For European insurers frustrated that "cyber crime" policies have so far failed to find a ready market among sceptical companies, hope may be at hand.

Republican budget-cutters joined Democratic defenders of food stamps to deal a shocking defeat to the $500 billion farm bill backed by Republican House leaders.

Acquisitions make life difficult for the people working within the company doing the acquiring, particularly for a global company that deals with different languages and currencies

Acquisitions make life difficult for the people working within the company doing the acquiring, particularly for a global company that deals with different languages and currencies

Sedgwick President and CEO David A. North shares his comments and observations on a variety of workers compensation issues as a preview of his keynote at the 68th Annual Workers Compensation Educational Conference and 25th Annual Safety & Health Conference.

A Guy Carpenter survey says specialty-lines carriers believe maintaining rate levels and new business production pose the biggest challenges for the insurers over the next year.

Tropical Storm Barry made landfall off the Gulf Coast of Mexico, packing 40 mph winds as it headed west toward Veracruz.

Swiss Re says it declined 23 of 170 business transactions it screened, determining that they failed to meet the insurer's conditions for proper social, economic and environmental behavior.