Captivating strategies. (Benefits).
With property/casualty insurance rates rising and many lines of professional liability coverage unavailable, many corporations and organizations have been turning to captive insurance companies at a record rate. While most captive strategies involve workers' compensation, general liability and group auto liability, captive and employee benefit consultants say...

IMDHA benefit programs.
* Internet Listing--Get your business listed on the World Wide Web through the Infinity Institute Internet Service. You do not have to be an Internet user to be listed as a Certified IMDHA member on this site. People who are looking for a Hypnotherapist will click onto the site...

Colony's Latham: Cycles and Surplus Lines.
As markets harden, excess and surplus lines get a fresh look, and Colony Group CEO John Latham--who also heads the trade association NAPSLO--knows the ups and downs of the business as few others do. January renewals tell the tale. For the first time in years, property and...

Just what is this category called 'other'?
A third of states' budgets are spent on "other." Here's what it includes - and excludes. State governments pay for a great number of services from general fund revenues. While big ticket items such as education, corrections and Medicaid receive 65 percent of state general fund spending, states still...

E&O Coverage.
Quadrant Insurance Managers is offering a new minimum premium for its Professional Surplus Lines Insurance Program (ProSLIP) E&O coverage. Offered to E&S brokers, privately-held wholesalers, and MGAs, the minimum premium has been reduced from $15,000 to $8,500 to accommodate the shift in the market. Specific programs included...

Black business in the black metropolis: the Chicago Metropolitan Assurance Company, 1925-1985.
Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996, pp. Xvii, 158. Illustrations, US$35.00. The first black commercial insurance companies emerged in the late nineteenth century in part because white firms, convinced by pervasive racist sentiment, that blacks were unfit for insurance, either refused coverage or charged exorbitant rates....

EXECUTIVE MOVES.
Thomas Krzys has been elected president of the Society of Risk Management Consultants (SRMC), a New York-based organization of risk management consultants not affiliated with any insurance company, agent or broker. Additionally, Krzys is vice president, director and principal consultant of Insurance Buyers' Council Inc. Susan B....

Errors & omissions.
CalSurance, a national insurance sales, service and support company, has enhanced its specialized errors and omissions program for broker-dealers with less than 75 brokers, the company said. The improvements now provide each broker-dealer with its own policy limits without sharing a master policy aggregate with other broker-dealers in the...

Errors & omissions.
CalSurance, a national insurance sales, service and support company, has enhanced its specialized errors and omissions program for broker-dealers with less than 75 brokers, the company said. The improvements now provide each broker-dealer with its own policy limits without sharing a master policy aggregate with other broker-dealers in the...

Startups awash in new capital: a dozen new insurers pour into Bermuda as the Class of 2005, creating more than $8 billion in new capital to help pay for disasters that are costing in the tens of billions.
AMLIN BERMUDA LTD. London insurer Amlin pie formed Amlin Bermuda Ltd. on October 24, with capacity of $1 billion, following a rights issue at a narrow discount to the market. Thus, it avoided the need for shareholder approval, which might have delayed the process by as much...