Insurance Technologies Corporation and Agency Data Transfer Services have announced a joint agreement in which the two companies will merge. ADTS now will be part of the Insurance Technologies'

Daytona Beach, Fla.-based insurance broker Brown & Brown said it has reached an agreement to acquire Irving Weber Associates Inc. of Ronkonkoma, N.Y. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Michael G. Cherkasky, former Marsh & McLennan Companies chief executive, was appointed yesterday to take over as chairman of the scandal-scarred New York State Commission on Public Integrity.

Don't create a health care insurance program that cuts us out of the market, insurance agents' and brokers' trade groups have written congressional leaders.

The June 15 deadline is looming as National Underwriter invites entries for its third annual "Award For Excellence In Workers' Compensation Risk Management," sponsored by the National Council on Compensation Insurance.

Officials of a Florida independent agent's trade group hit state legislators today for what they said were actions on insurance putting homeowners at financial risk in the event of a big hurricane.

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) climate risk disclosure survey of insurers is a valid request for information, two regulators said after the concept was attacked by a think tank.

Consumer advocate and former insurance regulator J. Robert Hunter today said in congressional testimony that the federal government should take over capital, surplus and solvency regulation of insurance.