During a week that had an abundance of news stories directly impacting property and casualty insurers, NU's editors had a choice to make regarding what to feature on the cover of this edition.

Modelers have been estimating insurance losses related to tornado devastation in several states, (page 12). We had reports from the biggest annual gathering of risk managers (page 8), and brokers weighed in on long-awaited upticks in commercial-insurance pricing. In addition, insurers and reinsurers continued tallying first-quarter earnings and the impact of the Japan earthquake (pages 30 and 34).

But after President Obama announced the death of Osama bin Laden to the nation late on Sunday, May 1, these topics seemed to fade into the background.

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