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The National Council of Compensation Insurance (NCCI) is recommending Louisiana cut workers compensation costs by 5 percent to reflect greater workplace safety in recent years.

XL Group, the insurer led by CEO Mike McGavick, hired David Miller as senior vice president and head of claims for international property and casualty coverage.

Ryan Specialty Group says wholesale brokers R-T Specialty and Westrope have reached an agreement to merge.

Ryan Specialty Group says wholesale brokers R-T Specialty and Westrope have reached an agreement to merge.

Reversing a trial courts decision, a California appellate court ruled a motor vehicle exclusion in a homeowners insurance policy barred coverage of claims against the insured homeowner and his wife after he accidentally ran over his granddaughter with his pickup truck.

Louisianas state-run insurer of last resort has settled the remaining claims in a class-action lawsuit against its claims handlings after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005.

Central Insurance Companies, a property and casualty insurance group operating in 18 states, produces informative videos to help commercial- and personal-lines buyers, as well as agents, understand insurance policies and coverages.

Hundreds of thousands of Texas homeowners may be poised to share a $117.5 million settlement between the state and Farmers Insurance, more than a decade after the company first clashed with regulators in court over its rates.