E&S/Specialty

Passage of comprehensive financial services reform legislation that for the first time gives the federal government some voice in regulating the property and casualty insurance industry was clearly a major milestone.

This week's edition of National Underwriter is almost entirely devoted to a review of the top-10 stories of 2010 chosen by the editors of the publication.

With more analytical tools and gauges to monitor property and casualty insurance.

Nineteen named storms, 12 hurricanes, and five major hurricanes ranked Category 3 and higher on the Saffir-Simpson scale.

Economists said the recession was over some time last year, but a walk down almost any main street in America reveals a different picture.

It was not hard to select the top two property and casualty insurance stories for 2010.

The National Association of Professional Insurance Agents has described 2010 as a year of "stop-and-starts" for the critical National Flood Insurance Program.

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners decided to pursue its own program for the collection of surplus lines taxes--a bare bones approach that does not tackle the issue of regulatory uniformity.