Businesses concerned about the impending
hard insurance market are taking risks when seeking coverage, and as a result, they are not getting what they want, Lindberg said.
The 1980s
hard insurance market impressed upon boards and executive management the need to control risks encroaching on their organization's bottom line.
For more information on setting up a captive insurance company, see "Implications and Opportunities in the
Hard Insurance Market," beginning on page 49 of the October 2003 issue of ASSOCIATION MANAGEMENT.
IN TODAY's
hard insurance market, few D & O insurers will provide more than $20 million in coverage to one company.
Some of these organizations have lost their insurance coverage in the current,
hard insurance market.
During the last 18 to 24 months, amid a
hard insurance market and regulatory actions in response to corporate scandals, several of the CEOs in the insurance industry changed.
She attributes the rise to the
hard insurance market.
The
hard insurance market and an expanding world of perils prompted risk managers to increase their spending on loss control last year in the face of a slumping economy and tight corporate budgets, according to the results of a survey by Chubb Corp.
This article provides a historical perspective on the
hard insurance market, using lessons from the past to guide local governments through the current crisis.
When asked about long-term care providers' current interest in possible "alternative markets," Colburn responded, "Whenever a
hard insurance market exists, we see many captives, RRGs (risk retention groups), etc.
The situation created by the increasing burden of regulation, the cost of claims, and the
hard insurance market continues to put a strain on every organization's resources.
Early last year, many experts predicted the
hard insurance market was imminent.
