Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty explained why his state is going its own way on reinsurance regulation, given its massive catastrophe exposure and the snail's pace of change at the

Last year, NU spotlighted three organizations for their outstanding approach to workers' comp risk mitigation--2007 Champion Belk Department Stores, along with Honorable Mentions for Rolls-Royce North

It turns out that reports of the political deaths of Sens. Hillary Clinton and John McCain were greatly exaggerated. Indeed, it appears that the Iowa debacle might have been the best thing that could

It was the only light moment in an otherwise grim panel discussion about the difficult year ahead for carriers and their producers. During the Q&A, an audience member complained that insurers had no

Here we go again! Heavyweights Bob Hunter, insurance director of the Consumer Federation of America, is trading blows with Bob Hartwig, president of the Insurance ...

Fitch on Dec.21, 2007 placed the ratings on Rating Watch Negative, where they remain. Fitch noted then that the company has a modeled capital shortfall of $1 billion at the "triple-A" rating threshold

Maybe you've seen those commercials where some worker has many little clones of himself that do various tasks simultaneously--all in the name of multitasking. Surprisingly, however, NU's Ara Trembly as

Standard & Poor's Ratings Service's findings came in an announcement that it has updated the results of its bond insurance stress test, originally published Dec. 19, to incorporate revised assumptions