A risk consulting firm said it is offering a free benchmarking checklist that employers can use to make a case for lower workers' compensation insurance rates by measuring their efforts to improve wor

The firm, which did not disclose the purchase price, said Dill, Joyce & Thresher in Avon, Conn., and the Kernan Agency in Windsor, Con., have combined annualized revenues of approximately $4.6 million

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services has increased its scrutiny of mortgage insurer Financial Guaranty Insurance Company, placing its "double-B" financial strength rating on CreditWatch with negative im

Joe Plumeri, Willis's chairman and chief executive officer of Willis Group Holdings Ltd., said today his firm's $2.1 billion acquisition of Hilb Rogal & Hobbs Company will double its North American re

Two major brokerages--Willis Group Holdings Ltd. and Hilb Rogal & Hobbs Company--announced Sunday they will combine forces in a transaction that Willis said will "double Willis's North America revenue

Indeed, since 2005, insurers have become more capable of absorbing a catastrophic event, thanks to better management of their risk concentration, as well as development of more efficient

Bermuda faces a number of threats to its supremacy as a global insurance center, including a potentially "catastrophic" challenge in Congress to its relative tax advantage, the U.S. consul general

New law raises bar to hike homeowners premiums, while freezing Citizens'