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In a note to investors, a J.P. Morgan analyst said losses to the insurance industry due to extreme flooding in Australia stand at an estimated $1 billion.

Private commercial companies are using more of their own capital to develop spacecraft to deliver cargo and humans to space, bringing forth new needs for commercial insurance.

The American Bankers Association is calling for "wholesale" overhaul of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), including providing incentives for the private market to assume a greater role.

Magazine editors are notorious for filling January opinion pages with predictions, and NU's editors are up to the task as well.

When reality TV programs first appeared on our television screens, many thought it was just another fad that would not last. Indeed, many more hoped it would disappear to ensure quality broadcast programming.

An executive with Reagan Consulting believes the current rate of merger and acquisition activity over the past five weeks will not be sustained throughout 2011.

In all my years of underwriting contingency and event cancellation business I have never experienced such a diverse range of potential loss circumstances as we faced during 2010.

When Louis Levinson of Argo Group described a recent restructuring of the company's U.S. E&S units to NU late last year, he began with a simple comparison of two organizational charts.