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Researchers said by summer's end they plan to start extensive tests on a gigantic new facility that will try to blow apart houses to gauge the effects of hurricane winds.

With concerns mounting over the dangers of driver distraction from cell phones and texting, a new British survey is highlighting perils from GPS devices.

Risk management is a diverse discipline with much to offer the financial services industry, but arrogance will cause the soundest plans to fail, observes Caroline McDonald in her blog. Find out more at www.NoRiskZone.com.

In advance of reporting quarterly results, insurance brokers Arthur J. Gallagher and Aon Corp. have both announced they will pay quarterly dividends to investors.

Hospitals have driven up auto insurers' costs by more than $1 billion with charges for treating accident victims that would normally be paid by Medicare or Medicaid, an industry group study has found.

AAIS, the advisory organization that develops standardized policy forms announced it will offer a by-peril rating plan that will allow insurers to rate homeowners policies on the basis of various causes of loss.