Features

Editor's Note: Down to mirth

2006: Mother Nature and political deals made 2006 an unsettling year

New fire science could overturn arson convictions across the nation

Professional liability in a financial world

2006: a big year for P&C buyers and sellers of all shapes and sizes

TRANSACTION BOOM ... AND BUSTS OF THE PAST YEAR

Changing Reinsurance Rules

Climate change, reinsurance and Lloyd's made worldwide headlines in 2006

Lloyd's Insurers Boost U.S. Presence

Reinsurers Enjoy the Sunshine

2006: Agents fight to keep their pay and insurers wise up to the future

2006: Soft market offers up many new insurance products

New Markets Report

Closing Quote: Global warming represents watershed event for insurance industry

Departments

Currents

• Flooded Maine family blames faulty federal maps
• NFL Steeler Webster's estate awarded disability benefits
• State liquor store, homeowner blamed in N.H. drunk driving death
• Declarations
• It Figures
• Insurers, agents worry Conn. coastal rules could make matters worse
• Mass. closes in on long-awaited transition to auto assigned risk plan
• Spitzer taps investigator Dinallo to be N.Y. insurance chief
• Arson convictions now being questioned
• Report recommends phase-out of Pennsylvania med-mal subsidies
• How to hold your ground against the Internet marketers
• Impact of Enron on directors and officers insurance
• October, November see 29 M&As; stock prices continue to vary

Newsbriefs

• ALLSTATE: NO NEW RISKS IN CONN., N.J. AND DEL.
• MASS. AUTO RATES CUT 11.7%

People & Places

• People and places