensation arrangements involving surplus lines brokers are ill-defined, according to an industry trade group representative....
March 04, 2010 Continuing education and management training specifically designed for the surplus lines professional is hitting the spot for NAPSLO members, according to the co-chairman of its education committee....
January 26, 2010 Bank-owned insurance agencies’ average total return on prior year value fell an annual 10.2 percent for the period ending June 30, 2009, according to Bank-Insurance Viability Index....
December 02, 2009 Do carriers care what producers think? What matters to agents and brokers in deciding which carriers to do business with? Check out the results of our survey with Deloitte and see....
August 20, 2009 Few insurance companies dispute the need to transform outdated billing functions. For most, both the challenges and opportunities are clear....
August 20, 2009 What does it take to keep people from being hurt on the job and get them back to work as fast as possible when injuries inevitably occur—all while treating them with respect and concern, and without busting your loss control budget?...
May 29, 2009 Insurance carriers certainly feel the pressure on top-line growth in the current underwriting cycle. How do you more accurately evaluate, and then maximize production of, distribution channels – without incurring substantial additional costs?...
May 27, 2009 Does your agency run a successful sales organization while serving as risk management consultants for your clients? Enter the Commercial Insurance Agency of the Year Award Program....
May 18, 2009 National Underwriter on May 18 named the three winners in the 2009 “NU Agency Technology Achievement Award” program....
February 26, 2009 NU Editor In Chief Sam Friedman details his choices for the 10 most interesting property-casualty insurance stories of the year. Can you guess what was number one?...
February 23, 2009 Top 100 Carriers of 2008...
November 10, 2008 Agencies of the Year’ focused on cost of risk, not price of coverage...
August 18, 2008 To see how the best in the business handle risk management challenges, check out the profiles of this year’s winners in the 2nd annual National Underwriter Award For Excellence In WC Risk Management. ...
May 12, 2008 Winners of NU's inaugural agency technology achievement award profiled...
April 28, 2008 “Risk managers cannot afford to become complacent. This is no time for them to rest on their laurels.”--Bill Perry, president Logic Associates...
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