Personal Lines

A showdown over the future role of State Farm captive agents in servicing flood-insurance policies is shaping up in Congress.

Insurers challenged the results of a report from the Massachusetts Attorney General that questions the state's relatively new auto insurance "managed competition" system.

Back in January, a top broker said we were entering our "first 'invisible' hard market," with price hikes hidden by shrinking insurable exposures. NU Editor Sam Friedman examines how that prediction played out in his blog at www.NUSamSoapBox.com.

Was the stubbornly soft market, reform efforts on health care and financial services regulation or developments at AIG the biggest p&c news story of 2009? Go to www.property-casualty.com to respond to NU's Reader Poll.

What were the top-10 property and casualty insurance news stories in 2009? NU Editor Sam Friedman unveils his list and asks readers to weigh in with their picks on his blog at www.NUSamSoapBox.com.

Will insurers ever be able to project the positive image it has of itself to the public at large, wondered NU Associate Editor Mark Ruquet after attending an industry love fest honoring Joe Plumeri of Willis.