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The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., will seek to improve driver safety among its insureds by working with an outside vendor committed to using technology to improve driving behavior.

Boston-based insurer Plymouth Rock Assurance Corp. named Keith Jensen to the newly-created position of chief marketing officer.

Insurance agents and brokers should focus on the medical loss ratio in the healthcare reform legislation because it will determine their future commissions, a healthcare law and policy expert says.

Proposed cuts in the crop insurance program are sending alarms through the insurance industry for both underwriters and agents.

Captive owners will share their insights and perspectives at the Captive Insurance Companies Association's annual conference, March 7-9, at the Omni Orlando Resort at ChampionsGate in Orlando, Fla.

The Missouri Department of Insurance is recommending workers' compensation loss cost rates be cut by 8.1 percent, significantly below the 1.9 percent recommendation from the National Council of Compensation Insurance.

Western National Insurance Group of Edina, Minn., said it has completed its purchase of Titan Property & Casualty Insurance Company.

A new study by the bipartisan Congressional Budget Office almost doubles its earlier estimate of the reduction in cost of medical liability insurance through a common package of tort reforms.