WASHINGTON--Legislation to bar insurers and other companies from deducting legal settlement costs from their taxes would increase "the current, anticompetitive legal cost burden facing U.S. manufacture

Extension of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act is anything but a slam dunk, warns NU Editor In Chief Sam Friedman, who calls on insurers, agents and brokers, and commercial insurance buyers to start

WASHINGTON--The American Insurance Association said it is supporting legislation to update the workers' compensation system for maritime workers, which it calls the nation's most expensive comp program

Michael R. Mead, who helps conduct the survey, said: "Reinsurance was clearly a concern. It showed up on more radar screens than previously--and last year it was big, but it was more diverse this year.

Michael R. Mead, who helps conduct the survey, said: "Reinsurance was clearly a concern. It showed up on more radar screens than previously--and last year it was big, but it was more diverse this year.

Meanwhile, there is legislation in the House, introduced earlier this year, which would complement the proposed compact by allowing the broker to pay the premium to the home state of the insured and l

The Zurich, Switzerland-based company announced today that it intends to form three legal entities based in Luxembourg to serve as underwriters of most of its European reinsurance and insurance busine

The measure, worked out by the governor's office with the legislature and representatives from business and labor, has been welcomed by insurance interests, who have at the same time cautioned that ma