Now that a key member of Congress has introduced a bill creating an interim Office of Insurance Information, does that make an optional federal charter inevitable? Not as long as the industry itself r

While Congress rushed to reform the insurance industry following mishandling of Hurricane Katrina claims, federal lawmakers were oddly silent this week when two of the legal profession's highest-profi

They say the more things change, the more they remain the same. That certainly holds true for insurance, according to Editor In Chief Sam Friedman, who, when looking over old issues of NU from 1985, s

It's easy to sell risk management in a hard market, but when premiums start to plummet, it takes a truly disciplined and even courageous agency to walk away from prospects who only want quotes for the

The May 5 National Underwriter cover story--"Should Illegal Aliens Get Workers' Comp?"--generated quite a stir with its image depicting an Hispanic man in a wheelchair, holding both an American and Me

The Scruggs Katrina Group filed a federal lawsuit in Mississippi today accusing State Farm, an engineering firm and an adjusting concern of a racketeering conspiracy it alleges had defrauded a group o

WASHINGTON--Sarbanes-Oxley regulations have caused companies to take a more risk-averse track, focusing on building their cash reserves rather than developing new products, according to a professor at

WASHINGTON--The president of the American Insurance Association plans to urge Congress Thursday "to act as quickly as possible" on legislation extending the Terrorism Risk Act so that the new program i