FERMA conference highlights growing importance of risk management in complex global business environment The insurance industry’s “traditional model” has become...
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Stock Prices: Commercial lines insurers’ stocks have been relatively flat in 2007. Chubb Corp. (NYSE:CB) posted the largest gain at...
U.S. property/casualty insurers are expected to pay homeowners and businesses $6.5 billion for 2007 property losses from 23 catastrophes —...
New research on the link between the formation of hurricanes in the Atlantic basin and U.S. landfall activity suggests that...
As insurance companies face larger, more frequent catastrophe losses, they are increasingly playing hardball with their insureds. Hurricanes, wildfires, tornadoes,...
In recent 2007 year-end studies, both Corner-stone Research and NERA Economic Consulting documented how the subprime-related litigation wave drove an...
Insurers defend recent years’ profits, deny allegations and call national consumer group’s report ‘fatally flawed’ A national consumer organization has...
Mississippi’s new Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney says he is working with lawmakers and state wind pool officials to lower rates...
22 The number of Mississippi lawsuits stemming from Hurricane Katrina damage settled by State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. The...
The best crisis plan in the world is useless if it sits on a shelf. A company’s employees — from...