Market Insights

By 2050, nearly half -- 47.2 percent -- of the country's population will be minorities. (Source: U.S. Census Bureau). And as a result, minority business enterprises are a rapidly growing segment of

When it comes to major changes in the insurance code, they typically follow the same pattern: initially, they are met with some public outcry from consumers that makes its way into the media and

Navigating through ever-growing content in a variety of forms can be as challenging as giving directions to lost motorists who speak a different language. However, yesterday's department-level imaging

Shrinking huge systems by shedding extraneous policyholder data through data conversions projects creates leaner, more efficient databases. Despite the expense and hurdles, these initiatives deliver a

Insurers and reinsurers who believe that the current system of reinsurance arbitration represents a more efficient way of resolving reinsurance claims find themselves at a disadvantage because of nequities and ambiguities in the U.S. system.

Many fire loss experts have relied on pyrolysis in finding that wood can be ignited by long-term exposure to temperatures below the normal ignition temperature of the material.

Within two weeks after Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jay Robert Wooley was quoted as saying that with post-hurricane insurance claims, "Lawyers are going to have a ball; it's got more legal questions than you can imagine."

Insurance is often referred to as a "people business."