What if a single-payer health care system took the medical component of auto and workers' comp off the hands of casualty insurers buckling under skyrocketing medical claims? That's the question posed

How can contingency fee deals be reconciled with the producer's ethical obligation to clients? That's the latest "Question of Ethics" being posed to NU's readers by our ethics columnist, Peter Kensick

Extension of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act is anything but a slam dunk, warns NU Editor In Chief Sam Friedman, who calls on insurers, agents and brokers, and commercial insurance buyers to start lo

WASHINGTON--Insurers would be required to "commercially disclose" total-loss vehicle information under legislation Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., and two congressmen said they would introduce in the next Co

On the topic of mergers and acquisitions, Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist, said that during the past 12 months there was more than $12 trillion in merger and acquisition activity--equal to abo

WASHINGTON--Financial services firms, including insurers, are seeing Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson off on his trip to China with a White Paper, which asks him to ensure increased market access to Ch

Gallagher Re and the New York Mercantile Exchange today announced they have reached an agreement allowing NYMEX to list future contracts for real-time electronic trading of property damage risk exposu

As a lead investor, the U.K.-based Brit Insurance subscribed $21.1 million, giving it an overall interest of 19.6 percent of the initial $107.7 million capital. The remainder is owned by international