Property-casualty insurers reported an awesome year for 2006, with the industry-wide combined ratio coming in at a stellar 92.4, fueling a 44 percent jump in net income. Normally, that would be good n

NU Editor In Chief Sam Friedman got an earful from a limo driver while being driven from the airport to deliver a speech on the industry's image at a plush Florida resort, hearing how the cost of insu

A global market intelligence firm is charging that the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America opposes federal regulation for fear a national oversight system would facilitate more Web

After challenging the propriety of agents accepting trips to fancy resorts paid for by insurers as incentive compensation, NU Editor In Chief Sam Friedman was hammered by readers who defended the cont

Property-casualty insurers reported an awesome year for 2006, with the industry-wide combined ratio coming in at a stellar 92.4, fueling a 44 percent jump in net income. Normally, that would be good

The softening commercial insurance market might still be a lot more rational than people think, given the results of a recent survey of risk managers who read National Underwriter, who indicate that

The large majority of risk managers don't believe their firms have benefited after major brokers stopped accepting contingency fees following probes into bid-rigging and account steering, a National

Sen. Trent Lott pulled an interesting gambit this week during a hearing of the Senate Commerce Committee, trying to drive a wedge in the insurance industry on his call to revoke McCarran-Ferguson's