INDUSTRY MAG FOLDS

Insurance West, a Seattle-based magazine owned by The National Underwriter Company, will cease publication, according to Publisher Dick Moessner. The final issue of the bi-monthly magazine will be Dec. 15. “The magazine has been losing money,” Moessner said. “We had a healthy forecast going into next year, but I guess it was just a business decision.” Insurance West, formerly known as InsuranceWeek, was founded in 1933 by IW Publications Inc. National Underwriter purchased the magazine in 1999, and changed the name as it no longer came out weekly.