David S. Charlton, executive vice president for United States Liability Insurance Group in Wayne, Pa.--a member of Berkshire Hathaway--shared some of his insights into marketing and judging the

A total of 699 Gulf Coast homeowners filed suit in federal district court last week claiming that State Farm denied many Hurricane Katrina claims without truly investigating whether home damage was

Although Hawaiians concede they have some work to do in making their regulations more in line with the rest of the country, the Aloha State's chief overseer says the goal is to make Hawaii a global

The American Association of Managing General Agents is entering into an exclusive licensing arrangement with the Chartered Insurance Institute in London to train the association's members to do

Following a breakdown in settlement negotiations, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer filed a civil lawsuit against Liberty Mutual, alleging that the carrier participated in a pervasive

With auto insurers struggling to achieve top-line growth as pricing remains flat, no factor is more critical for healthy underlying margins than keeping loss costs favorable. Indeed, divining such

For the fifth consecutive year, National Underwriter is sponsoring a prestigious award program to recognize independent agencies that do an outstanding job selling insurance and related services,

While insurers weathered last year's record catastrophe losses without sparking a widespread hard market, the chief executive of the Insurance Services Office cautioned that population growth and