Willis Report: Big Problems Continue, Prices Won't Stop Rising

Willis Group Holdings (NYSE: WSH), a global insurance broker, has issued the 2004 edition of Marketplace Realities and Risk Management Solutions, its annual compilation of articles on all lines of insurance, concluding that the national workers' compensation market will continue with hard pricing for the foreseeable future, and despite high prices will have marginal performance as earlier financial issues force 60% of the market into only 15 carriers. The report "Strategies for a Changing Marketplace", provides detailed descriptions of individual market segments, including workers' compensati...