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Less than a month into Lance J. Ewings job as a risk manager for Harrahs Entertainment, Hurricane Katrina caused about $1.6 billion in damage to the companys Gulf Coast casinos.

Standard carriers that looked where they normally wouldnt for premium during the soft market are throwing the risk back into the ring for excess carriers.

Consumer advocates and an industry representative disagreed on the competitiveness of the auto-insurance industry after a consumer group released results of an auto-insurance affordability survey.

An 85-square-mile wildfire raging out of control for a week in northern Colorado has destroyed 181 homes, ranking it as the most destructive blaze in state history, fire officials said on Saturday.

The third named storm of the Pacific hurricane season made landfall in Mexico over the weekend, but modeler AIR Worldwide says it does not expect large insured losses from the event.

Insurance companies may pay as much as $2 billion on claims from the deep dents and broken glass to vehicles following a massive hail storm in Dallas, according to the Southwestern Insurance Information Service.