It has the ability to write business in 130 countries and has direct operations in 27 countries.

About 4,500 brokers in the state now write business solely through the Joint Underwriting Association, he said.

He said companies "would be loathe to write new business in a state where they have political rate-making."

Lenders' keenness to write business has seen mortgage rates sink below base rates.

"Four will not write new business for us, and two will write, but on a quota basis."

Quinn Direct, an Irish novice driver specialist, has also begun writing business again.

"I spend a great deal of time here, writing or doing business, and I like to keep it very free of any distraction."

It faced significant financial difficulties in 2008 which affected its ability to write new business.

The forefront of the top sports business, from the sports writing business to the broadcasting rights business.

She has written numerous business and journal articles, but her fiction works have been the most commercially successful.