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Middle Market

Current Report

Middle Market: When Less Means More
2008-08-01

By Steve Tuckey

Middle market corporate risk managers face a soft market quandary: cover new exposures or bank the savings. Higher limits and better terms are also on the table.

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When More Means Less: What Happens When The Hard Market Returns?
2008-08-01

By Steve Tuckey

In all these soft market calculations, veteran risk managers will always ponder what steps will have to be taken once the market hardens. Will they have to settle for lower limits and stricter coverages and forgo those exposures they only recently looked to cover?

Middle Market: Killing Ground or Fertile Ground?
2008-08-01

By Jack Roberts

Underwriters reveal the "art" of gaining ground in the middle market while not sinking the ship in the soft cycle.

Merger Checks off Middle Market for Willis President
2008-07-15

By Matthew Brodsky

Willis' group president goes on the record about the HRH merger, particularly on his firm's focus on the U.S. middle market.

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Middle Market: Brokers Pile In
2007-08-01

By Jack Roberts

For brokers, there are hundreds of millions of dollars at stake in the middle market, and even more money to be made by poaching from one another.

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Middle on the Move

Middle Market: Marsh In Hot Pursuit
2007-08-01

By Jack Roberts

After a difficult three years in which Marsh relinquished its position as the world's No. 1 insurance broker to rival Aon, the firm is looking to grow through aggressive initiatives in the middle market.

Middle Market: Carriers Finding Fat in the Middle
2007-08-01

By Matthew Brodsky

The middle market is calling again, and insurers are a comin'. Are they stumbling into another bloodbath, or are they in control of the battlefield this time?

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Middle Market: Why Group Captives Make Sense for the Midmarket
2007-08-01

By Linda Nicholls and Joel Chansky

With the right mix of companies, a group captive can be an effective way for purchasing groups to cover themselves when regular insurance is too expensive or simply not available.

Trucking: Cranking Up Your Mental Wheels
2007-04-01

By Dean Croke

How to protect your fleet from risk through business intelligence. Here's the good news: You're not as beholden to insurance carrier data as you think.

Trucking Industry Risk Report Table 2007
2007-04-01

A listing of some of the nation's top publicly traded trucking and shipping companies, their risk managers, brokers, captives and risk management programs.

Trucking: Rigging Rigs For Safety
2007-04-01

By Erin Fogg

Trucking is still reeling from federal regulation changes in 2003 and 2005, a process one risk manager called a "nightmare." The government is poised to overhaul fleet technology next.

Architecture Firms: Learning to Build from Scratch
2006-11-01

By Matthew Brodsky

Architects and designers need a new perspective as their structured world of "apportioned liability" crumbles under their feet because of new technology.

Architecture Firms: Building Risk Management
2006-11-01

By Matthew Brodsky

Law Firms: Raising the Legal Premium
2006-10-15

By Patricia Vowinkel

Law firms hunger for higher professional malpractice liability limits as they come under fire because of conflicts of interest, unscrupulous clients, complex deals and larger scale.

Law Firms: Akin Gump Fishes for General Counsel in the Corporate Pond
2006-10-15

By Patricia Vowinkel

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