The acquisition will operate in LIMRA's Windsor, Conn., headquarters as a separate unit called Kehrer-LIMRA, with its own financial structure. Kehrer-LIMRA will continue to sell the benchmarking,

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Speaking to reporters here at the National Press Club, Mr. Racicot unveiled a series of proposals the AIA believes are necessary to better protect homeowners from natural catastrophe risk and better a

Among the measures being proposed by the AIA, which were unveiled today are stricter building codes that are strongly enforced, the inclusion of hurricane risk in land use planning, increased use of a

Darwin Professional Underwriters Inc. today announced the launch of a new Web site dedicated to educating agents, brokers and commercial insurance purchasers about technology and information liabiliti

Almost a year after it was struck by Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana's economy is in desperate shape, but conditions for that state and Mississippi should improve as insurance claims payments and $107 bi