WASHINGTON--Insurance industry trade groups are taking strong offense to pre-holiday remarks by Florida Gov. Charles Crist that the industry is "breaking its promises" to cut homeowners' insurance rate

The board of the Florida Workers' Compensation Joint Underwriting Association (JUA) removed the four members of its board appointed by the state's largest domestic and foreign carriers Friday as part

WASHINGTON--The American Insurance Association asked the Treasury Department yesterday to consider supporting an optional federal charter for insurers in its study of ways to improve the financial serv

Brian Green, a lawyer with Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge in New York, said the appeal reopens to scrutiny lower court rulings dealing with an agent's duty of care to a customer and the language in the

The U.S. House of Representatives last week unanimously passed legislation reforming regulation of the surplus lines and reinsurance markets. H.R. 1065--the Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act of

The first study, co-authored by H. E. Frech III, a professor of economics at the University of California, was "An Economic Assessment of Damage Caps in Medical Malpractice Litigation Imposed by State

While risk managers used to fear hearing the ring of a telephone, since it could only be bad news or a superior calling them onto the carpet, now it is far more likely for risk managers to initiate th

All things considered, Harry and Louise--that folksy, fictional, middle-class couple that helped kill First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's healthcare reform proposals back in the mid-90s--might very we