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U.S. banks still wrestling with legal troubles springing from the subprime mortgage crisis are lobbying the new consumer agency for...

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in Insurance Journal’s Satire Issue, August 15, 2011. The content in this issue is...

While fee recovery by fire departments is nothing new, an increasing number of local municipalities have begun to charge for...

In a court case that has all sides seeing red, a judge said this week that a French maker of...

DuPont Co. was ordered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Thursday to stop selling and recall its Imprelis herbicide, following...

The three-way bidding war for reinsurer Transatlantic Holdings grew more complicated Thursday as hostile suitor Validus Holdings sued the company,...

The Travelers Companies Inc. in Hartford has appointed Raymond T. Martino as the president of Ocean Marine. Martino is responsible...

Insurance distribution technology vendor Vertafore has appointed Mark Sonders as senior vice president of sales and client services. Reporting directly...

Renewal premiums in the second quarter were essentially flat, suggesting that the soft commercial lines insurance market may be close...