Risk Management

Congress will see a "major push" on optional federal charter (OFC) legislation in the next session.

Louie Castoria writes on how miscellaneous E&O coverage recognizes that doing business is risky, sometimes in unexpected ways.

Tax credits in the health care reform law designed to offset health insurance premium costs mean that small businesses will be one of the first groups to benefit from the legislation, according to a new report from the Commonwealth Fund.

Florida regulators agreed that non-hurricane losses and increased reinsurance costs warranted a double-digit rate increase for Allstate subsidiaries operating in the state.

Better regulatory uniformity is required globally to help facilitate insurance trade between the United States and its European partners, a panel of insurance officials said.

To say that the U.S. economy is caught between a rock and a hard place would be putting it mildly, meaning commercial insurers will have to fight for every premium dollar while battling to keep their loss ratios under control.

While controversy surrounds the implementation of producer disclosure regulations by the New York State Department of Insurance, associations say they are obligated to prepare agents for the new mandates, like them or not

Ensuring that the NFIP remains in force--at least through a short-term reauthorization--is the priority for property and casualty industry lobbyists as Congress returns next week for what is expected to be a brief but turbulent session.