NICB reports a 58-percent increase in QCs in Florida in the past year alone. The number of staged/deliberately caused accidents in Tampa has lept 290 percent.

New York's Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice announced that a sweep targeting county residents who steal undeserved workers' compensation and insurance benefits has resulted in the arrest of six people involved in fraud.

Officials say the worst of the Schultz fire, burning just four miles north of Flagstaff, Ariz., is over, as firefighters are in the mop-up phase.

Bermuda-based Catlin Group Limited will establish a reinsurance company in Switzerland to expand its European-based reinsurance business, the company announced.

There are signs of tort inflation in 2010 and 40 percent of companies anticipate it, said the Insurance Information Institute (I.I.I.) in a recently released report.

Because of the country's position as the leading captive domicile and one of the world's largest insurance markets, Aon said it has launched Global Risk Consulting Bermuda here, as part of Aon Insurance Managers (Bermuda) Ltd.

Tropical Storm Alex was strengthening in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday and has caused the evacuation of a number of oil production facilities.

MedMal Direct bypasses the agency system and goes direct to the consumer