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How Small Agencies Can Win in Commercial Lines Quoting

Key Takeaways Small agencies can quote commercial lines without a dedicated commercial lines team: the right workflow carries the load. Appetite guidance routes each risk to the ca...

My New Markets

Small Business Market Details: The Kinsale Small Business Division concentrates on smaller risks with an emphasis on contractors and OL&T/premises-related exposures, offering b...

HDI Global targets lead market position in fine art and specie

A specialty line that runs low loss ratios and high client retention is attracting new entrants

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National AXIS Capital Holdings Limited appointed Jim Rhyner head of North America financial lines, programs, and Canada. Rhyner reports to Head of North America Mike McKenna. He wi...

Why Coverage Clarity Is the New Competitive Advantage

The personal lines insurance market is becoming increasingly competitive. After several years of volatility, carriers are returning to growth-oriented strategies and investing heav...

Markets/Coverages: Philadelphia Insurance Debuts Platform for Storage Tank Policies

Philadelphia Insurance Companies (PHLY) announced the launch of PHLY TankEAS, a self-service online platform that allows agents and brokers to quote, bind, and issue admitted polic...

Markets/Coverages: Classic Car Insurer OpenRoad Expands to 40 States

OpenRoad Insurance, a provider of specialized insurance for classic and collector vehicles and related coverages, said it is now licensed in 40 U.S. states, up from 35 since March....

U.S. E&S Insurance Market Report: Niche To Necessity For Homeowners

US P/C Industry Books Best Result in a Decade but Not All Lines Enjoy Success

The U.S. property/casualty industry posted its best underwriting profit and combined ratio in a decade in 2025, building upon the $1 trillion of total direct premiums written logge...

From Uncertainty to Underwriting: How Specialty Markets Arise

Insurance has always been about helping people and businesses navigate uncertainty. And the industry has continually adapted to protect new risks as they emerge. Many of today’s es...

Markets/Coverages: Clach Casualty Seeks Habitational Properties in NY Free Trade Zone

Clach Casualty Underwriting Managers, a part of Ryan Specialty Underwriting Managers, has launched an admitted general liability real estate program designed specifically for habit...

Independent agencies push into commercial lines

EZLynx's Michael Rabinowitz on data quality, integration and growth in commercial lines

Insurance moves: Acies MGU, Fiducia, ACORD, Angelica Solutions and ATL

A fresh round of senior appointments carries direct implications for brokers placing financial lines, liability, and marine business, and for anyone tracking where insurance data s...

AXIS Capital names Jim Rhyner to lead financial lines, programs and Canada business

Rhyner leaves The Hartford's global financial lines operation for the equivalent seat at a Bermuda specialty carrier - inheriting a book growing at 11% with a combined ratio under...

Insurance moves: Lockton, Ames & Gough, Upland, Relm, DUAL, Arden, CVS, more

Relm's new distribution head names digital assets, AI and space as lines where brokers need faster access - and DUAL now has dedicated leadership across both tax and R&W on one...

E&S growth exposes widening split in US homeowners market

E&S homeowners premiums rose 29.5% nationally last year and more than tripled in some inland states - for brokers managing personal lines clients, the question is no longer jus...

Prudential launches Protection IUL life insurance policy from Newark-based unit

Newark-based Prudential Financial Inc. introduced Prudential Protection IUL on Aug. 17, a new indexed universal life insurance policy from its Individual Life Insurance business. T...

Insurance moves: Windward Risk, Hannover Re US, Ameritas, Sunstar, Ames & Gough, Amica, more

Eight appointments span Florida homeowners carriers, life reinsurance pricing, cyber underwriting, agency integration and claims leadership. The common thread is carriers and broke...

Motor insurance gets more personalised as data takes the wheel

Insurers tailor own-damage add-ons, named-driver plans and mileage-linked premiums

Presurance narrows to Texas homeowners as commercial lines wind down

The Michigan carrier's Q2 turnaround is real, but 31 points of reserve releases tell the fuller story

Interpreting PPLI Illustrations

Key considerations when reviewing policies with a broker.

Introducing Rent-by-the-Room Insurance—Property & Liability for Coliving Rentals

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Established program manager, REInsurePro, expands insurance offering to increasingly popular rental strategy Kansas City, MO, September 1, 2026 – REInsurePro,...

US P/C Industry Books Best Result in a Decade, but Not All Lines Enjoy Success

The U.S. property/casualty industry posted its best underwriting profit and combined ratio in a decade in 2025, building upon the $1 trillion of total direct premiums written logge...

Two for One: When Physics and Finance Intersect

The line between traditional indemnity insurance and parametric solutions is fading. Although carriers have offered both for decades, operational silos kept them separate: indemnit...