FirstBest Systems, Inc., has launched a new Web site in conjunction with a news portal and interactive forum for relevant and timely information about collaborative underwriting in insurance.

SCOR said it is combining its U.K.-based property and casualty treaty reinsurance, P&C specialty lines and life reinsurance operations into one new office at10 Lime Street in London.

StoneRiver, a provider of technology and strategic solutions for the insurance industry, has expanded its long-standing relationship with FICO, a provider of analytics and decision management technology.

AlphaStaff Group, Inc., of Ft. Lauderdale has executed an agreement with Selective Insurance Group, Inc., to acquire its Sarasota, Fla.-based PEO subsidiary, Selective HR Solutions, Inc.

Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration recently previewed the first phase of two new Internet-based programs for storing personal health records -- Florida Health eBook and My Florida eBaby Book.

The New York Insurance Association announced that Richard J. Zick, president and chief executive officer of Utica First Insurance Company, was elected NYIA chairman at the association's annual meeting last week in Latham, N.Y.

New York State's top insurance regulator has told insurance executives that upholding the public's right to know requires new rules for disclosure of agent compensation.

U.S. insurance executives in the U.S. believe that increased regulation will both help and hurt their industry, according to a global survey by a consulting firm.