Tropical Storm Emily brushed past Puerto Rico and headed Wednesday toward the Dominican Republic and Haiti, where more than 630,000 people are still without shelter after last year's earthquake.

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While catastrophes took a toll on Flagstone Reinsurance Holdings’ second-quarter earnings, the company’s chief executive says the carrier is seeing signs of premium increases sticking as this year’s renewal rates averaged 9 percent across the board.

The New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance is looking to revise personal-injury protection regulations less than two years after prior reforms made their way out of legal wrangling.

Liberty Mutual says it likely will appeal the preliminary approval given to a $450 million settlement American International Group Inc. reached with companies that alleged AIG underreported premiums to a workers’ compensation program.

Former Republican state representative Tom Grady of Naples will be Florida’s new commissioner of the Office of Financial Regulation.

Because there is no single process appropriate for every board and every company, it is the joint responsibility of the board’s risk leader and CEO to involve the overall board in the ongoing processes of strategic planning and risk management, according to the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA).