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Total insurance-industry employment grew by over 5,000 jobs in December 2011 compared to November, but Insurance Information Institute President Robert Hartwig notes that the big news is not the month-to-month changes, but rather the recalibrating of current and recent industry employment.
Another year of costly natural catastrophes is causing many insurance industry stakeholders to wonder just how many more unexpected levels of loss they can tolerate.
With Workers Compensation, the big shift is the medical component of costs exceeding indemnity costs. With Supply Chain risk, its the realization that supply and upstream customer chains can be far more fragile than anticipated in a catastrophe. And for food processors, the emerging challenge is a food-safety law that...
The insurance and other industries affected by floods are making a big push to get the Senate to act on legislation reauthorizing the National Flood Insurance Program.
Robert S. Steve Miller, the man who could have become American International Groups president and chief executive officer, is taking a leadership role elsewhere.
Mergers and acquisitions activity should be robust over the next 12 months as a recent survey shows many property and casualty chief financial officers will be looking to acquire a company or block of business, but targets might be hard to come by.
A magnitude 6.7 earthquake that struck the Negros-Cebu region of the Philippines yesterday is not expected to be a major insurance loss says catastrophe modeler AIR Worldwide.