Indeed, the headline on NU's April 21 cover remained grim for insurers: "No Light Seen At The End Of The Soft Market Tunnel." The story reported that price-cutting was continuing, with capacity still

The ancient Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times," never resonated more within the property-casualty industry than it did in 2008, when the fallout from the subprime mortgage crisis

With the government already getting into every other industry--from insurance (AIG), to banking (Citigroup), to auto manufacturing--why shouldn't the National Association of Insurance Commissioners get

American International Group wasn't the only casualty of this year's financial market collapse, prompted by the meltdown in subprime mortgages and their related securities. Indeed, no insurance

A number of powerful players took a huge fall from grace this past year, while one iconic figure staged a major comeback in the midst of the financial meltdown that almost destroyed the biggest

On Jan. 7, I peered into my crystal ball for the likely Top-10 Property-Casualty Insurance Stories of 2008. Before you check out my actual picks (see this week's cover story, starting on page 11),

NEW YORK--The property-casualty industry is entering an "invisible hard market" as exposures disappear in a contracting economy, which hides the bottom-line benefits of rising prices, the head of

If you had asked me at the start of the year what would occur first--that American International Group would nearly be destroyed by unwise investments and forced to hand over the bulk of its shares to