A federal judge refused to let Mississippi jurors consider punitive damages against an insurance company after they handed down a...
Hurricanes News
The state’s new insurance commissioner says Mississippi Gulf Coast residents can expect an insurance rate increase this year. Commissioner Mike...
Should disaster strike and chaos ensue, Nebraskans could be forced to give up their guns, under current law. That’s what...
The National Hurricane Center’s new chief said he would deal with problems behind the scenes and work to boost morale...
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood must testify in a lawsuit filed by State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. that accuses...
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...