Under the legislation, passed during the recent Special Session of the Florida Legislature, the Office of Insurance Regulation is required to calculate the Presumed Factors which establish how much
State Farm must pay $2.5 million in punitive damages to a couple whose house was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, a Mississippi federal jury ruled yesterday. The panel's finding came hours after U.S. D
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce sees the provisions as so irksome it is mounting a full court press against them, marshaling 19 associations representing business and industry into a group calling itself
ACE Chief Executive Officer Evan Greenberg told an investors conference today that federal rules barring the accumulation of catastrophe reserves need fixing, but tax statutes relating to Bermuda co
ACE Chief Executive Officer Evan Greenberg told an investors conference today that federal rules barring the accumulation of catastrophe reserves need fixing, but tax statutes relating to Bermuda co
Most independent adjusters are responsible for their own lodging and transportation expenses while working catastrophes. Can these expenses be deducted from an adjuster's yearly income?
Scandals involving financial improprieties at such firms as WorldCom, Enron and Arthur Andersen have drawn attention to the corporate governance of for-profit and nonprofit organizations alike. Consider also that the number of nonprofit entities has
Under the IRS' ruling the exemption applies only to nonlife insurance companies with "gross receipts" for the taxable year that do not exceed $600,000, if premiums make up more than 50 percent of gros