The insurance industry won its second critical victory in three days on Hurricane Katrina-related issues when a federal Appeals Court panel accepted the industry's interpretation of its contract langu

Nationwide Insurance Co. asked a federal appeals court panel in New Orleans to review a lower court decision and find that the anti-concurrent causation language in its Mississippi homeowners policies

The House narrowly passed legislation last week that detractors say would go well beyond reversing a May Supreme Court ruling severely limiting the time employees have to file wage discrimination

Rep. Melissa Bean, D-Ill., and Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., introduced the National Insurance Act of 2007. They said they had won a commitment from the Democratic leadership of the House Financial

The battle over the use of credit scores when underwriting insurance risks is reheating to a fever pitch following the release of a controversial Federal Trade Commission report hailed by the

"We are bound to enforce the unambiguous terms of their insurance contracts as written," Judge Carolyn King wrote for a three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeal for the 5th Circuit in New Orlean

The legislation, "The Commission on Natural Catastrophe Risk Management and Insurance Act of 2007," creates a 16-member panel, to be appointed by the congressional leadership, to study various

A 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel in New Orleans has ruled that standard insurance policy exclusions for water and flood damage prevent Hurricane Katrina victims from recovering damages from