Articles by Kevin B. O'Reilly

Spurred by a struggling local manufacturing sector which blamed its hard times partly on bankruptcies due to asbestos litigation, Ohio...

The storms and tornado systems of late spring have once again struck cities and towns across the Midwest, with an...

Thanks to a hard market, a light catastrophic claims load and consistent underwriting, a little mutual based out of West...

The CEO of Appleton, Wis.-based SECURA Insurance Cos., John Bykowski, took some time recently to talk with IJ during the...

Our special report on public entities in this issue focuses on the trouble educational institutions are having finding affordable coverage,...

Life insurers have driven the push to federalize insurance regulation in part because of the speed-to-market issue—it takes longer for...

While insurers and lawyers groups have debated the merits of capping medical malpractice awards in the statehouses and on Capitol...

From a small- to mid-sized agency’s perspective, producing public-entity business can seem like a Herculean task. The risks are often...

While insurers and lawyers groups have debated the merits of capping medical malpractice awards in the statehouses and on Capitol...

While insurers and lawyers groups have debated the merits of capping medical malpractice awards in the statehouses and on Capitol...