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National Underwriter is seeking entries for its fourth annual "Award For Excellence In Workers' Compensation Risk Management," sponsored by the National Council on Compensation Insurance.

Chinese drywall may be getting all the press coverage of late, but an older and more familiar foe continues to plague America's buildings.

In a fall 2009 report from Nexa Advisors, LLC, titled "Business Aviation -- An Enterprise Value Perspective," Warren Buffett said, "Berkshire has been better off by having me in a plane available to go and do deals."

All Web Leads has announced its technology platform and management tools will power a new service from Summit Business Media publications targeted to insurance producers nationwide.

Sen. Chris Dodd, Conn., chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, announced that the committee will start work Monday on financial services legislation that would impose federal regulation on large insurers.

Insurance company executives said insurers have themselves to blame for the prolonged soft market.

The amount of U.S. property and casualty reinsurers' net premiums written last year was flat at $23.9 billion, a survey by the Reinsurance Association of America found.

Validus Holdings, Ltd. said its initial maximum estimate of losses from the recent earthquake in Chile and European Windstorm Xynthia was $300 million.