An insurance analyst from Bear Stearns has tripled his prior estimate of potential losses to liability insurers stemming from the credit crisis--raising a $3 billion guess he published in September to

The December report--"What's the State of Your State? E&O Risk Uneven Across The Country," published by Guy Carpenter, a New York-based reinsurance broker--provides a state-by-state overview of the thre

An insurance analyst from Bear Stearns has tripled his prior estimate of potential losses to liability insurers stemming from the credit crisis--raising a $3 billion guess he published in September to

"I felt obligated to change my speech. What I talked about was education in Bermuda--and how we are getting Bermudians, we are training them, and we are getting past the work-permit issues and

Bermuda insurers are continuing to pursue strategies to diversify their operations by acquiring or launching facilities offshore, but while most will travel the distance to London or the United

With at least five upgrades for Bermuda property-casualty companies since October 2007, it may appear that a variety of strategies to diversify books of business are prompting A.M. Best analysts to

NEW YORK--Attorneys who defend insurers said the absence of high-profile plaintiff lawyers Mel Weiss and David Bershad from the class-action scene hasn't cut the volume of such lawsuits, but the pair's

Although members of the National Association of Surplus Lines Offices Ltd. didn't pose that exact question on a survey they sent to nearly 20,000 agents last month, that's essentially what they