Features

Editor's Note: Madison County moves to "Purgatory" on Hellhole List

Top 10 myths of D&O liability insurance

Underwriters weigh design, construction of offshore oil platforms

Oil drilling risks rise with novice crews

European Insurance Forum puts Ireland in the spotlight

Understanding network risk insurance

Ireland emerges as an insurance powerhouse

Minding Your Business: 'Free agents' and other 2007 management trends

Closing Quote: Are state-backed insurance schemes the wave of the future?

It Figures: It Figures

Declarations: Declarations

Departments

Currents

• Mo. Court dismisses homeowners' lawsuits alleging discrimination
• Most Ill. medical malpractice cases settle before trial, Justice Department report says
• Ill. Vioxx verdict helps Madison County shed pro-plaintiff reputation
• Ill. Country Financial enters Chicago market, adds Fisher as director
• Sen. Lott wants 'plain language' requirement enforced by Feds
• State Auto completes purchase of Beacon Insurance Group in Texas
• Small London company uses computer archive to help find stolen art
• Mentoring process is at the core of new producer development
• Top 10 data loss disasters in 2006
• Bipartisan flood insurance 'modernization' bill boosts borrowing, maximum limits
• A.M. Best cites 15 P/C insurers as financially impaired in 2006
• Study claims U.S. 'tort tax' amounts to $865 billion cost each year
• Insurers advise Congress private markets should handle most disasters
• Study: homeowners more volatile than private passenger auto
• Judge rules Spitzer suit may continue; Liberty Mutual not giving up fight

Fraud Roundup

• Fraud Roundup

New Markets

• My New Markets

Newsbriefs

• LLOYD'S SURVEY AGAIN NAMES 'MANAGING THE CYCLE' AS CHIEF CONCERN

People & Places

• People and Places