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Congress is coming under renewed pressure from both state and federal legislators to reduce the cost of flood insurance and provide greater subsidies for the National Flood Insurance Program.

Congress is coming under renewed pressure from both state and federal legislators to reduce the cost of flood insurance and provide greater subsidies for the National Flood Insurance Program.

Superstorm Sandy will likely become the third-costliest hurricane in U.S. insurance history, but when examining historical storms using todays dollars and exposures, Sandy would fall to the 12th costliest storm, says the Insurance Information Institute.

Telematics devices are helping to reduce accidents and remove unsafe drivers from commercial-auto fleets, but effectively incorporating all of the new data into underwriting is a process still in its infancy, say insurance executives.

Food trucks make up a small but rapidly expanding segment of the restaurant market, producers say.

Fourteen insurers were among 246 companies across 19 industries ranked based on the customers' experience. Click to see the best and worst insurers for customer experience on the 2013 Tempkin Experience Ratings.

Legislation establishing a national catastrophe fund has again been introduced in the House, and has again drawn the ire of perennial critics.

Legislation establishing a national catastrophe fund has again been introduced in the House, and has again drawn the ire of perennial critics.