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Looking to lead by example, Risk and Insurance Management Society President Terry Fleming urged his members to "walk the talk" and emulate his practice of prohibiting brokers from accepting any contingent commissions on his account.

A father and his son surrendered at the Santa Clara County, Calif. Sheriff's Office in connection with an allegedly fraudulent auto insurance claim.

Carole J. Banfield was named Insurance Woman of the Year by the Association of Professional Insurance Women.

Independent agencies are invited to enter the 2010 Commercial Insurance Agency of the Year Award program, run by National Underwriter and its sister publication, American Agent & Broker, with entries due by July 1.

Mario Vitale, Zurich Global Corporate chief executive officer is the recipient of the Boys Hope Girls Hope of New York 2010 BHGH Vision of Hope award.

U.S. commercial property and casualty insurance premiums and corresponding rates were down 4 percent last month, but an uptick is coming for energy rates, an insurance exchange executive predicted.