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Last month, as we entered the heart of the 2007 hurricane season, several ideas for insuring catastrophic storms began forming like tropical depressions off Cape Verde. Whether any coalesces into a lasting solution for the insurance industry's

A recent decision by Florida insurance regulators to reject Risk Management Solutions' short-term catastrophe model illustrates the controversial nature of the science of prediction.

Factors unique to comp make it hard for underwriters to get a handle on exposures

The analysis released today by Moody's Investors Service also said that for investors in catastrophe-focused carriers and alternative risk-transfer vehicles, there is promise of good returns after low

An irate policyholder bursts into an insurance agency waiving a policy and demanding why their premiums have skyrocketed over the past year. In recent months this has become a common scenario that

"The true fallout will occur in 2006 when the industry will be forced to determine its next steps," said Chris Shea, national director for the property-casualty division of Ernst & Young Insurance and

The National Life Insurance Company has chosen the Retirement Road Map sales system from Impact Technologies Group, Inc., for the carrier's national field representatives, supplying them with a retire

A new service from ISO's LOCATION geographic information system is available to assist insurers in managing their exposure to natural catastrophes, which will help them make profitable underwriting