In recent 2007 year-end studies, both Corner-stone Research and NERA Economic Consulting documented how the subprime-related litigation wave drove an...
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FERMA conference highlights growing importance of risk management in complex global business environment The insurance industry’s “traditional model” has become...
What will it take to get ahead in 2008? Managing insurance cycles to maintain profitability is a tricky proposition. Higher...
Stock Prices: Commercial lines insurers’ stocks have been relatively flat in 2007. Chubb Corp. (NYSE:CB) posted the largest gain at...
On Jan. 15, Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty abruptly halted a public hearing with Allstate Insurance officials, upset that they...
U.S. property/casualty insurers are expected to pay homeowners and businesses $6.5 billion for 2007 property losses from 23 catastrophes —...
Lighthouse Underwriters, Cooley and Darling Cooley and Darling Insurance Agency Inc., a new retail agency based in Haymarket, Va., has...
As insurance companies face larger, more frequent catastrophe losses, they are increasingly playing hardball with their insureds. Hurricanes, wildfires, tornadoes,...
North Carolina’s automobile insurance rates are among the country’s lowest, but a special pool covering motorists for hundreds of thousands...
$62,000 Los Angeles-based Farmers Group Inc. announced it gave $62,000 to the La Jolla Band of Mission Indians to help...