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A survey of small businesses finds these entrepreneurs have more trust in independent agents and their commercial insurance carriers than any other financial services business.

European insurers, on the front line of the region's sovereign debt crisis because of their big exposure to distressed Italian bonds, will be forced to share losses with customers and rely on regulators to be lenient if Italy reneges on its debt.

The deputy speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives is hospitalized after learning that his insurance adjuster's office is under investigation by the FBI for fraud.

More than $2 billion in weather-related losses, and mark-to-market losses in investments, drove a third-quarter net loss of $852 million at Nationwide.

With Wednesdays announcement that LexisNexis was getting out of the insurance software business, the start of another merger-and-acquisition season has begun in the insurance software world. There has been more activity in 2011 than in 2010, and opinions vary over whether 2012 will be an even busier year.

When it comes to natural disasters this has been a "monster" year for farmers, yet few are taking advantage of a federal loan program aimed at helping them recover.