The debate over skyrocketing gas prices and what impact, if any, that should have on auto insurance rates demonstrates that both oil and insurance are industries plagued by a glaring lack of understan

Will those stubbornly lugging around piles of paper to Lloyd's and other traditional insurance markets be replaced by more efficient, tech-savvy capital market players who sip Starbucks coffee while t

In one of the most honest and productive exchanges ever between insurers and regulators--at least in public--one group of panelists at a recent industry gathering talked back to the members of a subsequ

Health care reform proposals pitched by Democrats now running for the White House echo a universal insurance plan introduced by Republican President Richard Nixon back in 1971, recalls NU Editor In Ch

Have property insurers become too dependent on computerized catastrophe models, as the pioneer of cat modeling suggests, and if so, what is the alternative, given the potentially huge exposures they f

Is it time for insurers to write flood endorsements into their policies, if consumers want them to, and are willing to pay for the added coverage? As long as actuarially-sound rates are permitted to b

A recent article in The New York Times with the alarming headline that "More Americans Are Giving Up Golf" indicates that people are so tied to their computers, they can't or won't take the time to le

Just when you think Marsh might be getting its act together in its quest to overcome the fallout from bid-rigging and contingency fee abuse scandals, its CEO, Brian Storms, suddenly takes a hike or is