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The nanotechnology industry is increasing in its potential to cure and cause environmental havoc, but can insurers keep up with the risks of a fast-growing market that may generate about one trillion US dollars in the next two years?

The nanotechnology industry is increasing in its potential to cure and cause environmental havoc, but can insurers keep up with the risks of a fast-growing market that may generate about one trillion US dollars in the next two years?

New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), the biggest transportation network in North America, is selling a $125 million catastrophe bond designed to cover the costs of damage from a future storm or hurricane.

Minnesota-based reinsurance broker W.J. Lehrke Co. will merge with Holborn Corp. and fold its operations into Holborns Minneapolis office, taking the Holborn name.

The upward climb in property insurance rates has suddenly reversed course thanks to abundant capacity and continued light catastrophe losses, says Willis North America.

The following three producers may have come into the business for different reasons, but theyre each staying in the industry for the same.