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Validating Mental Health Claims in Today’s Workforce
In recent years, there has been a surge in mental health awareness across the workers compensation landscape. These claims have become a higher priority for insurers with an estimated one-in-five ...
Three Insurers Join Ward’s Annual Top 50 P/C Ranking for 2025
Property/casualty insurers have started to broadcast the fact that they have earned spots on Ward's list of 50 top-performing insurance companies for 2025, but only one was named for 35 straight ...
Florida Reinsurance Buyers Found Ample Property Capacity at Mid-Year Renewals
Reinsurers have gained confidence and returned to the Florida market as a result of recent legislative reforms that have transformed the state's risk landscape, according to brokers Aon and Gallagher ...
MGAs by the Numbers: Fronting Biz, Non-Affiliated MGAs Drive Growth
Direct premiums written by U.S. managing general agents jumped to over $114 billion in 2024, according to the latest installment of an annual research series on the MGA market. The report titled ...
White Mountains Acquiring Majority Stake in MGA Distinguished Programs
Bermuda-based financial services holding company White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd. announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Distinguished Programs. ...
Editor’s Question: Who Created the First U.S. MGA?
Readers of a book about the history of the insurance industry—or more specifically, about Crum & Forster's place in the last 200-plus years—will find out that C&F executives were ...
How a Decentralized Structure Opens Career Paths at C&F
Thankfully, members of the next generation of leaders in the property/casualty insurance industry have had no direct experience with insurance company failures, rehabs and restructurings that ...
Cigar Butts and Toxic Sludge: The Rebirth of a P/C Insurer
It's hard to imagine an executive describing his company and its peers in the industry as "cigar butt companies where the butt had been dropped in toxic nuclear sludge, [and] rolled in asbestos…" ...