Personal Lines

Two groups have named prize winners for research on topics touching on insurance supply in developing economies, emerging market insurance strategies and Takaful insurers.

A new data aggregator estimated today that the insured loss from January's Windstorm Klaus that struck the heart of Europe was more than $2 billion, a lower figure than modelers have projected.

A National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) climate risk disclosure survey for insurers serves "nakedly ideological ends," an insurance trade group representative said recently in a published paper.

A letter from a congressional committee probing American International Group's use of taxpayers' bailout money reveals that a still-secret company restructuring plan has quietly involved U.S. banking officials.

Liberty Mutual Group reported first-quarter net income of $28 million, a 92.2 percent decrease from the $360 million in net income reported in the 2008 first quarter.

Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. posted a first quarter net income loss of $1.2 billion and said it will respond to the economic downturn by curtailing international sales and changing its variable annuities.