James M. Loy, co-chair of the organization, who is a retired Coast Guard admiral and former deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said Louisiana faces a two-pronged problem wit

Florida Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, the state insurer of last resort, said it received more than $168 million from the Internal Revenue Service as part of an agreement declaring Citizens'

Two-thirds of the impaired companies came from either the Poe Financial Group or the Vesta Group. "Going into the 2004-2005 hurricane season, these groups were too vulnerable because of rapid growth a

WASHINGTON--Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., who has leveled his legislative guns at the insurance industry, is deciding whether to roll out the legal artillery for a courtroom battle with State Farm Insuranc

A proposed State Farm class-action settlement for Mississippi homeowners with Hurricane Katrina claims was rejected by a federal judge yesterday who said the cases involved were too different to be lu

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners' proposals to create a new database of insurance industry market conduct information have raised confidentiality concerns from industry representati

In a review of the results of 16 companies, Benfield said most companies recouped their hurricane losses from 2005 and reported group net income of $11.6 billion in 2006 compared with a loss of $2.1 b

Other topics to be discussed will include correlations of evolving hurricane activity and the impact on the insurance industry, alternative risk finance vehicles for the insurance industry, a variety