NEW ORLEANS--The commercial insurance industry continued to experience an overall decline in total cost of insurance coverage last year, according to data released today by the Risk and Insurance Manag

The session, Meet the Insurance Press, at the annual conference of the Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS), was sponsored by National Underwriter. Panelists were Regis Coccia, editor,

Offering their views were: Regis Coccia, editor, Business Insurance; Bill Coffin, director of publications and publisher of RIMS' Risk Management Magazine; and John A. Roberts Jr., editor-in-chief of

After years of lobbying by players in the alternative risk-transfer market, the House Financial Services Committee recently asked the American Risk Retention Coalition to draft legislation expanding

Sept. 11, 2001 changed the way major commercial property claims were adjusted by many insurers, initiating a new team approach, but the method has proven more cumbersome in the aftermath of

The new legislation brings Arizona in line with other leading domestic domiciles, said Richard P. Marshall, a director of the AzCia, and also president and chief executive officer of NBIS Captive Mana

Duncan C Ellis, managing director, property and international practice with Marsh in New York, made his comments earlier this week during a Web seminar titled, "Preparing for the 2007 Hurricane Season

The newest arrival is a medical malpractice insurer. Vermont Deputy Insurance Commissioner Len Crouse said medical captives were a major trend a few years back, but the state is being used as a captiv