Congress should concentrate on drafting legislation to reduce systemic risk to the financial system before tackling solvency and consumer protection in the stable insurance sector, the Property

Continuing its efforts to expand educational opportunities for member firms, the National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices, Ltd. announced the launch today of the NAPSLO Executive

When Tap Johnson III, president of TAPCO Underwriters in Burlington, N.C., shared that prediction with NAPSLO Daily, his view of the timing of the return to hard market conditions was typical of

A New York state agents association has asked the state's insurance department to make any mandatory producer compensation disclosure regulation more general in nature to avoid forcing agents to

Time is running out for multi-line agencies to enter the second annual National Underwriter "Agency Technology Achievement Award" program, run in partnership with the ACORD LOMA Insurance Systems

The exceptions state insurance departments are granting insurers reporting their capital and surplus under permitted practices rules will create a level of inconsistency and raise issues of

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's characterization of an optional federal charter (OFC) as a "useful idea" received support today from Joe Plumeri, chairman and chief executive officer of

The company reported an after-tax loss of $542 million in 2008, compared with net income of $5.46 billion in 2007. State Farm said "extraordinary levels of catastrophe losses" adversely affected its