Bear Stearns analyst David Small said the carrier missed the consensus estimate by six cents per share due to higher than anticipated catastrophe losses and a higher accident-year loss ratio for auto

Skywire Software has acquired Integrated Insurance Technologies (IIT) from SelectQuote, Inc., a life insurance brokerage firm, in an all cash transaction. IIT is a provider of software products and

Julie McPeak, executive director of the Kentucky office of insurance, will chair the NAIC's "A" Life and Annuities Committee. She was vice chair of the committee in 2006. Tim Wagner, director of the N

Under an agreement announced today, the Armonk, N.Y.-based bond insurer will pay a $50 million penalty to the Securities and Exchange Commission, $10 million to investors and $15 million in penalties

Kansas City, Mo.-based insurance broker Lockton Companies, LLC and Los Angeles-based IBIS Advisors Co. said they have entered into a strategic consulting alliance to benefit Lockton clients internatio

The report, "U.S. Reinsurance Renewals at January 1, 2007," published by New York-based Guy Carpenter, notes that while soft market conditions prevail in the primary market, the reinsurance market has

Bank of America securities analyst Tamara Kravec in a note to investors said the contrast will be starker when comparing the storm that struck the United Kingdom and the continent this month to the on

Bear Stearns analyst David Small said a recent conference call that included national and Florida property-casualty industry leaders concluded that reforms passed by the Legislature will squeeze priva