Risk Management

A growing number of workers' comp carriers are refining their underwriting and pricing approaches by data-mining their own systems along with external sources to transform their business.

Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., said he is withholding support of financial services regulation because he fears it could unnecessarily regulate insurers.

With credit scoring approaches to underwriting and pricing increasingly coming under attack across the nation, insurers need to supplement their techniques with new types of analysis, two actuaries said at a seminar.

The Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund has issued its fiscal year 2008-2009 annual report.

The Obama administration has made clear it will support the Senate version of a financial services reform bill as the measure appears to be nearing a floor vote.

American International Group this week in SEC filings said federal salary restrictions prevent it from being competitive in a defense of the millions it pays management.

The global insurance industry, which has seen several years of pricing increases and profitability, has entered what can best be described as a soft market.

Two insurance industry groups said they will hold a conference on April 21 in East Elmhurst, N.Y. to identify the scope of fraud in New York State, and its impact on consumers and potential reforms