Mr. Klingel put bird flu in the realm of nontraditional challenges for the industry, which include the threat of terrorist attacks and a medical care crisis that could lead to new forms of health serv

ORLANDO, FLA.--The property-casualty insurance industry can count on a year of catastrophes inflicting insured losses nearly double last year's record $58 billion, an economist warned at an industry co

ORLANDO, FLA.--The insurance community must seek continuing federal support for terrorism losses because the industry could not pay the claims from a radioactive blast, the leader of a major insurer gr

ORLANDO, FLA.--Job injury frequency has declined more than 30 percent over the past decade and economic forces will continue that trend, an economist with the National Council on Compensation Insurance

The industry's key profitability yardstick--the calendar-year combined ratio--was 102 for 2005, which is a five-point improvement from the prior year and the best result since 1997, according to the N

Steven Wood, the chief economist for Insight Economics LLC of Danville, Calif., made that observation in an interview prior to his appearance here yesterday at the National Council on Compensation Ins

Ellen D. Kiehl, PIANY assistant executive director for government and legislative affairs, warned the group that the insurance industry "is a very psychological market, and once one company makes that

A Louisiana Senate bill that would ban insurer use of credit information to rate customers failed in committee today, but a measure with a more limited credit scoring ban remained alive in the House t