Pressur by dint of double-digit me...

Pressur by dint of double-digit medical cost inflation, concentration-of risk worries and falling investment income, workers' compensation insurers have become more selective about the policyholders they want to overspread With the voluntary market shutting its doors forward unattractive business, the residual market, the market of last resort, is booming. The residual market lakes in 24 states doubled their premium mass from 2000 to 2001; and then doubled again in 2002

While industry watchers are keeping a wary view on the growth of the residual market, they say it's still nowhere near the high-water mark of the late 1980s/early 1990 when