David Langdon, vice president with the consulting firm Towers Perrin's reinsurance business out of Hartford, Conn., said that since 2005 insurers have become more prepared for a catastrophic event wit

David Langdon, vice president with the consulting firm Towers Perrin's reinsurance business out of Hartford, Conn., said that since 2005 insurers have become more prepared for a catastrophic event wit

During a conference call today, sponsored by New York-based Marsh & McLennan Companies, the parent of insurance broker Marsh and reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter, Robert F. Howe, global leader of Mars

Meyer Shields, an analyst with Stifel Nicolaus, said in a note that reports from the U.S. Department of Transportation indicate Americans are driving less miles. He speculated that the primary cause o

The report, titled "Market Update," released by the Kansas City, Mo.-based firm, said marine hull insurers believe there were 67 total losses declared in 2006 and that final 2007 figures would bring

With Mr. Albrecht on a panel were Euclid Black, AAMGA incoming president and president of Black/White Associates in Henderson, Nev.; Curtis Anderson, AAMGA president-elect and president of Risk

The past week of killer tornadoes and severe storm damage in the Midwest is still being assessed for insured loss and has not been designated a catastrophe according to the Jersey City, N.J.-based Ins

An insurance broker's survey finds little change in the rate of increase for group clients over the past six months as employers shift more of the cost burden onto their employees, the Council of Insu