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Loss ratios to blame, expert says, as carriers look to boost revenue from the underwriting side of the ledger.

A listing of some of the nation's top MGAs and key metrics about their operations.

The semi-annual get-together of program administrators continues to grow steadily.

Industry analyst exhorts program administrators to know their carriers, warning that the industry is not out of the "cheating" phase of soft-market underwriting.

A personal profile of Curtis Anderson, incoming president of the American Association of Managing General Agents.

While the bailout of the financial services industry by Congress isn't likely to generate a flood of new D&O claims, provisions within the law may generate more shareholder lawsuits.

K.C. Kidder

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

Risk is the currency of insurance companies, with peril on one side of the coin and profit on the other. You'd think insurance companies would be experts at it. But ratings agencies are having to push insurers into applying enterprise risk management techniques to their entire portfolio, an education they seem to be in serious need of.

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

How mortgage lenders masked their subprime exposure risks from investors through securitization and looser standards.

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

The court has made it easier for small companies to challenge financial services industry Goliaths in the protection of intellectual property. The industry's behemoths however, seeking to defend their interests, have taken pre-emptive action by filing patents of their own.