The Group of North American Insurance Enterprises said it has joined a new coalition to work with accounting organizations to reform accounting standards linked to the financial crisis.

The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Germany's integrated financial regulator, the Bundesanstalt f?r Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin).

Government supports for terrorism risk insurance are growing globally, although some countries provide no backing, according to a study by reinsurance brokerage Guy Carpenter Inc.

Staying ahead of the curve technologically is easier said than done if you happen to be an independent insurance agency.

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The average total cost of risk, made up of insurance premiums retained losses and risk management administrative costs, fell 9.4 percent per $1,000 of revenue in 2008, according to a survey.

Property-casualty insurers' reserve adequacy "deteriorated" in 2008, ending with a 0.4 percent--$2.2 billion--deficiency that will hurt their earnings, an investment firm said.

There is something unseemly about the face-off in U.S. District Court between Maurice "Hank" Greenberg and AIG, the company he led for so many years, over ...