E&S/Specialty

Property and casualty insurance company mergers and acquisitions activity increased in 2011 by 28 percent over the previous year, according to a report released by Conning Research & Consulting.

A U.S. district-court judge has awarded a group of insurers $9.35 billion after entering a final judgment against Hezbollah in a lawsuit over the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

The 2011 floods in Thailand were the most expensive flooding on Swiss Re sigma records, but a study of exposures in emerging markets around the world shows that other countries may represent even greater flood risks.

The 2011 floods in Thailand were the most expensive flooding on Swiss Re sigma records, but a study of exposures in emerging markets around the world shows that other countries may represent even greater flood risks.

Bolstered by reinforcements, fire crews were focusing Wednesday on building containment lines around the 7-square-mile wildfire that destroyed dozens of homes in the mountains southwest of Denver and may have claimed two lives.

Lloyds says record catastrophe losses led to a loss of more than $800 million for 2011 as the specialty-insurance market experienced the largest catastrophe-claims year in its history.