It's time for independent agencies that do an outstanding job selling insurance and providing risk management services for their clients to prepare their entries for the National Underwriter 2009 "Commercial Insurance Agency Of The Year" award program.

Insurance business process outsourcing is expected to increase 67 percent by 2013 on a global basis, primarily from growth outside of North America and the United Kingdom, according to a Celent, a Boston-based financial research and consulting firm.

While everyone and their grandmother was getting in a lather about AIG paying $165 million in retention bonuses to its notorious Financial Products unit, there ...

Today's business climate is definitely challenging. The dizzying pace of change brought on by plummeting sales figures

VERTEX, Inc., a provider of services and software to the insurance and financial services industries, has announced the release of a strategic upgrade to its VTXml product suite, which produces and

ACORD has created a new designation program for standards implementers and the opening of enrollment for its first examination. The designation is called the ACE, or ACORD Certified Expert, and the

Kevin J. Cawley has joined Valiant Insurance as SVP-Chief Actuary. Cawley most recently served as the Chief Actuary for Liberty International Underwriters- North America, where he was responsible for managing the actuarial staff in the US and

Connecticut's Insurance and Real Estate Committee has rejected two bills that insurance trade groups contend would have had an adverse affect on consumers in the state. The bills, SB 763 and SB 6444 were rejected by the committee last Thursday.