Climate Change: The potential insurance costs and what's being done

Estimating the potential costs of future weather related events, linked to climate change, is, at best, an inexact science; there are just too many variables. Nonetheless, a picture is emerging that, whatever happens, the costs are likely to be huge. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a report, requested by Congress, titled ...

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Editor's Note: It's time, really

Catching up on climate change

Assisted living and miscellaneous medical facilities spur new growth

Medical professional liability underwriters face new environment

Thinking outside of the box

Minding Your Business: Executive risk exposures producers should know

Idea Exchange: Insider trading plans: A new D&O underwriting concern?

Idea Exchange: Disruptive forces in the insurance industry: Constructive or chaotic?

Idea Exchange: Pet food case raises product recall, 'special property,' new coverage issues

Idea Exchange: Commercial insurers' stock trades down in first quarter; M&As slow as well

Idea Exchange: Agents tell it best -- Do what you love and the rest will follow

Closing Quote: Congress should consider "guiding principles" for TRIEA

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• Ohio's new teen driving law leads some insurers to lower rates
• N.D. Poolman: Agent suspected of taking $700,000
• Car thieves take the bait
• GAO report welcomed
• Commercial property/casualty premiums drop, underwriting relaxes, 1st quarter survey finds
• Key subcommittee chairman favors six to eight-year terrorism insurance extension
• Another report details property/casualty insurers' 2006 profitability, escape from storms
• Study: Obese workers drive up workers' compensation costs

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• STATE FARM TO REDUCE AUTO RATES 6 % IN ILL.

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