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Did the availability of directors and officers liability insurance products contribute to the credit crisis fueled by investment firms that securitized subprime mortgages and other debt obligations?

The House health care reform bill is a "trial lawyer's dream" that could have some degree of a "spillover effect" on the property and casualty industry, according to Insurance Information Institute President Robert P. Hartwig.

Health care reform legislation unveiled by the Senate Democratic leadership last week includes a "public plan" that states could reject.

If penalties proposed for the uninsured under the Senate health reform bill are adopted, they could kill private health carriers, warns NU Editor Sam Friedman in his blog at www.NUSamSoapBox.com.

InsurBanc, the bank founded by insurance agents for insurance agents, said it has joined the American Association of Managing General Agents (AAMGA) as a business services member.

A new study by Harvard University researchers have found that increased computerization at some hospitals has not lowered costs or streamlined administration.