The Bush administration wanted the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act to quietly expire last year, and only grudgingly went along with a two-year extension. The argument that another catastrophic attack
In this series, the Iconoclast has been exploring terrorism and its potential targets, as well as short-term and long-range methods of addressing the risk. In this final part of the series, he
Five major insurance trade groups are calling for insurance regulators to drop further work on model fingerprint legislation that the National Association of Insurance Commissioners has had in the wor
Mr. Wooley was first named acting commissioner in October of 2000 following the conviction of his predecessor, Jim Brown, on charges of lying to the FBI. He assumed the full duties of the office in Ap
One of my diversions is reading paperback novels--candy for the brain. Over the holidays, I picked up Total Control, by David Baldacci, which first was published almost 10 years ago. The story is predi
One of my diversions is reading paperback novels--candy for the brain. Over the holidays, I picked up Total Control, by David Baldacci, which first was published almost 10 years ago. The story is
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners has drafted a model act that is designed to provide states with the ability to collect fingerprints of insurance employees and submit the
In his letter to Congress on Dec. 13, J. Robert Hunter, president of the Consumer Federation of America, told lawmakers that the American Academy of Actuaries TRIA Subgroup "is not independent" from
The model, titled the "Authorization for Criminal History Record Check" model act, is currently being considered by the Market Regulation & Consumer Affairs (D) Committee of the National Association o
Was Noah Covered?Recent editorials lambasting attempts to bully insurers into paying billions in claims for hurricane-related flood damage excluded in standard homeowner policies prompted ...