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Multiline Productivity Poll: Agents play key role in understanding risk

Jan 23 2006 // Insurance buyers see increasing value from reducing their total cost of risk across multiple lines of commercial insurance, according to a new survey commissioned by property and casualty insurer Wausau Insurance, Wausau,...

Productivity Poll

Jan 22 2006 // Insurance buyers see increasing value from reducing their total cost of risk across multiple lines of commercial insurance, according to a new survey commissioned by Wausau Insurance.Eighty-one percent (up from 70 percent...

Spotlight: Counseling Buyers

Jan 22 2006 // Multiline Productivity Poll: Agents play key role in understanding riskInsurance buyers see increasing value from reducing their total cost of risk across multiple lines of commercial insurance, according to a new survey...

Safeco Automates Sales for Mid-Market Commercial Accounts

Nov 18 2005 // Seattle-based Safeco has announced it has fully automated the sale of commercial insurance packages to more than 800 classes of small- and mid-sized businesses. In 16 states and the District of Columbia, independent agents...

Safeco Automating Sales Process for Mid-Market Commercial

Nov 8 2005 // Safeco announced it is one of the first insurance companies to fully automate the sale of commercial insurance packages to more than 800 classes of small- and mid-sized businesses.In 16 states and the District of Columbia,...

Barometer Shows Premiums on the Decline for Contractors Market

Aug 22 2005 // MarketScout began tracking property and casualty pricing trends in 2001 in an effort to share the pricing results of insurance placements related to their 50,000 member agent network. The monthly market trends are...

Aim for the Bull’s Eye: Focus on Market Characteristics Improves Programs

Jul 7 2005 // The following article was published in Insurance Journal’s July 4 issue focusing on Target Markets Program Administrators Association and the program marketplace.The value of specialization and target marketing in...

Aim for the Bull’s Eye: Focus on Market Characteristics Improves Programs

Jul 4 2005 // Drilling Down into a Market’s Data Unearths Insights Conventional Methods MissThe value of specialization and target marketing in improved insurance performance has been well proven over the past 15-plus years....

Arrowhead Launches Employment Practices Liability Program for Small, Mid-Market Businesses

Jun 27 2005 // Arrowhead General Insurance Agency Inc. announced that its Professional Liability Division (www.ArrowheadPro.com) has launched an Employment Practices Liability Insurance program for small and mid-market businesses in 47...

IRISK Solutions Promises Risk Management for Middle Market Firms

Jun 8 2005 // IRISK Solutions (IRISKSolutions.com), a new independent risk management consulting firm, launched on June 1, 2005. IRISK targets small to middle market companies with annual gross premiums from $50,000 to $1 million.IRISK...

Avoiding A Victim Mentality: How to Protect Yourself from Spam and Viruses

Jun 6 2005 // Small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) are bigger targets for spam and viruses than they think–and the insurance industry is more at risk than most. For an act to be deemed malicious or damaging, there has to be a...

Avoiding A Victim Mentality: How to Protect Your Agency from Spam and Viruses

Jun 6 2005 // Small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) are bigger targets for spam and viruses than they think-and the insurance industry is more at risk than most. For an act to be deemed malicious or damaging, there has to be a...

Avoiding A Victim Mentality: How to Protect Your Agency from Spam and Viruses

Jun 6 2005 // Small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) are bigger targets for spam and viruses than they think-and the insurance industry is more at risk than most. For an act to be deemed malicious or damaging, there has to be a...

Survey: Consumerism Gaining Foothold in Group Benefits for Mich. Mid-Market

May 24 2005 // Troy, Mich.-based benefits broker McGraw Wentworth released the results of its 2005 Southeast Michigan mid-market group benefits survey. The survey compares benefit plans and trends among 465 mid-sized organizations in...

The Hartford Offers Agency eSubmission for Mid-Market Business

May 24 2005 // The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. is speeding up the process of placing midsize commercial accounts.Independent insurance agents now can submit new business applications directly to The Hartford for general...

Nearly Half of Large, Mid-sized Businesses Purchased Terrorism Insurance in 2004

May 23 2005 // Nearly half of large and mid-sized U.S. businesses obtained insurance to cover property terrorism risks during 2004, a dramatic increase from the 2003 average of 27 percent. Meanwhile, the cost of property terrorism...

Middle-Market Umbrella

May 9 2005 // Nuts & Bolts: Wausau Insurance is more than doubling its in-house individual account coverage limits up to $25 million. This new middle-market feature leverages an umbrella program offered by the large account...

Wausau Expands Middle-Market Umbrella Capacity

Mar 29 2005 // Wausau Insurance announced it is more than doubling its in-house individual account coverage limits up to $25 million for its middle-market umbrella insurance program. This new middle-market feature is aimed at leveraging...

Industry Under Fire: Will Insurance Broker M&As Still Keep Pace’

Nov 22 2004 // Will pending investigations of insurance brokers halt the robust pace of the industry’s mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity? In mid-October 2004, New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer filed a civil...

Zurich Names Lindemann Middle Markets President

Sep 14 2004 // Schaumburg, Ill.-based Zurich has named Robert Lindemann president of the middle markets business unit of its North American commercial business division. Lindemann brings 29 years of commercial insurance experience with...