All the headlines from our Middle Market Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...