The excess and surplus market continues to play an important role in addressing specialized and complex risks. David Nelson, Executive Vice President, E&S Wholesale, said disciplined underwriting, smarter data and technology are key to navigating complexity and capturing opportunity in E&S.
As construction casualty capacity becomes more selective, brokers need a clearer view of what drives underwriting decisions. Kelly Adams, senior vice president of Brokerage Construction at Nationwide, explores the market reset and the risk characteristics, safety practices, subcontractor controls and pricing discipline that can help attract meaningful capacity.
Excess casualty has moved beyond traditional hard and soft market cycles. Dawn Brost, SVP of Excess Casualty, shares how clients, brokers and risk managers can navigate a more complex landscape defined by severity, specialization and structural change.
AI and autonomous mobility require a modern approach from brokers and carriers. In this article, Ashley Moffatt, SVP of Primary Casualty, shares her perspective on how evolving technology is reshaping product liability risk, and what it means for the insurance industry.
AI is reshaping distribution and underwriting by boosting efficiency, enhancing risk assessment, and evolving broker roles. Our E&S Brokerage Excess Casualty leader, Dawn Brost, highlights emerging innovations that improve decision making and help insurers adapt to changing market conditions.
David Nelson, Executive Vice President for E&S Wholesale at Nationwide, said the company’s strategic priorities are enhancing the customer experience, delivering with operational excellence, and managing the business for sustained financial strength and stability.
The E&S property market is in a period of transition. While rates are easing and capacity is returning, volatility remains. Tonya Courtney, senior vice president of E&S Brokerage Property at Nationwide, explains why this tension makes the market riskier and why old strategies like broad appetite and aggressive pricing no longer work.
As catastrophic events increase in both frequency and severity, insurance professionals must adapt their strategies to effectively manage emerging risks while maintaining strong client relationships.
David Nelson outlines why expansion in the excess and surplus market demands precision – not opportunism. Once considered a niche market for unusual risks, is now emerging as a critical release valve for an overburdened admitted market grappling with mounting catastrophes.
As catastrophic events increase in both frequency and severity, insurance professionals must adapt their strategies to effectively manage emerging risks while maintaining strong client relationships. Here's how E&S markets are addressing property exposure challenges.
Like our wholesale partners, Nationwide E&S Brokerage exists to serve and protect our customers from complex risks. That’s why we put you and your clients at the center of everything we do. As a mutual, we’re better able to make long-term decisions in the best interest of our customers.
Supply chain disruptions, regulatory concerns, and cyber risk are changing the sector’s liability landscape in 2025. Ashley Moffatt, senior vice president of Nationwide E&S Brokerage Primary Casualty, believes the industry must keep in mind the unique ways that 2025 risks will affect product manufacturers.
When it comes to protecting themselves from risk, some businesses like to take matters into their own hands. Self-insured retention (SIR) insurance lets them do just that by offering them the opportunity to reduce costs and have greater control over their claims in exchange for assuming some of the risk themselves.
We've made it our mission to protect people, businesses and futures with extraordinary care. Through disciplined execution, we're transforming our company to stand even stronger as we aspire to be the most trusted, most caring and most customer-focused protection company.
Social inflation, which is often driven by legal system abuse, has resulted in a rising number of more expensive claims, settlements and verdicts that are driving up costs for consumers and businesses, alike.
This strategic initiative highlights Nationwide’s commitment to delivering tailored solutions for the evolving and complex demands of the commercial property insurance market, enhancing its already strong E&S Brokerage Casualty portfolio.
To navigate the excess market, Kelly Adams, senior vice president Brokerage Construction, believes carriers must know how to specialize.
If it seems like the construction industry has been a mixed bag recently, that’s because it has. According to the AIA Consensus Construction Forecast, some sectors of the industry are poised for steady growth while others are slowing down.
For the past decade, the small and midsize businesses we protect have been watched by anonymous, predatory investors waiting for just the right injury to pounce.
Ashley Moffatt, senior vice president Brokerage Primary Casualty, shares her point of view on casualty trends and challenges, and our approach to the market.
In this Q&A, Dawn Brost, senior vice president, E&S Brokerage Excess Casualty at Nationwide, discusses how working virtually has redefined how we communicate and about the new skills employees—and employers—should hone to better navigate the remote workplace.
When it comes to managing construction defect claims, insureds should be looking for an insurance partner that has a sharp eye on the market and is keeping pace with today’s trends.
Successful insurers will be those that focus on specialization and can help mitigate losses for insureds in an evolving risk environment that includes pervasive threats such as legal system abuse, according to Nationwide’s Russ Johnston.
Although the experts diverge on how long it will take for inflation to reach the desired level, they do agree on one point: above-average inflation is not going anywhere anytime soon.
Customers expect manufacturers, suppliers and other parties in the retail chain to deliver safe and reliable products.
Between periods of civil unrest and recurring COVID-19 pandemic waves, operations in the commercial real estate and hospitality sectors have been anything but "business as usual" in recent years.