The chief executive of a reinsurance brokerage firm has urged a trade group to look into the creation of a capital pool for expanding Risk Retention Groups.

It was quite an honor sitting next to Charlotte Spencer--widow of Robert Spencer, the pioneer in risk management for whom the Spencer Educational Foundation is named.

With health care facilities under increasing pressure to cut costs thanks to insurance reform initiatives and the impact of the recession, loss control programs to contain workers' compensation claims are more critical than ever.

Insurance executives polled at a conference see their companies performing above general market expectations in 2010, but their overall industry view for the near future is less positive.

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The California wildfire outside Los Angeles, which threatened 12,000 homes, burned only 89 residences thanks to an absence of strong winds, AIR Worldwide, a catastrophe modeling firm said.

The nation's insurance regulators announced today that they are proposing their own draft measure to Congress modernizing state reinsurance regulation.