Costs Driving Changes, Opportunities in New World of Benefits Brokerage July 24, 2012 By Andrew G. Simpson Group health insurance brokerage is changing but the changes are not primarily due to Congress or the courts. Rather the...
Mining Deaths Down in First Half of 2012 July 23, 2012 Nineteen mining deaths occurred during the first six months of the year, the second-lowest midyear toll ever recorded, federal regulators...
Traffic Deaths Spike 13.5% in First Quarter July 23, 2012 By Joan Lowy Traffic deaths soared 13.5 percent in the first quarter of the year compared to the same period last year, and...
Record Number of Farmers Expected to File Crop Insurance Claims July 20, 2012 By Ben Berkowitz and Tom Polansek The drought ravaging America’s prime farmland is having an unexpected consequence that could shape the future of agricultural finance: in...
RRGs Financially Stable Despite Q1 Underwriting Losses: Demotech July 19, 2012 First quarter 2012 reported financial information indicates risk retention groups continue to exhibit financial stability. RRGs reported a $10 million...
Global Commercial Market Firmed in Q2: Marsh July 18, 2012 Editor’s Note: A previous story on a Marsh report on the U.S. Commercial Market was from 2011 and ran in...
Long Term Care Liability Loss Rate Expected to Grow: Aon July 18, 2012 Long term care liability loss rates and claim severity have reached an eight-year high and are expected to grow steadily...
GM’s OnStar Car Owners Now Able to Rent Out Their Vehicles July 17, 2012 By Andrew G. Simpson General Motors is joining the sharing economy. General Motors announced that its OnStar subscribers can now rent out their idle...
Malpractice Claims at Record Low, Not Driving Health Costs: Consumer Group July 13, 2012 By Andrew G. Simpson The consumer group Public Citizen says that medical malpractice payments in 2011 were at a record low and have fallen...
Workers’ Comp Claims Frequency Was Down 1% in 2011: NCCI July 13, 2012 Workers’ compensation claim frequency declined slightly in 2011, by a modest one percent, after increasing in 2010 for the first...