ORLANDO, FLA.--Reacting to the U.S. Treasury Department financial reform blueprint calling for an optional federal charter for insurers, one state insurance commissioner said she would be contacting ev

ORLANDO, FLA.-- Expressing concern that the annual filings will become a catchall, insurers are resisting a plan by the nation's insurance regulators to have market conduct reports become a part of car

Rating agencies are evaluating yesterday's announcement that Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company has offered to take Nationwide Financial Services private by purchasing all its listed shares for $2.2

State legislators and regulators--often at odds over just who is in charge of insurance lawmaking and how model laws are crafted--have been burying the hatchet and showing a new spirit of amity lately,

Wolfgang Strassl, head of the divisional unit of the life and health division with Munich Re, Munich, Germany, said there will be a broader framework in which capital markets, reinsurers and direct wr

Wolfgang Strassl, head of the divisional unit of the life and health division with Munich Re, Munich, Germany, said there will be a broader framework in which capital markets, reinsurers and direct wr

At issue are the pros and cons of proposed fair value insurance accounting standards being weighed by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), London, which could be taken up by the Financ

Attendees at the spring meeting of the National Conference of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL) here and the tempo of discussions at sessions suggest that the threat of an optional federal charter for ins