Mr. Houghton was previously group finance director of RBS Insurance and was also group finance director of Ulster Bank, another subsidiary of RBS. He began his professional career as an accountant at

In remarks at an April 4 Edgewater, Miss., Rotary Club luncheon reported by the Gulfport Sun-Herald, Sen. Lott also said insurance representatives in Washington have been "surly" over his legislative

The controversy stems from a letter the CFA sent to Congress asking it to bar insurers involved in the "Write Your Own" flood coverage program from using "anticoncurrent causation" clauses in their

National Underwriter has launched a national award program to recognize companies that do an outstanding job managing their workers' compensation risks--both to lower costs and get people back on the

Legislation creating catastrophic savings accounts--which would be comparable to Health Savings Accounts, allowing homeowners to put money aside tax-free to prepare for the financial impact of a major

The plaintiff class, which includes dozens of large commercial customers, municipalities and individuals that did business with the brokers and insurers between 1994 and 2005, has accused the

Paris-based reinsurer SCOR has offered to buy rival Converium Holding AG in a deal that values the Swiss company at $2.6 billion. The offer resembles one made in February that has been resisted by

CDS Business Mapping, an online hazard mapping service, has added a new storm surge report to its RiskMeter Online real-time, natural hazard risk report service. Currently, this report is available