In today's blog entry, NU Editor In Chief Sam Friedman demands that presidential candidates from both parties explain how they intend to help people afford retirement, health care, college educations

WASHINGTON--A federal lawmaker who is one of the insurance industry's most vocal critics in Washington suggested at a Congressional hearing today that insurers with Hurricane Katrina claims had cheated

In the latest MarketScout report general liability rates were found to have dipped the most at 9 percent, while commercial auto declined only 3 percent. Both commercial property and business interrupt

Florida's new property insurance law, enacted last week, includes a provision to allow primary insurers to purchase additional reinsurance from the state catastrophe fund at cheaper prices than they w

RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. said today that the Securities and Exchange Commission has accepted the company's previously announced offer to pay more than $15 million in penalties to settle a probe of

WASHINGTON--The Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers members' annual pilgrimage to Congress this week will see them lobbying for legislation to reform surplus lines and reinsurance markets regulatio

Early loss estimates for homeowners and automobile claims could range between $20- and $24 million, with less than $1 million of that in automobile claims, said Chris Neal, a company spokesman in Flor

Also featured at the meeting are CPCU Society National Leadership Institute courses, which will be held April 19-20. The courses, which are open to nonmembers, aim to help insurance professionals adva