About Cabling Installation & Maintenance

Our mission: Bringing practical business and technical intelligence to today's structured cabling professionals

For more than 30 years, Cabling Installation & Maintenance has provided useful, practical information to professionals responsible for the specification, design, installation and management of structured cabling systems serving enterprise, data center and other environments. These professionals are challenged to stay informed of constantly evolving standards, system-design and installation approaches, product and system capabilities, technologies, as well as applications that rely on high-performance structured cabling systems. Our editors synthesize these complex issues into multiple information products. This portfolio of information products provides concrete detail that improves the efficiency of day-to-day operations, and equips cabling professionals with the perspective that enables strategic planning for networks’ optimum long-term performance.

Throughout our annual magazine, weekly email newsletters and 24/7/365 website, Cabling Installation & Maintenance digs into the essential topics our audience focuses on.

  • Design, Installation and Testing: We explain the bottom-up design of cabling systems, from case histories of actual projects to solutions for specific problems or aspects of the design process. We also look at specific installations using a case-history approach to highlight challenging problems, solutions and unique features. Additionally, we examine evolving test-and-measurement technologies and techniques designed to address the standards-governed and practical-use performance requirements of cabling systems.
  • Technology: We evaluate product innovations and technology trends as they impact a particular product class through interviews with manufacturers, installers and users, as well as contributed articles from subject-matter experts.
  • Data Center: Cabling Installation & Maintenance takes an in-depth look at design and installation workmanship issues as well as the unique technology being deployed specifically for data centers.
  • Physical Security: Focusing on the areas in which security and IT—and the infrastructure for both—interlock and overlap, we pay specific attention to Internet Protocol’s influence over the development of security applications.
  • Standards: Tracking the activities of North American and international standards-making organizations, we provide updates on specifications that are in-progress, looking forward to how they will affect cabling-system design and installation. We also produce articles explaining the practical aspects of designing and installing cabling systems in accordance with the specifications of established standards.

Cabling Installation & Maintenance is published by Endeavor Business Media, a division of EndeavorB2B.

Contact Cabling Installation & Maintenance

Editorial

Patrick McLaughlin

Serena Aburahma

Advertising and Sponsorship Sales

Peter Fretty - Vice President, Market Leader

Tim Carli - Business Development Manager

Brayden Hudspeth - Sales Development Representative

Subscriptions and Memberships

Subscribe to our newsletters and manage your subscriptions

Feedback/Problems

Send a message to our general in-box

 

Best's Market Segment Report: MGA Premiums Showed Double-Digit Growth for Fourth-Straight Year in 2024

Year-over-year premium generated through managing general agents (MGAs) and other delegated underwriting authority enterprises (DUAEs) grew by 15% to $89.9 billion in 2024, a fourth consecutive year of double-digit percentage increases, according to a new AM Best report.

The Best’s Market Segment Report, “MGA Premiums Show Double-Digit Growth for a Fourth Consecutive Year,” notes that National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) reporting regulations require that companies disclose individual MGA premium data only for those MGAs whose premium constitutes more than 5% of the risk-bearing entity’s policyholder surplus. The number of unique MGAs that met the threshold for their premium to be reported and considered for this report exceeded 700 – about 100 more than the previous year. However, market research indicates that the total number of MGAs operating in the U.S. market exceeds 1,000. The growth in the number of MGAs can be partly attributed to new market entrants with expertise in niche markets, which is to insurers with capacity and appetite for specialty risks.

“The premium momentum by MGAs writing specialty commercial lines of coverage shows no sign of slowing down despite average account pricing moderating or even declining in certain lines such as workers’ compensation, professional liability — particularly directors and officers and employment practices liability — and cyber liability,” said David Blades, associate director, Industry Research and Analytics, AM Best. “With certain market segments experiencing moderated pricing, future growth rates could be impacted.”

According to the report, the number of MGAs that produced $500 million or more in direct premiums written increased to 19 in 2024 from 12 in the previous year, with six of those carriers surpassing the $1 billion DPW mark, doubling the total of three from 2023. The industry also has pivoted toward non-exclusive MGA relationships, growing to an estimated 57% of U.S. property/casualty direct premiums written in 2024 from 33% in 2017, an indication that insurers increasingly value diversified distribution and are leaning on broader networks to expand market reach and hedge underwriting risk concentrations.

“Non-exclusive MGA arrangements give carriers greater flexibility to adjust their portfolios in response to loss trends, pricing cycles, or changes in reinsurance availability, allowing for easier exits by underperforming segments of their portfolio,” said Dawn Walker, associate director, Industry Relation (DUAE).

In response to the DUAE segment’s growth, AM Best introduced its Best’s Performance Assessment in 2022, providing an industry-first tool providing an objective, independent opinion of a DUAE’s ability to perform services on behalf of its insurance partners. AM Best maintains a positive outlook on the DUAE market segment, owing to the resilience of these organizations as they have effectively used strategic investments in technology and talent to expand premiums in the specialty commercial market.

To access the full copy of this special report, please visit http://www3.ambest.com/bestweek/purchase.asp?record_code=354351.

AM Best will host an online market briefing to discuss the DUAE segment on Thursday, June 5, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. EDT. To register, or for more information, please go to the event and registration page.

AM Best is a global credit rating agency, news publisher and data analytics provider specializing in the insurance industry. Headquartered in the United States, the company does business in over 100 countries with regional offices in London, Amsterdam, Dubai, Hong Kong, Singapore and Mexico City. For more information, visit www.ambest.com.

Copyright © 2025 by A.M. Best Rating Services, Inc. and/or its affiliates. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Contacts

Stock Quote API & Stock News API supplied by www.cloudquote.io
Quotes delayed at least 20 minutes.
By accessing this page, you agree to the following
Privacy Policy and Terms Of Service.