WASHINGTON--Reimbursement rates for selling crop insurance policies would be reduced and anti-rebating laws tightened under a compromise measure extending farm subsidy programs expected to be passed b

The overwhelming 92-6 vote on the Flood Insurance Reform and Modernization Act of 2008 extends the program until 2013 and pays off the $17.5 billion debt the program ran up in settling claims from Hur

The U.S. Senate vote expected this week on legislation reauthorizing and reforming the National Flood Insurance Program--without adding wind coverage--will strengthen the insurance industry's hand in

WASHINGTON--The Senate late Thursday passed an amendment to legislation extending and reforming the National Flood Insurance Program, giving a consumer advocacy official in the Federal Emergency Manage

WASHINGTON--In a breakthrough, the Senate leadership is clearing the decks for consideration of legislation intended to reform and reauthorize the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) as early as Tu

The battle lines began to take shape last week over legislation to create a federal insurance "information office" within the Treasury Department, in what promises to be a tough fight over what might

The justices heard oral arguments in Metropolitan Life Insurance Company et al. vs. Wanda Glenn, a case involving questions about a benefits determination made by a company that served both as the ins

In dispute is whether workers over age 40 who challenged their dismissal must make their case, or should the company which dismissed them during an involuntary reduction in force have the burden of pr